Shared dashboard files contain one or more dashboard tabs. You can subscribe to, rename, reorder, copy, or delete a shared dashboard. You can also interact with gadgets on a shared dashboard, for example, using data selectors to filter a report gadget, print a chart gadget, or interact with the data using BIRT Interactive Viewer. Modifications to gadgets on shared dashboards reset the next time the dashboard refreshes or updates.

Shared dashboards appear with the share icon on the dashboard title. Users with write privileges to the dashboard file update shared dashboard files by overwriting the saved version of the dashboard. When a shared dashboard is changed, users that subscribe to the dashboard receive the changes the next time the dashboard opens or refreshes.