Dynamic Column Names Using DAX - Field Parameters

Description:
Welcome to PowerBIisMyHobby!!! In this Power BI tutorial, we're going to explore a powerful technique to make your reports more flexible and interactive. We'll show you how to create dynamic column names in Power BI using field parameters and DAX, allowing you to build reports that can adapt to your users' needs.

In this video, we'll cover the following key topics:

Introduction to Dynamic Column Names: Understand the concept of dynamic column names and how they can enhance your Power BI reports.

Setting up Field Parameters: We'll walk you through the process of setting up field parameters, a vital step in making your column names dynamic. You'll learn how to create a user-friendly interface for your reports.

Leveraging DAX for Dynamic Column Names: We'll dive into DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) and show you how to use it to dynamically change column names based on user input.

Practical Example: We'll provide a hands-on demonstration by creating a practical report with dynamic column names. You'll see how this approach can be applied in real-world scenarios.

Tips and Best Practices: We'll share some valuable tips and best practices to optimize your Power BI reports and ensure smooth user experiences.

By the end of this video, you'll have the knowledge and skills to create dynamic column names in Power BI, allowing your reports to adapt to changing requirements and provide users with more control and insights.

Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe to PowerBIismyHobby for more Power BI tutorials and data visualization tips. If you have any questions or suggestions, please leave them in the comments section below. Thanks for watching, and let's get started with dynamic column names in Power BI!

[davidm]

Perfect! Simple and exactly what I needed.

[vijaykrishnan]

Very clever solution indeed.. Thank you :)

[OrhanPOLAT]

You are the man's raw material bro. It was very useful. Thanks.

[turinking]

Very Helpful. i was looking for this solution for past two years now.

[karankamal]

Not the exact solution I was looking for but still a very helpful video

[komanguy]

Big thank to you. Very well explained. Cheers!

[micarot]

Helped me a lot. Hoping to help you by commenting!

[FerozAhmad]

i'm getting only one column when i select the parameter and under them displaying values of all them with plus sign to expand. please assist what to do in order to fix it

[joechip]

This is a good solution, but only for a specific use-case. I still cannot imagine what the people at Microsoft are thinking for not making the headers of table-columns much more flexible in the first place. I would like to use some kind of lookup-table to maintain all column-headers at a central place - since many of the headers are used many times over in different report pages and many different visuals - not to speak of translation and flexible switching of languages. But Power BI is not open and dynamic enough to allow this and forces one to create massive redundancy instead.
Power BI is a typical case of a tool where you more sooner than later realize that those who develop it never have to work with it in real life. Otherwise a thing like dynamic headers pulled from a single central table lookup would be a self-evident thing that works out of the box. Such things even worked in fat-clients like MS ACCESS 30 years ago already. Nowadays everything LOOKS totally 'dynamic' - but in fact it isn't.

[Sbadhe]

I created a similar parameter but the fields in the parameter are not displaying the totals. Can you please help?

[raincloud]

Apparently interesting solution but it won't work if the current month number is lower than 6 as it have to subtract 1 from the year too. Also it can not be applied to filtered (by slicer) values as the parameter does not recognize such filters. I tried to name the several columns based on periods back from a period selected by a slicer and the proposed solution does not work. Any idea how to change the table column names based on a date period selected by a slicer?

[sairabanu]

Passed selectedvalue from slicer as text in similar parameter, but its not displaying the values, can you please help?