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Hi,
Is there a way to show the Dimension Label instead of the Field in the Selection box(es)? Field Names are rarely very user-friendly, and I assumed that the Label would be used instead...
Thanks,
Chris
I'm not sure if there is a way to adjust the selection-box in Sense but IMO you should use user-friendly fieldnames. This might be applied with a mapping as the last scripting-step in the dashboard-application so that all the development on the datamodels could be done with the origin fieldnames.
- Marcus
There are challenges in showing labels vs fieldnames. Under the covers the selection is always against fieldname. What if a master Dimension is created with two different labels. And the user makes selections against both? And clears one? What should be shown, what should be cleared?
It's been a question with QlikView as well. As Marcus suggested, we seem to have landed with the best practice of naming fields with business names whenever possible.
-Rob
I'm not sure if there was really a design-decision about it because it's a very old feature of QlikView and I think it wasn't really touched since them. The goal of it is to show the selections which are made in the fields - and each field is unique in the whole application but you could use it multiple times in multiple sheets and each one with a different label - which one should be displayed?
- Marcus