A self-contained application that displays business information as content-rich gadgets on a web page. A dashboard supports creating new gadgets and displaying real-time or static data as interactive charts, cross tabs, Flash visualizations, formatted text, and Reportlets. A dashboard contains one or more gadgets that display information or accept user input to change the content of a linked gadget. Actuate BIRT 360 supports the creation and use of dashboards on a BIRT iHub System, as shown in Figure G‑15. Actuate JavaScript API (JSAPI) supports the presentation and linking of Actuate gadgets on a dashboard.