Adobe Workfront

Due to my company's cloud structure, the IT team isn't able to install the encrypted Workfront InDesign Plugin that is available in the Creative Cloud, they need an unencrypted version to be able to install that plugin on our sessions. I don't know if other companies face this same issue, but we would love to be able to utilize this plugin in an effort to create more efficiencies, we just can't with the file that is currently available on the Creative Cloud.

Description - Flexibility in the time periods seen in workload balancer. Currently, the default starts on the sunday of a given week and does not update as the week progresses (i.e., on a friday, i can still only see sunday-saturday that week instead of being able to see the rolling week ahead). Why is this feature important to you - Our team uses workload balancer (previously scheduling) to view current volume across teams to decide task deadlines (especially when there is flexibility on when the work can be completed). Even when ungrouping the tasks from the project and removing completed tasks, the current view is inefficient for the team as it can be cluttered, especially towards the end of the work week. How would you like the feature to work - dynamic date as the first date seen that either auto adjusts to the current date or allows user to customize the first date they see. Current Behaviour - Currently, workload balancer starts on Sunday at the beginning of the time period sel

Description - Show the overall percent complete a portfolio is based on how far along the projects within that portfolio are. Why is this feature important to you - We have enterprise wide campaigns that consist of several projects. We put these projects into a portfolio to track how that campaign is going. It would great to see how much of that campaign is complete by showing the percentage complete for that portfolio. How would you like the feature to work - If a portfolio has 10 projects in it, and two are 100% complete and one is at 50% complete, then the portfolio would show that it's overall completion percent is 25% complete. This could be shown in the portfolio optimization page at the top, or be a filter when creating portfolio report. Current Behaviour - No option exists to track percent complete of a portfolio. 

Develop a way to tag the entire team on a specific project in an update other than typing each name individually or creating team for each project. If a team was created for each project, then someone would have to delete that team when the project is completed. This could lead to unwieldy amounts of teams if this step is forgotten.

Hi there, We need to know how long each approval stage is taking so what would be most value-add would be to implement a timestamp for each approval stage for audit purposes. Thanks,Jas

The ability to turn on/off various layers present on an Adobe Workfront file aka the uploaded PDF. While reviewing a document it would be invaluable to be able to turn on various layers in Workfront, those layers can indicate PMS colors, special effects, etc.   A simple layers palette similar to Acrobat would be the easiest and most direct solution as users would be most familiar with that approach.   Currently there is no layer access in Adobe Workfront.

The ability to copy and move expenses like tasks would be beneficial as we have many expenses that are repetitive each month and there re times expenses move from one project to another.

Description - Change the hours records count that is shown at the bottom of an hours tab of any object (or details tab of an hours report) to actually sum the hours that have been logged instead of showing a record count of hour entries Why is this feature important to you - The current labeling is misleading as it says "Hours" when it is actually a record count of each time hours were logged. There is currently no easy way to see the total sum of hours logged to an object without either creating an hours report and using a matrix, or exporting the hours and summing in excel. The record count of hours is not a useful metric. This has caused numerous people to provide an incorrect hours estimate due to poor labeling.  How would you like the feature to work - Show a sum of actual total hours logged to an object instead of a record count of entries Current Behaviour - Object hour totals are labeled as 'hours' when they are actually time log entry counts, rather than summing the hour

Description - Allow calculated field values to populate list of same field that can be used for drop down. Why is this feature important to you - I want to create separate IDs associated with certain projects and I want to be able to tie like projects to another project (it is our workaround for no real campaign object). How would you like the feature to work - A calculated field creates a value upon project creation when project type = campaign. The value generated will be "campaign-1234"; the field name will be "campaign custom ID" it is a calculated field. I want to then create a custom form for a non-campaign project object and on this form i want to have a drop down of the existing values in the "campaign custom ID" field.  That way, I can tie projects to one or many other campaign like projects. Current Behaviour - I don't believe there is currently an option to do this. 

