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exceptionull
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8 years ago
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Unable to Set Mapped Field Names to Single Space Character in Table and Matrix

In older builds of Power BI Desktop you could change the mapped field names to " " and they would appear blank in table and matrix visuals.

 

Here's an example using June 2018 - 2.59.5135.781 build:

 

 

Blank Field Naming - June 2018-2.59.5135.781.pbix

Blank Field Naming - June 2018-2.59.5135.781.png

 

Trying to do this in the most recent build (August 2018 - 2.61.5192.601) changes the field back to its original name.

 

Thank you,

Brad Cannon

2 Comments

  • v-qiuyu-msft's avatar
    v-qiuyu-msft
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    Hi exceptionull,

     

    There was a bug in previous desktop where we allow the user to set white space/empty column names.. this has been fixed in the latest Power BI desktop. So what you got is expected in the latest desktop. 

     

    Best Regards,
    Qiuyun Yu 

  • Hi v-qiuyu-msft,

     

    I was afraid you were going to say that :smileywink:

     

    We had to use a bunch of different work arounds for a report we built to get it looking closer to something that was created in Excel, and this was one of them.

     

    You can close this issue, I understand it was a bug.

     

    Thank you,

    Brad Cannon