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6 years ago

Update field names in Service

I'd really like to know if there's a smart way to update column names in the service, once they are already being used in reports/dashboards.   So for example, I'd like to remove an underscore from...
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6 years ago

Thanks Gilbert, I suspected that might be the case.  It's pretty disappointing if so.

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6 years ago
Yeah I guess it comes down to planning and making sure that the initial column names you use are consistent with the business requirements.
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    6 years ago

    Planning ahead is all well and good, but the reality is that these things are definitely subject to changing business requirements.

     

    To name one counter-example - Tableau does not have many of Power BI's more sophisticated features, but it at least allows you to make changes to dimension/measure names, and to propogate these changes across all workbooks that use the dataset, without a problem.