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 widget.

For configuration options, click the Properties icon on the widget's toolbar.

These properties apply to both report and WebView widgets:

  • Display tab:
    Header
    A widget header displays the name of an item of content, at the top of a widget. For reports, for example, the title is specified on the General tab of the widget properties. You can select to display the widget header by switching on this option.
    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 tab:
    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.
    Note: By default, the margins are set to 10 points. The size of the widget margins is set at the application level in EPM Administration.

Report widget properties

These properties are specific to report widgets:

  • General tab:
    Title
    The report title is listed on the General tab. It is displayed on the widget header if the header option is switched on.
    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 it is displayed full-screen as a new dashboard.
    Source
    Specifies the data source. The Source dialog box provides read-only information about the report: content connection, report name, and unique name. The content connection that is used is listed. You can use content connections to link widgets on a dashboard. For report content, report parameters are specified in Application Studio. The report and unique report names represent the Application Studio target report names.

WebView widget properties

  • General:
    Title
    The content title is listed on the General tab.
    URL
    The URL of the target content of the WebView widget.
    Parameters
    You can use parameter connections to link widgets on a dashboard. For WebView widgets, you can 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 connection.
    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 Scrolling.
    Privileged Content
    You can switch on the privileged content option that opens the WebView content that is blocked by default.
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