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How to Revert Field Names and Capitalization Changes

Publiceringsdatum: Apr 30, 2025
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After reading data in Tableau Desktop, field names that are capitalized are converted to lower case except for the beginning letter. Letters following the non-alphabetic character remain capitalized.

For example:

Original Field NameField Name in Tableau Desktop
PC1Pc1
COUNTRY_NAMECountry Name

 

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Using [Reset Name] option can help to undo changes.
To undo changes manually, follow the steps.

1. Open the workbook and go to the [Data Source] page.
2. Press Ctrl+Click (Windows) or Command+Click (Mac) to select the rows with changes you want to undo.
3. Click the drop-down arrow for one of the rows selected, and select [Reset Names].


 
Ytterligare resurser
Field name clean-up

This automation convert is caused by field type detection and naming Improvements function built in Tableau Desktop.
Understand Field Type Detection and Naming Improvements

To automatically undo changes made by Tableau at the application level, follow the procedure in the Overriding Automatic Field Renaming article.

 
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001456843

 
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Salesforce Help | Article