Can we programmatically rename field/column in datasets, analysis, or dashboards?

Hi guys,

A few years ago I was looking into this and got a bit stuck. I’m now coming back to see if things have improved.

Is it now possible to alter the name of fields/columns on Quicksight datasets, analyses, or dashboards?
Another way to look at this might be “can we programmatically edit the axis labels in a chart etc?”

At this stage I don’t care how or where, but I need some mechanism to programmatically (I code in python, so boto3 etc) alter the name of a field/column or how the field is named in a chart or dashboard. This is because I have generic column names that are displayed in dashboards and I need to change the displayed name depending upon the situation. Building templates, datasets, analyses, dashboards programmatically is a nightmare if we can’t edit names of the fields/columns.

For example “column_a” needs to be displayed as “Revenue”.

Yep you can now!

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Perfect, thank you!

I’m glad AWS added stuff I requested :slight_smile: A much needed feature in my opinion.

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