Hey everyone,
I ran into a sizing issue with my Tableau Story published on Tableau Public and wanted to share what I found — and hopefully get some input from people with more experience.
Here's the story if it helps to see it directly:
https://public.tableau.com/views/ai_jobmarket/AITheFutureofWorkADataStory?:language=de-DE&:sid=&:redirect=auth&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link
**The problem:** My Story looked fine on my screen but was a mess on other screens — text cut off, layout broken. Turned out everything was set to Automatic, which sounds flexible but doesn't actually scale text objects.
**What I tried:**
- Switched all dashboards and the Story to Fixed size at 1200x800
- Scrollbars appeared in both the Tableau Desktop app and on Tableau Public in the browser
- Tried reducing dashboard size to ~1184x680 to account for the Story chrome — helped in the app but felt like a big reduction
- Tried switching story navigator from caption boxes to dots — marginal improvement
**What ended up working:** Keeping the dashboards at 1200x800 but setting the Story itself to 1400x1000. Scrollbars gone, content looks clean.
I'm not 100% sure this is the "right" solution though — it feels a bit like a workaround. Does anyone have a go-to size combination for Stories and dashboards that works reliably on Tableau Public? Would love to know what sizes you typically design for.
Thanks!
Hi, as you were using the Cover Image (4), this was set to 1350 x 840. So, I replaced the Cover with the Cover Image that was set to 1200 x 800.
Thus:
a. Setting all dashboards to the same size is correct. In your case, your Cover Image (4) was 1350 x 840, so this forced you to use a 1400 x 1000 size in the Story. Using the Cover Image instead, you may reduce the size of Story.
b. As a recomendation for story, you can manage +30px of your base width (1200px + 30 px) and for the height your base height + 175px (800px + 175px). Following this guidelines you may use a bigger size for the width or height. However, make sure all the pages (Dashboards) uses the same size.
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Regards,
Diego Martinez
Tableau Visionary and Tableau Ambassador
