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.

These properties apply to report and WebView widgets:

• Display:
  • Header

    A widget header displays the name of the report at the top of a widget. For reports, 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 horizontally and vertically.

  • 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.

    By default, the margins are set to 10 pixels. The size of the widget margins is set at the application level in Repository Administration.

Report widgets

These properties are specific to report widgets:

• General:
  • Jump Targets

    An Application Studio report can contain a jump to a target report. If a widget displays a report that contains a jump, you can specify whether the target report replaces the current content of the widget or is displayed full-screen as a new dashboard.

  • Content Connection

    The content connection that is 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.

WebView widgets

These properties are specific to WebView widgets:

• General:
  • URL

    The URL of the target content of the WebView 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 Allow Scrolling.

  • Privileged Content

    You can switch on the privileged content option that opens the WebView content that is blocked by default.