Users build Actuate gadgets with browser-based gadget wizards available in Information Console. These wizards are launched when a user adds a gadget to a dashboard or edits an existing gadget. Actuate gadgets can link to each other and to data object files. These gadgets are in the Encyclopedia volume and support the file access permissions of Information Console.

Saving Actuate gadgets to the shared folder makes these gadgets available to other users to access from the dashboard gallery and the Gadget Gallery.

Actuate gadgets are rendered using Actuate JSAPI and are displayed on a dashboard or opened separately as a file.