Although gadgets display in a column or free form layout, users can maximize a gadget to fill the browser window. Maximizing a gadget enables more space for viewing data and launches the browser-based tool for editing the selected gadget.

The following browser-based tools are launched by maximizing gadgets on the dashboard:

A browser-based tool can save changes to a gadget when the user has write privileges to the dashboard file.

Gadgets are maximized by:

Interactive Viewer features, such as saving a file, hiding document parts, printing, and linking or embedding the document page, requires that the BIRT document or design file be opened from Information Console and not from within a gadget.