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Is there a way to change the Display Name of columns in Groupings

  • May 19, 2023
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We use the system name by following naming conventions like 

 

Display: Company Name Other

System: XX_CompanyName_Other

 

This becomes a problems when you use "grouping" within list views (see image).  Basically, the system name comes through instead of the "Display Name". 

 

Is there a way to get the display name to show up when groupings are used? I'm guessing this might be an "Advanced" option but I'm a little lost on that.

 

I'd like to see the grouping display "Story Status" instead of "SI_storyStatus" ...

 

 

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Best answer by D____D

This is a really odd issue .. it's almost seems situational or that there are just different ways to solve the same problem ... this worked for me ...  The two bold type script lines being the key. 

I'd like to thank everybody who replied though as it did help me get to where I needed to be.

 

group.0.displayname=Story Status
group.0.iscollapsed=true
group.0.linkedname=direct
group.0.namekey=SI_storyStatus
group.0.namekeyargkey.0=Story Status
group.0.valuefield=SI_storyStatus
group.0.valueformat=customDataLabelsAsString
textmode=true

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skyehansen
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skyehansenCommunity Advisor
May 19, 2023

You might be able to make use of this Groupings blog post.

 

https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/workfront-blogs/basic-text-mode-groupings-for-beginners/ba-p/518271

 

Also, this "Quick tip" post.

https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/workfront-questions/quick-tip-you-can-remove-name-prefixes-on-groupings/m-p/480371

 

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    D____DAuthor
    Level 4
    May 19, 2023

    Tried Standard Mode -> Text Mode and added group.0.displayname=Story Status but the display name for the grouping did not change ... 
    Tried group.0.name=Story Status .. same result ..

     

    I feel like I'm missing something simple here

    skyehansen
    Community Advisor
    skyehansenCommunity Advisor
    May 19, 2023

    Can you post your code? I think I was trying this out with one of my coworkers last night and we found that deleting all the namekey lines also helped.

      Madalyn_Destafney
      Community Advisor
      Madalyn_DestafneyCommunity Advisor
      Community Advisor
      May 19, 2023

      If you change your groupings tab when editing a report to text mode, you'll see a grouping line with 'namekey' like this:
      group.1.namekey=view.relatedcolumn

      This is where you can easily modify it to anything you want by removing anything from 'key' on and replacing it with just name=X. For example:
      group.1.name=Story Status

      If this helped you, please mark correct to help others! : )

      If this helped you, please mark correct to help others : )
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        D____DAuthor
        Level 4
        May 19, 2023

        I feel like what you are saying is make this - 

        group.0.iscollapsed=true
        group.0.linkedname=direct
        group.0.namekey=SI_storyStatus
        group.0.valuefield=SI_storyStatus
        group.0.valueformat=customDataLabelsAsString
        textmode=true

         

        Into this (changes in bold)

         

        group.0.iscollapsed=true
        group.0.linkedname=direct
        group.0.namekey=view.relatedcolumn

        group0.name=Story Status
        group.0.valuefield=SI_storyStatus
        group.0.valueformat=customDataLabelsAsString
        textmode=true

        Madalyn_Destafney
        Community Advisor
        Madalyn_DestafneyCommunity Advisor
        Community Advisor
        May 19, 2023

        Almost, you're missing the 1st period after group. Grab what I posted, all you need to change in your grouping text mode is the group namekey line. Change this:
        group.0.namekey=SI_storyStatus

        To this:
        group.0.name=Story Status

        If this helped you, please mark correct to help others : )
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          D____DAuthorAccepted solution
          Level 4
          May 19, 2023

          This is a really odd issue .. it's almost seems situational or that there are just different ways to solve the same problem ... this worked for me ...  The two bold type script lines being the key. 

          I'd like to thank everybody who replied though as it did help me get to where I needed to be.

           

          group.0.displayname=Story Status
          group.0.iscollapsed=true
          group.0.linkedname=direct
          group.0.namekey=SI_storyStatus
          group.0.namekeyargkey.0=Story Status
          group.0.valuefield=SI_storyStatus
          group.0.valueformat=customDataLabelsAsString
          textmode=true

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