Story Preferences and Details

Set your story preferences to specify default formatting options in a story (such as the page size and background color) and set your story details to specify how to open the story.

Preferences: Applying Page Settings

From the file menu select (Edit Story) Preferences.
Select Page Settings.

Select the default page settings for your story.

The following page settings are available for Canvas Pages:

Formatting Option	Description
Default Page Background	Select a default background color for the pages in your story.
Default Page Size	Select On to set the default page size in your story. You can select a predetermined size from the list (Letter, Legal, Tabloid, A3, A4, B4, B5) or set a custom size by entering the page width and height in pixels. Note Before you can change the page size, you may need to rearrange tiles in your canvas to fit the new size.

The following page settings are available for Responsive Pages:

Formatting Option	Description
Default Page Properties	Select a default background color and the grid spacing for the pages in your story.
Default Lane Title Properties	Select On to show the page title. You can also select the title style, font, size, color, and alignment.

Select if you want to apply the new page settings to new pages, lanes, and tiles only or to all pages, lanes, and tiles currently in your story.
Select OK.

Preferences: Applying Tile Settings

From the file menu select (Edit Story) Preferences.
Select Tile Settings.

Select the default tile settings for your story. The following tile settings are available:

Formatting Options	Description
Charts/Geo	Default Tile Background – select a default background color for the chart tiles in your story. Default Text – select a default font and text color for the chart tiles in your story. Default Color Palettes – select the default color palettes for charts and geomaps in your story. Default Axis Line Color – select the default axis line color for charts in your story.
Tables	Default Tile Background – select a default background color for the text tiles in your story. Default Text – select a default font and text color for the following text in table tiles: All Text, Title, Subtitle. Default Styling Template – select a styling template. For example, Standard, Report-Styling or Alternating Rows. Default Threshold Style – select a default format for threshold values. Symbol (default) – use the story-defined symbols and colors for the threshold ranges. Color Values – the threshold colors are applied to the cell data. Color Background – the threshold colors are applied to the cell background. Color Background Without Values – the threshold colors are applied to the cell background and the values are hidden.
Text	Default Tile Background – select a default background color for the text tiles in your story. Default Text – select a default font and text color for the text tiles in your story.
Shapes	Default Tile Background – select a default background color for the shape tiles in your story.
Input Controls	Default Tile Background – select a default background color for the Input Control tiles in your story. Default Text – select a default font and text color for the Input Control tiles in your story.
Others	Default Tile Background – select a default background color for the other tiles in your story. Default Text – select a default font and text color for the other tiles in your story.

Select if you want to apply the new tile settings to new pages and tiles only or to all pages and tiles currently in your story.
Select OK.

Story Details

There are some options that can be set for the entire story.

Translation: You can create a request to have a translation service translate the story descriptions. For more information on story translation, see Enabling a Story for Translation.

Viewer Settings: Stories usually open in Story View Mode but you can change it to open in Explorer instead.

However, Explorer mode is not available in the following circumstances:

Using the mobile application.
Using Mobile Safari in Embed mode.
Enable Explorer is not on for any chart or table.

Explorer Settings: Enable Explorer for all Charts and Tables overrides the state of any Enable Explorer settings that are already applied to charts and tables. However, it does not reset those settings. When you turn off the story-level setting, the charts and tables will go back to using the Enable Explorer setting.