{"id":580,"date":"2025-01-05T17:25:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T17:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/?p=580"},"modified":"2025-01-05T17:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T17:25:46","slug":"insert-dynamic-text-values-into-text-boxes-in-power-bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/insert-dynamic-text-values-into-text-boxes-in-power-bi\/","title":{"rendered":"Insert dynamic (text) values into Text Boxes in Power BI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Would you like to insert Dynamic Text Values into your Power BI Text Boxes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I was updating my CV dashboard (which I created for a contest a few years earlier), I noticed something unforgivable:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I HAD HARDCODED A VALUE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DYNAMIC!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an outrage!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my case, the hardcoded value was the amount of years of work experience. I vowed to correct this issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As it so happens, Power BI has a nifty way to insert dynamic values into a text box, using \u201c+ Value\u201d you can add measures to your text box, making the text dynamic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I can be at peace with the cosmos once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"795\" src=\"https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250105-Adding-dynamic-text-to-Text-Boxes-in-Power-BI-1024x795.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250105-Adding-dynamic-text-to-Text-Boxes-in-Power-BI-1024x795.png 1024w, https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250105-Adding-dynamic-text-to-Text-Boxes-in-Power-BI-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250105-Adding-dynamic-text-to-Text-Boxes-in-Power-BI-768x596.png 768w, https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250105-Adding-dynamic-text-to-Text-Boxes-in-Power-BI.png 1203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like to insert Dynamic Text Values into your Power BI Text Boxes? As I was updating my CV dashboard (which I created for a contest a few years earlier), I noticed something unforgivable: I HAD HARDCODED A VALUE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DYNAMIC! This is an outrage! In my case, the hardcoded&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/insert-dynamic-text-values-into-text-boxes-in-power-bi\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-powerbi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datadandies.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}