>>Interesting. Does if check for existence of the property, e.g. since I just added that displayName only in one particular file, would it bomb in others?
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>>I am going to try your suggestion and look into ng-if in more details.
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>If it has the potential to not exist, you'd have to check for that:
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><span ng-if="column.displayName == undefined || column.displayName == ''">{{column.name}}</span>
><span ng-if="column.displayName != undefined && column.displayName != ''">{{column.displayName}}</span>
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In my quick tests this seems to work great. I now see normal descriptions in a few views I added that new property and original bad descriptions where we don't have them.