The easiest way to build a parameter file is to generate and excel file, using the header template, which can be downloaded from the AIMS (AIMS generates and makes it available in accordance with the parameters for a given platform)

The header is technology-dependent, so you'll have to:

1. log into the AIMS
2. select your technology
3. go to the section "Assays" or "Experiments" (click one of the tabs on the top side of the screen)
4. choose the tab "Upload Assays" or "Upload Experiments" in the top side of the screen
5. the page you'll see will contain a link to the template for this technology named "Download technology header".

NB: the header for the parameter file contains all possible parameters for a given technology and therefore it is very long and uncomfortable to work with. Depending on which parameters you are going to submit you'll want to delete the unused columns.
When editing the header, please, take into account that capitalised fields must stay even if there will be no values in the corresponding columns, while all other fields can be removed completely from the header.
Example (header for ClinProt MS):

 \ NAME \ DATA FILE \ Sample preparation.Barcode \ Design.Plate number \ Design.Well positions\

Here, the columns "Design.Well positions", "Design.Plate " and "Sample preparation.Barcode" can be omitted completely from the parameter file, while columns "NAME" and "DATA FILE" must be present even if empty.