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title: Add Live Metrics to Tableau Next Text Widgets
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description: Enhance your dashboards by embedding live metric attributes directly into text widgets. This capability provides a highly adaptable formatting space that merges live performance metrics with strategic observations.
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# Add Live Metrics to Tableau Next Text Widgets

Enhance your dashboards by embedding live metric attributes directly into text widgets. This capability provides a highly adaptable formatting space that merges live performance metrics with strategic observations.

### Required Editions

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d32386e54 ">To edit Tableau Next dashboards:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d32386e54 "><span>Tableau Unmetered Platform Analyst or Tableau Next Platform Analyst</span> permission set</td>

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1. Add a text widget or edit an existing text widget on your dashboard.
2. Go to the Widget tab, click **Insert Data**, and select **Metric**.
    
    ![Selecting a metric from a menu.](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-tua-264-0-0-production-enus/d794334f-d174-49d3-a4d2-a615bd2e54aa/tua/images/tua_create_dashboard_text_embed_metrics.png)
3. Select a data model and metric, followed by the individual metric element you want to add. Add optional text to display when no results occur in the **No Result Text** field .
    
    ![Selecting a metric for the text widget.](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-tua-264-0-0-production-enus/d794334f-d174-49d3-a4d2-a615bd2e54aa/tua/images/tua_create_dashboard_text_embed_metrics_2.png)
4. Type in qualitative text to accompany the metric.
    
    ![A text widget showing a metric with associated descriptive text.](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-tua-264-0-0-production-enus/d794334f-d174-49d3-a4d2-a615bd2e54aa/tua/images/tua_create_dashboard_text_embed_metrics_3.png)
    
    For further emphasis on critical data fluctuations, use the Style tab to implement conditional formatting.