Field description in chart legend instead of technical name (BW query)?

I am building a report from a BW query. The report has a grouping field and a bar chart in the group footer. When I execute the report the legend shows the technical name of the key figures even though I checked the "Show description" field in the "options".
I can change the labels in "preview" mode (provided I can guess the real names), but just like in the field explorer I would prefer to always have the text instead of the nonsense technical name.
Is this possible?

hello all,
you can use a 2 chart workaround for this.
1) the first chart is the Group chart you already have...just disable the legend
2) now create an Advanced chart using the description field as the On Change Of
3) set the Order of chart to correspond with the technical field that the group is based on
4) preview the chart and right click on the x axis area and format the axis so nothing is showing
5) do the same for the y axis
6) keep right clicking on all of the chart objects and changing them to transparent
sounds annoying, is annoying, but it works.
cheers,
jamie

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