It would be nice to hide the task condition update independently from just turning on or off system updates on task updates. Currently when someone clicks "Work on It" for a task an update is posted saying the task condition is "Going Smoothly". Our users don't agree that just because they start work on a task instantly means that everything is fine for the task. Showing this in the task updates causes a lot of confusion, but we don't want to turn off system updates since other system updates are important

I would like to have a way for Workfront to allow for a visual timeline of selected tasks and milestone. A graphical representation of those tasks selected. ‚ Timeline needs to answer: Portfolio wide, when are things ending? When can we start a project? A timeline for all the projects. A timeline for each separate project.

I would very much like to be able to make the Company field a required field. Also the ability to make Client Portfolio, Group, or Program/Campaign required. Basically, any of the fields within the Overview > Project association section.

When inside of a task, ability to go back to the same location in the overall template view without having to scroll all the way back down (to a lower task, for example) Users are asking for some sort of functionality which brings them back to the last place (section) they have been rather than the default of back to the top. This behavior persists for projects/templates.

Task #'s don't pull through by default when exporting - makes it difficult to reference when reviewing exported timelines.

Being able to click on an "Open Summary" preview (like you can in the Timeline level when you click on a task) at the reporting-level (or other objects potentially) would make things much easier to be able to easily view and respond without having to leave the report view itself. (Rather than opening a new tab or having to go back to the report every time)

Looking for a way to control the default view setting so that timelines with more than 100 tasks automatically show all tasks without having to choose “all” from drop-down

Can we please have report capabilities so that reports are segregated by task level, project level, etc?   It is hard to capture information in report when things dont all fall under task level for example

Description - Proof view to have ability for users to read from left to right in additional to "magazine" view and one-by-one view Why is this feature important to you - It makes Reviewers job easier to review an excel file that has columns across the page How would you like the feature to work - have additional proof view option  Current Behaviour - Reviewers struggle to review wider documents in Workfront

The way Updates are hidden (you can't tell if there are updates without going into the section). In my mind the whole purpose of the tool is to facilitate conversations about issues, but detaching this from the story and hiding the content makes it difficult. When there is an update, could there be a visual indicator until user clicks on update and reads it 

Description - A team would like to add Tasks to Programs -  Why is this feature important to you -to ensure that program initiatives are prioritized and completed - these Tasks would not align to a project, but would affect the Program. How would you like the feature to work - The team would add Tasks to a program as needed. Current Behaviour - No opportunity to add tasks directly to a program

Description - Product request: Add the time of error to the error email. The data exists (visible in Fusion) so this should be a trivial change. This would help us distinguish between late deliveries and new errors.    Why is this feature important to you - During Fusion "outages" (eg recently the datastore system failed and scenarios couldn't initiate) Fusion queues a ton of error notifications. In our case the emails kept coming in many hours after the issue was resolved.    When the Notifications contain the date of the error occurrence we can better filter "noise": Eg in above example I could filter out notifications for Oct 1, and still see all errors (even is same type) that occur on Oct 3.     How would you like the feature to work - Add the time of error to the error email. The data exists (visible in Fusion) so this should be a trivial change.   Current Behaviour - For the same error type, error message queued from a week ago is identical to

There have been many times when Workfront users will enter comments into a project and forget to include the right people or any people. This has caused so much frustration, delays, etc. that could have been avoided if Workfront had an option to send all comments on a project to the Owner and Sponsor. This can be a setting in the email notification per user, or at the admin level.

Description -  The Initiative name column is too narrow it only allows 23 characters.  Please allow this column width to be adjusted Why is this feature important to you -  In order to prioritize projects we need to be able to read more of the name. How would you like the feature to work -  Allow the column width to be adjustable Current Behaviour -  Its locked at 23 characters.

The fact that you cannot embed screenshots in the description or updates is a major flaw. I get that you can attach them as documents in a different tab, but they are difficult to open (you get either a tiny thumbnail that you cannot see or open it in a new window). Especially for bugs it is nice to say, "it looks like this: [X] " and I expected this: [X]" using inline images. We basically post these images and full description in Microsoft Teams because there is no other way.

I would like the typeahead field to be linked to whatever was selected. For instance, if the field was for project, someone types in a project. After that field has a saved entry, I'd like that text of the project name to now be an active link back to that project. It would be a great reference. I wanted to put it in our request queues as a link to a previous project they want us to reference in creating a new project. But with no active link, it doesn't make any sense to use that field.