Change column header names dynamically in a table visual

[mickey2021]

Hello everyone, 

I am trying to find a way to dynamically update the column header names in a tabular table visual as soon as possible. Currently, I have a table called Product and it has a lot of columns where some of their column names need to get dynamically updated every month/quarter. I was able to write some M codes in the query editor to dynamically change column header names there and apply the changes, but I failed to find a way to do the same outside of query editor in the table visual. 

Below is an example of the original table: 

Product Category	Country	Non Shipped Quantity Q1 2021	Non Shipped Quantity Q2 2021	BackOrderQuantity October 2021	BackorderQuantity November 2021
Headset	USA	12	12	3	4
Computer	UK	3	4	2	1

Below is the output of what I am looking for. The last four column headers' name inside the table visual should automatically gets dynamically changed when they gets updated inside the query editor. 

Product Category	Country	Non Shipped Quantity Q3 2021	Non Shipped Quantity Q4 2021	BackOrderQuantity November 2021	BackorderQuantity December 2021
Headset	USA	12	12	3	4
Computer	UK	3	4	2	1

Based on my research, I learned that there is currently no such feature to dynamically change the column header names inside the table visual (please correct me if my understanding is wrong). I also looked into options of using matrix by unpivoting the columns first inside query editor and pivoting them inside matrix in the table. However, in my scenario, I don't think matrix is a doable option for me because matrix can only do one column's pivoting at the same time but I have multiple columns that I need to pivot. 

I also looked into possibility of using Dax or other approaches to handle it but haven't really found a way to handle my situation above. 

May I get some help here to see how I can approach this to dynamically update the column header names, please? 

Thank you! 

[kaisrec]

https://inforiver.com/blog/general/dynamic-column-headers-power-bi/#:~:text=Power%20BI%20currently%2....

[ajinkyacgaikwad]

Please watch this video I made for 
Dynamic Column Names in Table Visual : https://youtu.be/nAypPLYbeb4?si=3d_u_uRcPZBtbeB6

[David_Morris]

Although this is an old post, I found myself here because I want to do something similar. I decided to do it manually by adding a "shape" visual, setting its text to a measure variable I created, setting the effects to have no background and no border, and placed over the top of the column heading that is already there.

A draw back is that the user cannot then click on the column heading to change sort order, but in my case that was not needed, so overlapping another visual over top of the column heading seemed to do the trick visually.

[ajinkyacgaikwad]

Please watch this video 
Dyanmic column names in table visual : https://youtu.be/nAypPLYbeb4?si=3d_u_uRcPZBtbeB6

[V-pazhen-msft]

@mickey2021 

You cannot have dynamic names for a measure or column. But you can have dynamically measures to be displayed in a table visuals. Basically the field will change based on the measure you selected in a slicer. 

This article used a chart but it is the same with table or matrix.

Dynamic Measure Selection in Power BI - Visual BI Solutions

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[ajinkyacgaikwad]

Hi Please watch following video.
Dynamic Column names in table visual : https://youtu.be/nAypPLYbeb4?si=3d_u_uRcPZBtbeB6

[amitchandak]

@mickey2021 , I think the research is correct. There is not dynamic names for measures. As of now only you can have a dynamic table/visual title.

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