Automatic Dashboard Sizing

Rationale

The VIZYUL™ Automatic Dashboard Sizing best practice rule fires for each dashboard that uses the automatic sizing setting.

Insight

The Automatic Dashboard size setting allows you to create a Dashboard that fills the screen of the dashboard viewer.

Consider this, dashboards that use automatic dashboards sizing adapt to the amount of screen space available on the device used to view the dashboard.  Basically this means unless everyone viewing your dashboard has the exact same resolution, it’s quite likely that your dashboard will re-size itself in an unattractive and possibly incomprehensible way.

Action

VIZYUL™ Tableau authors recommend considering the type of devices your audience will use while viewing your dashboard.  Once you know the range of these devices and their screen resolutions, you’re armed to make a quality decision on the appropriate size of your dashboard.

Additional Resources

• http://kb.tableau.com/articles/knowledgebase/fixed-size-dashboard
• http://kb.tableau.com/articles/knowledgebase/best-practices-designing-vizes-and-dashboards