title: How to set today's date to a parameter in Tableau
body: <p>I know that not many answers for Tableau are on this site, but this site is my first stop to either answer others or get my answers for nearly all of my tasks.</p>
  
  <p>My questions is:</p>
  
  <p>How do you set up a parameter for today's date when a tableau workbook is published to Tableau Server?</p>
  
  <p>I've tried the following:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Set the parameter equal to Today()</li>
  <li>Set the parameter equal to a field tied to a dataset from a date dimension</li>
  <li>Set the parameter to a field that calls getdate() from sql server.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>All of these things work until the workbook is published to tableau server.</p>
  
  <p>The result is ALWAYS whatever the date is when it is published.</p>
  
  <p>The versions are 10.1.1 for desktop and server. </p>