# Using parameters in titles and descriptions in Amazon Quick
Parameters in titles and descriptions

When you create parameters in Amazon Quick, you can use them in titles and descriptions throughout your charts and analyses to dynamically display parameter values. 

You can use parameters in the following areas of your analysis:
+ Chart titles and subtitles
+ Axis titles
+ Legend titles
+ Parameter control titles
+ Sheet titles and descriptions

The following image shows a chart title that uses a parameter.

![\[Image of the Format visual pane with a parameter in the chart title and a chart with the parameter value in the title circled in red.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/images/parameters-in-titles-labels2.png)


Use the following procedures to learn how to add parameters to areas throughout your analysis. For more information about parameters and how to create them, see [Parameters](parameters-in-quicksight.md).

## Adding parameters to chart titles and subtitles
Chart titles

Use the following procedure to learn how to add parameters to chart titles and subtitles.

**To add a parameter to a chart title or subtitle**

1. Open the **Properties** pane for the visual that you want to format.

1. In the **Properties** pane, choose the **Title** tab.

1. Select **Show title** or **Show subtitle**. These options might already be selected.

1. Choose the three dots at the right of **Edit title** or **Edit subtitle**, and then choose a parameter from the list.

   The parameter is added to the title in the **Properties** pane. In the chart, the parameter value is displayed in the title.

   For more information about editing titles and subtitles in visuals, see [Titles and subtitles on visual types in Quick](customizing-a-visual-title.md).

## Adding parameters to axis titles
Axis titles

Use the following procedure to learn how to add parameters to axis titles.

**To add a parameter to an axis title**

1. Open the **Properties** pane for the visual that you want to format.

1. In the **Properties** pane, choose the axis that you want to format.

1. Select **Show title**.

1. Choose the three dots at the right of the default axis title, and then choose a parameter from the list.

   The parameter is added to the axis title in the **Properties** pane. In the chart, the parameter value is displayed in the axis title.

   For more information about editing axis titles, see [Axes and grid lines](showing-hiding-axis-grid-tick.md).

## Adding parameters to legend titles
Legend titles

Use the following procedure to learn how to add parameters to legend titles.

**To add a parameter to a legend title**

1. Open the **Properties** pane for the visual that you want to format.

1. In the **Properties** pane, choose **Legend**.

1. Select **Show legend title**.

1. Choose the three dots at the right of **Legend title**, and then choose a parameter from the list.

   The parameter is added to the legend title in the **Properties** pane. In the chart, the parameter value is displayed in the legend title.

   For more information about formatting legends, see [Legends on visual types in Quick](customizing-visual-legend.md).

## Adding parameters to control titles
Control titles

Use the following procedure to learn how to add parameters to parameter control titles.

**To add a parameter to a parameter control title**

1. Select the parameter control that you want to edit, choose the three dots at the right of the parameter control title, and then choose **Edit**.

1. In the **Edit control** page that opens, select **Show title**.

1. Choose the three dots at the right of **Display name**, and then choose a parameter from the list.

   The parameter is added to the parameter control title.

   For more information about using parameter controls, see [Parameter controls](parameters-controls.md).

## Adding parameters to sheet titles and descriptions
Sheet titles and descriptions

Use the following procedure to learn how to add parameters to sheet titles and descriptions in your analysis.

**To add a parameter to a sheet title or description**

1. On the analysis page, choose **Sheets** in the application bar and then choose **Add title** or **Add description**.

   A sheet title or description appears on the sheet.

1. For **Sheet title** or for **Description**, choose the three dots at right, and then choose a parameter from the list.

   The parameter is added to the sheet title or description and the parameter value appears in the text when you close the text box.

   For more information about adding sheet titles and descriptions, see [Adding a title and description to an analysis](adding-a-title-and-description.md).