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I am relatively new.
I want to add current date to a dashboard. it should be displayed by a textbox.
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Hi,
you can add a measure for todays date:
enter the name of the measure and select the formatting:
the updated value will then appear in the text box along side any text:
If I answered your question, please mark my post as solution, Appreciate your Kudos 👍
Value option did not work for me. However creating the new measure
Maybe the original solution has been superceded, but just for anyone else who may stumble across this, I found I could do it without a measure, just by using TODAY(). My data is held outside the Report (Dash), so I wanted to avoid adding measures. You can format within the Result Options:
How do you do custom formatting for this e.g. mmmm yyyy
And if attempting to use Value instead yields: "Adding dynami values is't supported in this application." XX
Then what?
Hi,
you can add a measure for todays date:
enter the name of the measure and select the formatting:
the updated value will then appear in the text box along side any text:
If I answered your question, please mark my post as solution, Appreciate your Kudos 👍
The "+ VALUE" button sometimes see a measure, sometimes does not see it.
What can be done with it?
I face this issue i created a new measure but it is not showing inside the +value box. Did you find a solution for this??
No, I did not find yet.
Nice solution, but how do we now get rid of that pesky blue underline?
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