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title: "Hide Source Information from the User"
slug: "hide-source-information-from-the-user"
updated: 2026-02-23T08:32:47Z
published: 2026-02-23T08:32:47Z
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> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Hide Source Information from the User

You can hide panes containing source information from a user. For example, if you wanted to display a date and time as text on a dashboard. As the Date/Time Data Control usually displays in a pane as user selectable control, you can hide this as follows:

1. Drag a Link Label block onto the workspace.
2. Drag a Date/Time block to the workspace and connect it as an input to the Link Label Control block.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/87d11426-6b1f-4b19-b593-b71e55a81af3/Images/Documentation/link_label_datasource.png)
3. In the **Pane** field, click the **Add Pane** button, and add a pane in which to display the date and time (for example Temp).The Temp pane for the [Date/Time Control block](/documentation/docs/define-a-date-time-control) .
4. In the **Default Date/Time** section, select **Now** to display the current date and time.
5. Click the **Apply** button.
6. Select the Link Label Data Control block and open the **Input Bindings** section.
7. Click the down arrow in the **Dynamic Label text** field and select the **selectedDate** option.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/87d11426-6b1f-4b19-b593-b71e55a81af3/Images/Documentation/Link_label_datetime_input.png)
8. Leave the **Static label text** field blank.
9. Click the **Apply** button.
10. Click the Dashboard Viewer button in the top right corner of the Dashboard Builder to display the Dashboard.
11. Select the pane in which the Date/Time selector control displays, and click the **X** button on the pane to remove the pane from the view.
12. Click the Settings icon in the top left corner of your dashboard, and then click the Save Default Layout icon to save your changes.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/87d11426-6b1f-4b19-b593-b71e55a81af3/Images/Documentation/save_dashboard.png)

![](https://cdn.document360.io/87d11426-6b1f-4b19-b593-b71e55a81af3/Images/Documentation/time_text.png)

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