Changing field names

user082291

Is there a way to change the naming of a field output.  Our organization names are long and take up a lot of space on a chart.  I would like to shorten the names so they appear cleaner on the chart.  Can this be done in beast mode and can you give me an example.

 

Example: Mount Carmel Health System change to MCHS

I would need to do this with about 20 organization names

 

Thank you

 

 

GrantSmith

Hi @user082291 

 

From what I'm understanding you're asking about renaming the column / field name and not the values in the field itself?

 

You can do this several ways, the first is when editing a card you can select the field displayed in the x-axis/y-axis/series etc section on top of the graph and put a value into the Data Label field. You'd have to do this for all cards though.

 

Another option would be to utilize a Select Column tile and a Magic ETL DataFlow to rename the columns.

 

A third option (if you have access to the beta) is to utilize a DataView and rename the columns in the view itself which would update automatically when the underlying dataset is run which is likely the best option if you have access.