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Categories Charts
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 20, 2020

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Field value label alias/override

When building a chart it is currently to provide a label override. E.G. change the label from 'document.subdocument.field' to 'mylabel. There should also be an option to provide value aliases/label overrides; E.G. be able to alias an int field with value 0 to ''red". Imagine a document field "color" of type int, where int defines a color used by a client. In the charts these values 0/1/2/3 mean little as they do not describe the value; being able to provide an alias of 'red/blue/green/yellow' would make it more meaningful
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Oct 18, 2025
    This can be done with String Binning. The feature lets you put 1 or more strings into a category and assign a new name. If the original values are numbers, you will need to convert the type to a string for this to work.
  • Guest
    Aug 4, 2023
    Additionally, I want to override the label on the axis. For instance, the x-axis might be labeled "utc_endtime", but I want it to say "Month".
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  • Guest
    Jun 22, 2020
    That's right, thank you for that suggestion. In my use case that actually works without any issues; I added an $addFields pipeline stage to my data sources to add an additional label field, which I then use in my charts.
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  • Guest
    Jun 21, 2020
    Thanks Sander, fair feature request. While we could definitely make this easier, you can accomplish this today with a calculated field using $cond or $switch, for example: { $switch: { branches: [ { case: { $eq: [ '$bedrooms', 1 ] }, then: "small" }, { case: { $eq: [ '$bedrooms', 2 ] }, then: "medium" }, { case: { $eq: [ '$bedrooms', 3 ] }, then: "large" } ], default: "Something else" } }
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