SSAS tabular mode Perspective display in Excel 2010

Hello All,
I have SSAS tabular modal cube. I created one perspective based on user requirement. I am using Excel 2010 to open the perspective. When I check the Pivot Tbale Field List (window at the right), I can see all my tables, columns and mesaures that I selected
for my perspective by scrolling in hte Field List. However when I click the drop down which says (Show fields related to:) I can see only 3 to 4 Dimension tables and some of the measures that I selected. I don't see all the tables in that perspective. When
I open the perspective which contains the entire cube, I can see all tables, columns and measures in the drop down list, however with perspective it only shows certain table.
Does anyone why this behaviour in Excel. I tried opening in Excel 2013 but got same result.
Any help in solving this matter would be appreciated.
Thanks
Deepak Gada

Hi,
In tabular projects there is no property like "NameColumn" to change the display labels. What I would suggest is to create a calculated column in tabular project by using CONCATENATE() function available in DAX. As an example;
Account Names:= CONCATENATE([Account Name] + " - ", [Account ID])
Following is the link to CONCATENATE DAX function.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee634811.aspx 
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