After testing, I got some errors when trying to use your 2 specific examples, so I ended up doing a foreach (even though I only have 1 row of data) from the following post to get the values to populate.
Also, I found that the formatting of the 2 text fields was just a continuous line and I needed carriage returns to be effective. I ended up keeping the embedded dashboard, but still used the dqa to determine if there was a resultant set of data and set the Enabled status of my EpiShape. Thank you so much for your help. I learned quite a bit through this process.