DV: Ability to fix / replace erroneous field in project before those fields are removed everywhere

Nina Asenbauer

Organization Name (Required - If you are an Oracle Partner, please provide the organization you are logging the idea on behalf of):

solicon IT

Description (Required):

When there is a field name or measure name change in the underlying dataset / database, on opening a project using those fields they get removed with a popup, leaving visualizations with empty targets and the user to guess which field went where. They then need to go over the "broken" visualizations one by one and try and guess what has been in there before.

Use Case and Business Need (Required):

Since there is no way to change column or measure names within a visualization, the only way to change names would be in the underlying dataset, leading to the scenario described above.

Could also happen when correcting some errors in the database or renaming elements to reflect updates etc.

Enhancement Request / Service Request:

Don't remove elements that can't be found anymore right away, leave them and indicate that there is something wrong with a visual (or give users a dialog " do you want to remove them? yes/no") so that users can see what has been in there and know with what to replace it. Tools like Power BI solve this by showing "something is wrong with one of the elements in this visual" and you then can get an information as to what exactly is the problem, eg. "element x can't be found anymore" and replace / repair the element in question.

Also an idea:

"The following items could not be found. Do you want to re-map these items?"

and then a dialog that allows you to map Age - AGER, Department - duparmont and so on.

Please excuse the silly names.