BIRT hidden text fields from Database

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<p>I have a parameter on the page, for which I need to fetch the value from database and which is only for display purposes. The only way I could see BIRT fetch data from database was a dataset, but for that it has to be a list box. This is a text field.  I can do it in a not so nice way, by having the value populated by a list box as hidden and then using the same to populate the text box. But was just wondering is there a better way to do it.</p>