When you finish designing one or more dashboard sections, save the current dashboard designs before they are resized by Layout Manager. This way, when a user clicks 
in a dashboard section, Layout Manager restores the section to your saved design.
To save a dashboard design as default:
In Interactive Reporting Studio, open a dashboard and navigate to Layout Properties.
To access the configuration frame, use Sections or the Configuration drop-down list found in Dashboard Studio.
From Dashboard Sections, select one or more dashboard sections.
Click
to move to the selected dashboard.The dashboard is activated and resized.
Optional. Go into Design mode, fine tune any shape placements and sizes, and exit Design mode.
Use the back button to return to Layout Properties.
Click
to save the current state of the selected dashboard section as its default design.Repeat steps 2 - 6 for each section
Note:
Dashboard designs are automatically saved when you create a dashboard section in the Wizard and associate it in Step 4, or when you use Layout Manager to upgrade a pre-Release 11.1.1 dashboard to the current release.
Note:
Designers use ESM dashboards, whereas end users most likely use runtime dashboards. The Section Catalog pane is visible in ESM, whereas it is hidden in runtime. This means that the available screen area for dashboard content is greater for end users than it is for designers. Designers should compensate for this by using a higher resolution display to get the extra screen area required to see both the catalog and the end users larger content area, or by using the same resolution display as the end users and hiding the catalog.