About dashboard organization

Organizing dashboards helps each user make efficient and productive use of dashboards. Users organize dashboards on their personal dashboard. Dashboard developers set organization options for shared dashboard files.

Users can organize dashboards in groups and add additional information to the dashboard for user assistance or corporate identity. For example, text gadgets can include instructions and logos or corporate web links can be added to the top or bottom of dashboards.

Subscribed dashboards limit organization options for a user because updates to the latest version of a dashboard file replaces user changes. When users copy a subscribed dashboard, they can customize the copied dashboard and its gadgets. Copying a subscribed dashboard breaks the link to the original, shared dashboard file and future updates do not change the new, copied dashboard. Changes made to the copied dashboard do not affect the original files.

Each dashboard supports gadget layout for freeform or one, two, or three columns. Freeform layout supports resizing gadgets and placing them anywhere on the dashboard. This layout also supports overlapping gadgets.

Using the dashboard column layout supports:

n	Automatic width resizing for gadgets within a column

n	Adjusting column width to a value relative to the size of the web browser

n	Changing the order of gadgets within the same column

n	Moving gadgets from one column to another

n	Adjusting gadget height to a fixed value

n	Changing individual gadgets to floating for placement outside of columns

Dashboard layout options for new dashboards is set in Information Console user options. Once the dashboard is created, you can change the layout.

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