how to change the legends of highcharts to custom name?

Question

I am new to highcharts and I want to change the text of the legends of the charts with the text that i have in an array. I have an array of "name" and i want it to be the text of the legends. Is there any way to solve my problem?

The jsfiddle link is given in the comment below. Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

To change series name displayed in legend, but not name of a series, then you could use labelFormatter (as Sebastian suggested). If series are indexed the same as your name array then you could access series _i property and use it to get proper name from name array.

var name = ["a","b","c","d"];
...
        legend: {
            labelFormatter: function () {
                return name[this._i];
            }
...

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/3ks9cxvn/1/