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Ability to change report labels for duplicated field names (from related entities)

If you have two fields of the same name in a report ie: One from the primary entity you are reporting on and another from a related entity, Clarizen will automatically add the full entity reference to the 2nd field label in the report. 

This makes sense to avoid possible confusion. However the display of the full entity reference is not aesthetically pleasing for the end user, especially in a reporting context.

As a suggestion it would be good if Clarizen could detect the duplicate field label and instead request for a user entered alternative for the purposes of the report display. That way the user can make it more concise and applicable to the display of the report while ensuring that the labels are still different - thus still preventing any confusion.

Example: The use of the Project State field and the State field from the related Discussions entity will currently output two field labels called:

State                       <Project>.<Discussions>.State

If the user had the choice to enter an alternative for the duplicate field in the discussions entity they may choose to display it like this instead:

State                        Discussion State

A much more pleasing output label for the report.

Thanks for listening and keep up the great work.

 

 

Gregg Holden Not planned

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Great suggestion, I've asked for the same function too.

Though I would suggest that the ability to enter alternative headers/titles within reporting generally to aid the readability of reporting.

Phil Smith 1 vote
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Sorry, just spotted I missed out a bit of my text.

Though I would suggest that the ability to enter alternative headers/titles for any field within reporting generally to aid the readability of reporting.

Phil Smith 1 vote
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Agreed this is a great suggestion! Please Clarizen, help on this!

Sammy Zheng 0 votes
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