Which Tableau Desktop workflow allows you to display the member "NY" of the State dimension as "New York" while the stored value in the underlying data source remains "NY"?
Right-click the State dimension in the Data pane, choose Aliases, and edit "NY" to read "New York".
Open Replace Data Source and map the current connection so that "NY" is returned as "New York".
Edit the data source using Data Interpreter to replace every "NY" row value with "New York".
Right-click the State pill on the Rows shelf and choose Rename to type "New York".
Assigning an alias changes only how the selected member of a discrete dimension appears in the view; the value stored in the database or extract stays the same. In Tableau Desktop you can open the Edit Aliases dialog by right-clicking the dimension (in the Data pane or on a discrete pill) and mapping "NY" to a friendlier label such as "New York". Data Interpreter is designed to identify headers and subtables in Excel-style files; it cannot relabel individual member values. Renaming a field modifies the field's display name for all members, not a single value, and Replace Data Source switches entire connections rather than value-level labels.
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