The problem I have is that I have Data Elements and Indicators with quite long descriptive names. When I use these in a pivot table on the dashboard they make the pivot table very hard to used as it feels like walls of text.
To get around this issue I am having to create a wrapper indicator with a shorter name.
Question: Is there a way to rename a column for the pivot table, or an elegant solution to wrapping DE and Indicators with new names?
Here are the examples of my DE and indicators with long names:
And my example of the table where I am creating wrapper indicators to rename the column titles:
Like many of the ideas you’ve posted, I believe this is a feature request as well. We can add it as a feature request, would you like to use the voting tool to add the idea (see ideas)?
Hi @jamiecarter7 !
What version are you using? It appears that indicator names in pivot tables will text wrap automatically as of 40.3.
See example from Play below. Looks the same on a dashboard.
Ah ok. Unfortunately I dont think theres a quick way to set shorter column name per visualization.
Some workarounds:
As a global setting for all visualizations, you can check the System Settings and set the display names to the indicator or DE shortname instead of name
You could also consider translating the indicator name with a shorter title. If you are using English as the default language I think this should show the shorter name in analytics apps too.
