Change column Label name in the visual in Power BI On-Premise

[Luai7]

My uderstanding is that the following feature is already added to Power BI Cloud. However, when this will be added to Power BI Report Server as this is really critical for all business customers that use the on-premise version of POwer BI????

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/18123031-change-column-labels-nam...

[v-yulgu-msft]

Hi @Luai7,

In current version of Power BI Desktop optimized for Power BI Report Server, it is not available to customize the column labels. You could submit this idea at this page, your feedback is valuable to improve our products.

Regards,
Yuliana Gu

[Luai7]

Thank you Yuliana.

The idea is already there and it was completed on the Desktop edition optimized for cloud. So we expect that it will be added also to the Desktop edition optimized for Report Server!!!!

Our customers consider this a critical and must-have feature in the product and without it they will not accept the product.

Personaly, I was realy surprised that it was not there in the very first release of the product.

We are trying very hard to convince our customers to upgrade from SQL Server Standard to Enterprise Edition in order to start using Power BI On-Premise. Customers are already able to do this basic and critical customization in Reporting Services Paginated Reports which they get on Standard Edition. So now when they discover that they had to pay much more to get the Enterprise and they can't do this critical customization on PBI reports, they will reject the product.

We are talking here about critical and not-luxury features:

* Ability to customize the Visual Legend and all other visual captions

* Ability to customize the Matrix and Table Column and Row Headers captions

* Ability to set a matrix and table to RTL to display correct orientation for Hebrew, Arabic, etc.

Regards

Luai

[Luai7]

Any idea when these features will be supported??!!

[v-yulgu-msft]

Hi @Luai7,

Maybe @mgmeyer and @riccardomuti have some ideas.

Regards,
Yuliana Gu

[Greg_Deckler]

My understanding is that is a Desktop feature, not a Service feature. It is also my understanding that to ensure compatibility, you need to use the June "RS" edition of the Desktop which does not have that feature. I would expect that the next "RS" version of the Desktop that is released will allow you to do this but that's a bit crystal ball so...

[Luai7]

Thank you Smoupre.

Let's hope that it will be available in the coming October 2017 release as this is a critical feature to have.

Luai