Knowledge Drop
Last Tested: May 10, 2018
The label attribute will change how the field is displayed when you explore it, or have it in a dashboard.
The view_label attribute will change the view that references it. It's a really way to re-group things, especially if you've got a few different types of fact tables involved.
For example if we have a LookML field user_facts.number_of_users:
- Giving it a "label" of 'count' will make it display as USER FACTS Count.
- Giving it a "view_label" of 'users' will make it display as USERS Number Of Users (and it'll also be grouped under users in the field picker)
- If you do both, you've got USERS Count
You can find more information about this in this community article!
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