Widget properties
The widget properties are organized in three tabs: general, display, and layout. The widget properties are specific to the corresponding widget types: report or WebView widgets.
Report widgets
- General:
- Jump Targets
- An Application Studio report can contain a jump to a target report. If a widget displays a report which contains a jump, you can specify whether the target report replaces the current content of the widget, or it is displayed full-screen.
- Content Connection
- The content connection used. You can use content connections to link widgets on a dashboard. For report content, report parameters are specified in Application Studio.
- Report Name
- The Application Studio target report name.
- Unique Name
- The report unique name.
- Display:
- Header
- A widget header displays the name of an item of content, at the top of a widget. For reports, for example, the name is specified
in the General tab of the Report Properties pane in Application Studio. You can select to display the widget header by switching on this option.
By default the widget headers are not displayed. You can enable the option to create new widgets with headers in the Settings.
- Collapsing Direction
- You can specify that a widget can be collapsed in a selected direction. Collapsing widgets saves space and is useful when you want to keep a widget on your dashboard, but, for example, you do not use this widget on a daily-basis.
- Layout:
- Fill Horizontally and Fill Vertically
- You can specify that a widget automatically occupies all available space at its left and right or above it and below it.
- You can position further widgets at either end of a widget with horizontal or vertical fill. Drag a widget over the filled widget and drop it when the hotspot is displayed.
- Widget Margins
- You can specify if to use the widget margins.
By default the widget margins are disabled. You can enable the option to create new widgets with margins in the Settings.
Note: By default, the marins are set to 10 pixels. The size of the widget margins is set at the application level in Repository Administration.
WebView widgets
- General:
- URL
- The URL of the target content of the WbView widget.
- Parameters
- You can use parameter connections to link widgets on a dashboard. For WebViews, you create the parameters from parts of the URL. For example, if the URL contained location information, you could make a location parameter from that part of the URL and use it in communication between widgets. Unlike report parameters, WebView parameters cannot be automatically added to a parameter network.
- Allow Scrolling
- If the content of a WebView is too large for the widget, scroll bars are displayed. To remove the scroll bars and disable scrolling, turn off .
- Privileged Content
- You can switch on the privileged content option that opens the WebView content that is blocked by default.
- Display:
- Header
- A widget header displays the name of an item of content, at the top of a widget. You can select to display the widget header
by switching on this option.
By default, the widget headers are not displayed. You can enable the option to create new widgets with headers in the Settings.
- Collapsing Direction
- You can specify that a widget can be collapsed in a selected direction. Collapsing widgets saves space and is useful when you want to keep a widget on your dashboard, but, for example, you do not use this widget on a daily-basis.
- Layout:
- Fill Horizontally and Fill Vertically
- You can specify that a widget automatically occupies all available space at its left and right or above it and below it.
- You can position further widgets at either end of a widget with horizontal or vertical fill. Drag a widget over the filled widget and drop it when the hotspot is displayed.
- Widget Margins
- You can specify if to use the widget margins.
By default the widget margins are disabled. You can enable the option to create new widgets with margins in the Settings.
Note: By default, the marins are set to 10 pixels. The size of the widget margins is set at the application level in Repository Administration.