Changing Column Names for App Studio Forms

kelly_tagtow · 2024-10-25T20:48:22+00:00

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First time user of App Studio Forms. After submitting tests to see how the data would be captured I noticed that several columns were named Untitled_Field_x or had names that I'd like to change but can't.

My first thought was that if I copied the final, finished form with all questions properly named and created a new dataset to collect the submissions it would update these column names. It did not. See screenshot below.

Besides starting from a new form, or using Magic ETL to update the column names, is there something I can do within App Studio or the dataset to correct these column names?

Thanks,

Kelly

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art_in_sky

@kelly_tagtow

You can change the name of the column by going to Admin-Governance-Toolkit and select your dataset to edit as shown below. you should be able to change the name of the column here.

kelly_tagtow

Thanks @Arthi Annadi for the suggestion. I had not used that toolkit before, so made the column name changes. Unfortunately there are a couple of issues…which may be related to the App Studio Forms set up.

When I return to the updated dataset, I'm presented with a warning "Missing columns The data powering this DataSet has changed, and some columns are missing. Choose how to fix the missing links to continue using this DataSet. FIX IT". I map the columns and update expecting that to remove the message, but it does not go away.
When using this updated dataset in a new dataflow, the original columns names remain. The new ones are not shown (this could be related to #1 above).