topic RENAME Field : Impact on Sheet Objects in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/RENAME-Field-Impact-on-Sheet-Objects/m-p/423250#M562817 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>I was under the impression that the benefit of RENAME FIELD X TO Y; was that any direct references to field X would be automatically changed upon script reload, e.g. if a chart dimension was X, it would now be Y.</P><P></P><P>When I run my script after a rename of an individual field the chart drops the dimension of X.</P><P></P><P>We had an idea to allow users to customize fields via a mapping load XLS and RENAME, but if sheet objects are "broken" in this fashion then the exercise seems futile in scope / impact.</P><P></P><P>Please let me know if this feature has an alternative ?</P><P></P><P>Regards</P><P>Andrew.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:25:38 GMT 2013-03-08T15:25:38Z RENAME Field : Impact on Sheet Objects https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/RENAME-Field-Impact-on-Sheet-Objects/m-p/423250#M562817 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>I was under the impression that the benefit of RENAME FIELD X TO Y; was that any direct references to field X would be automatically changed upon script reload, e.g. if a chart dimension was X, it would now be Y.</P><P></P><P>When I run my script after a rename of an individual field the chart drops the dimension of X.</P><P></P><P>We had an idea to allow users to customize fields via a mapping load XLS and RENAME, but if sheet objects are "broken" in this fashion then the exercise seems futile in scope / impact.</P><P></P><P>Please let me know if this feature has an alternative ?</P><P></P><P>Regards</P><P>Andrew.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:25:38 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/RENAME-Field-Impact-on-Sheet-Objects/m-p/423250#M562817 2013-03-08T15:25:38Z