The default titles for new visualizations varies with the visualization type, and sometimes also with the configuration of the visualization. When the 'Auto Title' option is used, the title of a visualization changes when you configure the visualization differently. If you want a different title, you can specify it in the visualization properties.

To change the title of a visualization to plain text, you can just double-click on the title in the title bar and type anything you want:

In the installed client, you can show or hide the entire title bar by right-clicking the visualization and selecting Visualization Features > Title Bar, or you can use the visualization properties for both the installed and the web client. Under Title bar, you can choose if you want to show or hide the visualization title and warnings. You can hide the whole title bar by removing the Title bar card from the visualization properties panel.

If you want the titles of pages and visualizations, or the visualization descriptions, to change with the selections done on the visualization axes, you can define the title or description to use the built-in "axis visualization properties" or by setting up custom document properties to be used in the title or description. Document properties can, in turn, be controlled via property controls in the text area. See Working with dynamic titles and descriptions for more details about how to add dynamic content.

The default scatter plot title

The default title of a new scatter plot is constructed by the display names used on the axes of the visualization:

When the axes are changed, then the title of the visualization is automatically updated:

Tip: Double-click the title bar of the visualization, and type a new title.

Setting up a custom dynamic bar chart title

The auto title for a new bar chart visualization with the following configuration is 'Value axis column name' per 'Category axis':

However, you might want to use another dynamic title instead, which contains the display names used on the axes of the bar chart as well as the categorization on the color axis. Right-click on the visualization and select Properties from the pop-up menu. On the General page, click Edit.

Here, you can select the properties of interest and insert them into the Title expression field. You can also type additional information in plain text. For example, the following expression includes the display names for the X- and Y-axes and also the color axis:

${Axis.Y.DisplayName} per ${Axis.X.DisplayName}, split by ${Axis.Color.DisplayName}

This would result in the following title, using the same visualization setup as above:

Dynamic description updated using a property control

If you are using custom properties to control what is shown in your analysis, you can also let the current property value be a part of the title or description of a visualization. In this example, a document property called MeasureColumnSelection has been used to set what is shown on the Value axis of a bar chart. A property control in the text area allows you to change the value of the property:

When the value of the property is changed using the property control, the visualization is updated:

The expressions used in this visualization were:

• On the Value axis: Sum($esc(${MeasureColumnSelection}))
• Title expression: ${MeasureColumnSelection} per year
• Description expression: This visualization shows the ${MeasureColumnSelection} per year.

And the property control used fixed values with display names: