Users can refresh a gadget to redraw the gadget content. To update gadgets displaying data from a BIRT data object, such as a data visualization gadget, refresh the web browser. Gadgets displaying BIRT documents, external web sites, or real-time data display the latest data when the user refreshes the gadget.

Choose Refresh from the gadget menu, as shown in Figure 4‑60, to refresh the content of a gadget.