Will you be using this view programatically? If so what you could do is provide an input screen to gather the value into a variable. Passing the variable should work without the quotes (I think). It has been some time since I used remote views.
>I will work if i put "" around it but i was try to avoid having to do that.Any suggestions?
>Thanks Linda
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