# Text Box with Date Parameter

**URL:** <https://community.amazonquick.com/t/text-box-with-date-parameter/8159>\
**Category:** Q&A\
**Tags:** calculations, error, quick-sight\
**Created:** [December 2, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.amazonquick.com/t/text-box-with-date-parameter/8159 "2022-12-02T14:43:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![acharchar](https://d2orw1595917va.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.amazonquick.com/acharchar/32/5020_2.png) [@acharchar](https://community.amazonquick.com/u/acharchar)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.amazonquick.com/t/text-box-with-date-parameter/8159/1 "2022-12-02T14:43:35Z")

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Hi, Community. I am looking to include a dynamic date parameter in a text box but continually get “Something went wrong”. This blog outlined the initial steps:

> [@Add text boxes to your Amazon Quick Sight analysis](https://community.amazonquick.com/t/add-text-boxes-to-your-amazon-quicksight-analysis/7900):
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> We are excited to announce the launch of text boxes in [Amazon Quick Sight](https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/). Now you can add text for common use cases, including but not limited to titles, subtitles, annotations, adding additional information for KPIs etc has been simplified than ever before with the new text box. You can reposition, resize, and make your text stand out with various rich text formatting options like font styling, text alignment, and text box styling. You can also add dynamic text values with the help of user-def…

Dynamic Parameter:

![image](https://d1wl4jav5dp96l.cloudfront.net/original/2X/9/997e89eef05625b6817f6024890744db5faad95a.png)

Text Box with Parameter:

 ![image](https://d1wl4jav5dp96l.cloudfront.net/original/2X/5/54424585bea59b4e58ec09c76358d017550493e4.png)

Resulting Error

 ![image](https://d1wl4jav5dp96l.cloudfront.net/original/2X/5/51490e5dfb494364a0ccbd1927b38c6daa4d79d3.png)

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**Author:** ![Max](https://d2orw1595917va.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.amazonquick.com/max/32/2288_2.png) [@Max](https://community.amazonquick.com/u/Max)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.amazonquick.com/t/text-box-with-date-parameter/8159/2 "2022-12-02T15:48:30Z")

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It seems to me that this might only be for the new reporting feature released.

I am marking this as an error because they should have this for regular dashboards as well.

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**Author:** ![Max](https://d2orw1595917va.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.amazonquick.com/max/32/2288_2.png) [@Max](https://community.amazonquick.com/u/Max)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.amazonquick.com/t/text-box-with-date-parameter/8159/3 "2022-12-02T15:48:40Z")

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Archived on December 2, 2022, 3:48pm UTC


