is Power BI able to read the DisplayName of manifest?

[AlexMunday]

We are using manifest on top of our entity and load it in Power BI.

The name of our Column is a techical name but we want to use the dispaly name to have a better naming.

{
"name": "CODE",
"dataFormat": "string",
"displayName":"Country Code",
"description":"Unique code for each country used as GUID"
},

It there any way to use the diplay name and the description in Power BI?

Best,

Alexandre Munday 

[AlexMunday]

Yes I am still looking for support on manifest integration with Power BI

[Jimmy801]

Hello @AlexMunday 

then you have to explain your problem better, because I cannot follow you. You posted a text-information, that is json and i showed you how to transform that into a readable record. So I cannot get the point what you are still missing

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[AlexMunday]

Thanks a lot for the answer Jimmy but that is not what I was looking for.

The json is only the manifest file using as metadata file for the enity in the back (Common data model) and in the manifest you can add mutiple thingh (display name, definition, ...) but was not able to extract or use them with  Power bi and I wanted to know if that is supported 

Best,

Alex

[Jimmy801]

Hello @AlexMunday 

so you don't need any help anymore?

BR

Jimmy

[Jimmy801]

Hello @AlexMunday 

maybe I completely misunderstand your, but the data you provided is in JSON-format and to read that use Json.Document and refer to the field "displayName". Is that what you need? Here an example

let
    Json = "{#(cr)#(lf)""name"": ""CODE"",#(cr)#(lf)""dataFormat"": ""string"",#(cr)#(lf)""displayName"":""Country Code"",#(cr)#(lf)""description"":""Unique code for each country used as GUID""#(cr)#(lf)}",
    GetJson= Json.Document(Json),
    displayName = GetJson[displayName]
in
    displayName

Copy paste this code to the advanced editor in a new blank query to see how the solution works.

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