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June 12, 2026
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CDF UI showing property unit for data models

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  • June 12, 2026
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Today it is possible to specify the unit of a property of a View, enabling unit conversion on consumption (via the API). However, the CDF UI is currently not showing this unit. It means that we either have to create a dedicated “property_UOM”, or we have to add the unit into the @name in the View description. 
It would be preferable if the UI could show the unit, and also support the unit conversion. 

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Everton Colling
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June 15, 2026

Hi ​@Gunnar Andreas!

Thank you for suggesting this product idea. We will follow the traction this idea gets in the community. You can expect updates on this post if we decide to include this in our future roadmap, or if we require more information

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August 5, 2026

It would also be nice to add a flag in the Python SDK when listing instances of a view so that one can also get the unit from the container as a separate column for those properties with a given unit.

As an example, if “wellhead_temperature” has a unit stored as “C”, then the flag will add a “wellhead_temperature_uom” column with the unit “C” for all rows listed.

This will be useful for end user applications, and is for now sometimes hardcoded as a stored property in cases where the ease of use for the end user application is consider larger than the negative downside of this type of solution