Workflow canvas positioned correctly when tab is backgrounded
Workflow canvases now correctly position themselves when users return to a browser tab that was in the background when workflow generation finished — no more stuck or misaligned views.
When n8n workflows are accessed in a browser tab that was hidden during generation, the canvas viewport was incorrectly positioned. This happens because VueFlow — the graph-rendering library powering the canvas — reports zero container dimensions when a tab is hidden, falling back to a default 500×500 viewport that places the workflow off-center or at the wrong zoom level.
The fix detects when viewport positioning runs while the tab is hidden, then re-applies it once the tab becomes visible. Canvas resize adjustments are also skipped when the prior measurement came from a hidden state, preventing meaningless dimension deltas (like 500→769) from shifting the viewport away from where it was just correctly placed.
This resolves the issue for AI artifacts workflows specifically while remaining invisible during normal foreground tab usage — it only activates when the problematic sequence occurs.
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Summary
On instance AI artifacts if the tab was on background while WF generation finished we failed to position the canvas correctly. Add logic to reposition it correctly when visibility changes in that case. This shouldn't affect the regular canvas view in negative / noticeable way.
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Notion: Workflow artifact does zoom/fit wrong
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