The new extended reader customization possibility for tables is great. However there seems to be a bug, as the naming of the group-by columns is not working as described in Amazon Quick Sight expands dashboard customization in tables and pivot tables | AWS Business Intelligence Blog
The blog article describes the names of the group by selection to be shown as both the orignal column name and the author given name.
Which is true when selecting the columns during author creation. However when using the customization feature and selecting other columns, only the dataset fieldname but not the author defined name is displayed, both in the selection as well as in the resulting table. This is really confusing for the reader, as the dataset column names are mostly unknown to the user.
I suspect this to be a bug, as e.g. also sorting of tables only uses the correct author assigned column name. I would highly appreciate if you could fix this issue.
Thanks and kind regards!
Hi @kilian.mueller,
Welcome to the Quick Community! From what I can tell in the image, it seems to be displaying the author defined names instead of the dataset. The image showcases that they were originally named ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘B (Count).’
Are you trying to make it so both names show in column header? If so, based on the documentation that is not possible via the reader customization feature. Please let me know if I misunderstood your question and info given at all.
Thank you!
Hi @WLS-Luis ,
thanks for the fast reply and warm welcome!
My showcase has 3 dataset fields ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’. The author given names are ‘A’ = ‘User’, ‘B’ = ‘City’ and ‘C’ = ‘Street’. They are correctly displayed (and also used as column names within the table) when added to the ‘Value’ part on the right (see green marks for ‘City’/’B’). It also works correctly, if the field was added as a ‘Group by’ field by the author (see green marks for ‘User’/’A’). However when added by the reader as a ‘Group by’ field, the name on the right as well as the column name within the table is always the dataset field name instead of the author given name (see red marks).
This does not align to the description in the linked blog post:
As the reader does not know the dataset field names, it is highly confusing, that they are shown instead of the author given names. Therefore I need the column name to be the author given name instead of the dataset field name. I hope this clarifies my problem.
I appreciate your help!
