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Ability to re-name Categories or Columns

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  • August 14, 2025
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Cognite’s names for Categories (eg. Assets or Equipment) does not align with our companies internal FLOC/Asset/Equipment naming structure which is consistent across our internal source systems.  We would like the ability to re-name Categories or fields from each source system so that we can maintain consistency across all of our data systems and make the user experience much cleaner and less confusing.

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Sofie Svartdal Berge
Seasoned Practitioner

Hi ​@John Cassidy !

I understand the need. The Core Data Model works as a starting point, but we see customers have the need to customize to have their data model reflect the internal naming structure.

When modeling/creating your data model, you can today rename/create your own names for Categories and Columns. One would use the Core Data Model as a starting point, then extend or copy it to get freedom in naming. 

I’ll ping the Cognite team linked to your company to follow up on this 😊

cc ​@Rachelle Harris ​@Muriel Craddock 

 

Best, 

Sofie, Product Manager