Users can share and assign file access permissions to dashboard and gadget files. When users subscribe to a dashboard file they always receive the latest version of that file. Users that want to edit a shared dashboard must either copy the dashboard or open the original dashboard file using Information Console.

For example, a company’s dashboard developer shares a dashboard named “Shipments” with information about product shipping. If the company changes the primary shipping provider and adds some secondary shipment companies, the developer updates the Shipments dashboard and all users of the shared Shipments dashboard receive the changed dashboard when they log in to Information Console.

Shared gadgets enables users to build their own dashboards with pre-built gadgets. Continuing the previous example, the dashboard developer can build a gadget displaying daily outgoing shipments. When this gadget is shared, other users can add it to their personal dashboard.

Users can save dashboard and gadget files to the shared dashboard folder or to other directories on the Encyclopedia volume. When users save dashboard and gadget files to the shared dashboard folder, those files are available for users from the dashboard gallery and gadget gallery. Saving dashboard and gadget files to other locations requires users to open the file directly from the Information Console file manager.