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jhoyt
Regular Visitor
11 years ago
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change column heading

When I select the format editor, I only see "totals" under General and "Color" and "Trans" under Background...there are no other options.  How do I change a column header?
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    I assume you are speaking about the Table visualization in the report section.. You can't change the name of a column within a visual.

     

    You need to change the name of the field you are using in the data set. You can't have column1 be customized for every visualization, it's column 1 in everything...

     

    You can do this in various places.

    Report View - Right click the field in the field list, Rename

    right click the column 

    Data View - Right click in the field list like above, or right click the column name on the table.

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Anonymous
Not applicable
11 years ago

I assume you are speaking about the Table visualization in the report section.. You can't change the name of a column within a visual.

 

You need to change the name of the field you are using in the data set. You can't have column1 be customized for every visualization, it's column 1 in everything...

 

You can do this in various places.

Report View - Right click the field in the field list, Rename

right click the column 

Data View - Right click in the field list like above, or right click the column name on the table.

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CahabaData
Memorable Member
9 years ago

In Power BI Service - with the report in Edit Mode - right clicking on the column/field name does not offer a Rename option.

 

So far in PBIS I am unable to find any method to rename a column.  Sorry to be clueless on this.  What am I missing?

 

I have no problem in PBIDesktop.....