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    Rename fields that are part of a hierarchy

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    jillian_vinetsky on 25 Jul 2018 21:02:48

    Please enable the user to rename fields in a visual that are part of a hierarchy.

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    Jens JK on 06 Jul 2020 00:10:55

    RE: Rename fields that are part of a hierarchy

    Also elements of an automatically generated date hierarchy are not renameable. So we have to extract the values to a different column which we can rename than. But this is too workaround-like.

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    Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:59:04

    RE: Rename fields that are part of a hierarchy

    We are using an Azure Analysis Services (AAS) live connection to Power BI and have this issue here as well. Thanks for considering this! Users should have the same control over hierarchies at the report layer if that hierarchy is imported or stored in a platform layer with a live connection.

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    Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:57:16

    RE: Rename fields that are part of a hierarchy

    This would be very helpful since we use Role playing dimensions and if you use more than one of the dimensions then you don't know which hierarchy the value is representing. I shouldn't need to change my cube due to a limitation of PowerBI.

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    CJ Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:52:04

    RE: Rename fields that are part of a hierarchy

    Can do this in imported data models so why not in a live connect dataset..?
    Able to rename every other field type in live connections, SSAS and Power BI Service