# Is it possible to give an alias to a query parameter?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** data-explorer\
**Created:** [August 25, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-give-an-alias-to-a-query-parameter/276643 "2023-08-25T17:05:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 4:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-give-an-alias-to-a-query-parameter/276643/8 "2023-08-26T04:21:00Z")

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> [@jordan-violet](#):
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> it’s just not as polished when you’re trying to make these reports friendly to _very_ non-technical people

DE is very raw… building a different UI (be it a webpage or a spreadsheet or an application) is probably a good idea.

A great example is Grafana!

Grafana has a [live demo of reports about their community pulled from Data Explorer in real time](https://play.grafana.org/d/6Hg9LVd4z/grafana-community-forum-category-response-rate?orgId=1).

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