To provide better clarity and context to your data visualizations, MoEngage allows you to customize legend names and axis ticks within MoEngage Analytics. This ensures that your charts are intuitive and tailored to your specific business terminology when you share dashboards or save queries.
Renaming legends and ticks allows you to replace technical event names or system-generated labels with user-friendly titles. This is particularly useful for executive reporting or cross-functional sharing where stakeholders may not be familiar with backend event naming conventions.
Use Cases
- Humanize Technical Names: Rename developer-coded events (e.g., 'btn_clk_01') to readable titles like "Home Button Clicks" for instant stakeholder clarity.
- Contextualize Time Axes: Replace standard ticks with business milestones (e.g., "Holiday Sale") to highlight the impact of specific campaigns directly.
- Translate Abstract IDs: Swap technical identifiers like Location IDs for descriptive labels (e.g., "London") to remove the friction of using lookup tables.
Renaming Chart Legends
You can edit legend names directly from the chart visualization. Once modified, these names are preserved when the query is saved or when a chart is added to a Dashboard.
Legend and tick renaming are available in the following analysis types: User Analysis, Behavior, Funnel, Retention, and Session & Source.
Note: This feature is not supported for User Paths, Acquisition, or Uninstall analyses. Legend renaming is unavailable for Custom Distribution charts, as the distribution buckets are manually defined by the user.
How to Rename a Legend:
- Navigate to a supported Analytics module (e.g., Behavior).
- Execute your query to generate the visualization.
- In the legend area (typically located below the chart), click on the pencil icon next to the Legend text you wish to change.
Type the new name and press Enter or click away to save.
- Saved names will appear in the table. If a data point is represented by multiple cells (such as in Split By scenarios), all corresponding cells will be updated with the provided name.
Renaming Axis Ticks
In specific visualization types, you can rename "ticks" (the labels on the X). This functionality is available exclusively for Bar Charts in the following scenarios:
- Time Comparisons: When comparing data across different time periods (e.g., "This Week" vs. "Last Week").
- Segment Comparisons: When comparing data across different segments (e.g., "New Users" vs. "Returning Users").
How to Rename Ticks:
- Switch your chart view to Bar Chart.
- In the tick area (typically located below of the chart), click on the pencil icon next to the Legend text you wish to change.
- Type the new name and press Enter or click away to save.
To restore the original name, click on the pencil icon next to the Legend text you wish to restore. Delete the existing name and press Enter or click away to save.