Reporting - Change the title of a data field or measure

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In this article, we’ll show how to amend the title of a data field or a measure, when it is applied to a Visualisation in Power BI.

The field names in Kallidus datasets reflect the naming of features in Learn. For example, a data field might refer to a Course, Lesson, Event, User, and so on. 

When a field is applied to a report, a report designer may wish to change the visible name for the data field, in order that the purpose of the Visualisation is clear to the report audience. This may be neccessary: because:

• One of the generic names for a field is not meaningful to the report audience
• A custom field is used in the report (and is labelled 'User field 01')
• Filter data by date range

Watch the video below or follow the steps to see how:

Steps to change the title of a datafield or measure

In this example, we'll change the name of a Custom User field in a Table Visualisation.

1. Click to select a Visualisation
2. Open the Visualisations panel
3. Select Build visual:
4. Double click into the relevant field name. The text will become editable. Note that this changes the name of the data field as it appears in the report - it does not change the name of the field in the source dataset:
5. Select Enter or click away from the field
6. Select Save to keep the changes

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