# What is wrong with this parameter?

**URL:** <https://community.postman.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-this-parameter/12691>\
**Category:** Help Hub\
**Created:** [May 15, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-this-parameter/12691 "2020-05-15T19:10:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![hannah.neil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/hannah.neil/32/4477_2.png) [@hannah.neil](https://community.postman.com/u/hannah.neil)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/what-is-wrong-with-this-parameter/12691/2 "2020-05-15T20:00:51Z")

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Hi @jackwabbit, welcome to the community.

Does this thread help answer your question?

> [@Issues passing body key / value pair](https://community.postman.com/t/issues-passing-body-key-value-pair/3484):
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> I confess that I’m a periodic Postman user that in times past has just been able to “get it to work” mostly by trial and error (this is meant as a negative-ish commentary on myself, not on Postman). But I’m afraid that I’ve run into a situation that for some reason I cannot yet get to work. I can successfully make my API call using basic authorization to return results, but what I’m having trouble with is passing filter parameters to restrict the data being returned. The API’s documentation s…

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