Dashboard files contain one or more dashboards. Users can refresh, rename, reorder, copy, or delete a shared dashboard. Users also can interact with gadgets on a shared dashboard. For example, you can print a chart gadget, interact with tables and BIRT files, or use data selection gadgets to filter a report. Modifications to gadgets on shared dashboards are reset when the dashboard refreshes or updates.

Shared dashboards appear using the share icon in the dashboard title.

If new versions of a shared dashboard exists, subscribers to this dashboard receive the latest version the next time they open or refresh the dashboard. Users can change shared dashboard files when they have write permissions to the file or by copying the shared dashboard.