Adobe Workfront

Adding this ability would support project managers especially when they are working on very large projects - currently we manage with exception reports, but this feature would drastically reduce time needed to chase Task Assignees

Description -Why is this feature important to you - This has been an ask from long, I understand we can do this via fusion today, but having this provisioned via custom form will be of great help. This will not only help user not to get confused what topic queue option to choose but just by choosing the right option between the form like what deliverables they are looking for will bring them additional fields to detail out and submit the request.  Also helps admin not to create all general fields for all the forms.  How would you like the feature to work - This comes in handy when we are looking for integrated custom forms. When we open a custom form we should be straight going to filling form to basic or general details. Followed by to choose what one is looking for and choose the same to fill in as they submit the request. eg., General information fields that any subgroup might want to have like geo, budget, business areas, industries etc. With a section break to choos

Description -Why is this feature important to you - This feature is crucial for us because we have customized work times for our team, which we use to analyse capacity and assign tasks.How would you like the feature to work - It will allow us to compare the users' actual logged hours to their assigned planned hours in relation to their total availability. For example, if a user's total availability is 50%, that will be taken into account when allocating scheduled hours. We may compare apples to apples when we use a secondary axis to plot this data, with a line chart spanning the planned and actual labour hours.Current Behaviour - Currently, we are unable to generate reports based on work time, which reflects the available time. We can only compare planned and actual hours without considering the specific work times of user.

We've noticed that there are no captions available on the training videos Workfront provides on the Workfront Experience site, and in Ascent. Because of this, your videos are currently inaccessible for people who are deaf, or hard of hearing, and can be inconvenient for people in open work settings as well. Please consider adding captioning to your video production process, to ensure all your customers and their users can easily access the training materials you provide. Even auto-generated captions would be better than nothing, though hand-transcribed captions would be more accurate. The continuous consideration of accessibility in user interface design and training materials is a significant factor in our institution's choice of vendors, as I am sure it is for many other educational and state institutions as well.

Need the ability to import MS Project files into existing projects in Workfront.  Our business operations requires us to use MSP and the current work-around creates a bottle neck situation in our workflow.

Description - I would like delegated work to be viewable through the Workload BalancerWhy is this feature important to you - Delegated work is owned by the delegee unless it is reassigned. It is important that Resource Planners are aware of all work on this extra responsibility to avoid over scheduling the individual.How would you like the feature to work - I would like to see delegated work automatically being viewable through the Workload Balancer. This could be set/controlled at company / group level, or shown as an option in the Workload Balancer settings.Current Behaviour - Delegated work sits within the original assignee schedule even though they have delegated it to someone else. There could be a hard deadline for this work, and until it is physically reassigned by the delegee, Traffic Managers can book that time in the delegee's schedule, thus making a problem. 

Add "language" as a native field to users, and allow language to be an option at project/task level. This could then be used as a pre existing filter in Project workload balancer or used in your AI assignment suggestions. the same could also be done for "skills and certifications" For a truly global agency model that uses off shore and near shore creating these fields and pre filters or AI suggestions would allow all markets to manage offshore and near shore employees capacity better. as well as better manage multicultural/multi language global projects.

As a manager, I want to delegate my timesheet approval decisions, in order to ensure continuity over short and long term absences.When a manager is on short or long-term absence, there is currently no way to delegate their approvals to another operational manager using the current features available (i.e. delegate approvals).This requires a System Admin to go in and manually update the direct reports manager field and subsequently update the direct reports approver on their individual timesheets.Similar to how project, task and issue approvals can be delegated; it would be great to enable timesheet approvals as well.

Description - In Documents, as an option under "Add New", having the ability to link to a document already uploaded to Workfront in another location (ex. Project or Program). Why is this feature important to you - Linking rather than re-uploading would be more efficient and reduce the risk of uploading different versions.  How would you like the feature to work - Adding the option to link from Workfront in the "Add New" dropdown menu on the Documents page. Ideally, there would be a way to see under which program or project that file lives. Also, that if you updated that file, links would update to the newest version.  Current Behaviour - Uploading fresh pdfs each time or linking to files located elsewhere. We are trying to get firmwide buy-in that Workfront is the place to find our most current files. 

In the bottom right of the Hours tab of a project, it shows what I THOUGHT was the total hours of any project/task time logged in the project. Example below. It used to add the hours so you could see total hours easily without having to add up each entry (I understand you can get the totals in reports, but should be possible from the project too). Somewhere along the way this changed to show the number of hour ENTRIES logged in the project. This is no help. WF, please consider changing this to have the total hours OR please change this verbiage to say 'Showing 32 hour entries' to make this clear. Thank you! I confirmed with WF that this is apparently not a bug and they said this has been like this for several months, meaning it didn't always used to be like this. Very misleading.

Ability to proof email files (.eml) in the proofing tool

Why is this feature important to you - For us not to create the custom form that we created in Sandbox again, especially if the custom form is complex, we don't need to recreate it again from the start.How would you like the feature to work - Add to the options in Packages in Environmental Promotion.Current Behavior - No Custom form in Environmental Promotion

We have a variety of user types in Workfront with varying notification needs. And with over 16,000 users, it’s not feasible to manage their preferences manually. Enabling notifications globally in Workfront activates all options for all users by default, resulting in an overload of notifications. Our goal is to provide users with appropriate notification levels initially, with the ability to opt for more if desired. Issues:There is currently no way to activate notification options, but set them to “off” by default.There's no automated way to adjust notifications for users through Fusion.Our organization relies on parent/subgroup relationships for object sharing and reporting using home group wildcards. Unfortunately, email notifications can only be controlled by parent home groups. Utilizing this for email control would force a significant restructuring of our access hierarchy. Proposed Solutions:Enable global notifications to be activated but set to "off" by default.Add APIs

When inside a proof have the ability to click "Next Proof" to not have to close out and go back to documents to load next proof.  Would cut down on time spent reviewing and marking up different files especially when there can be up to 12-16 sizes of an asset to review. Similar functionality is there when you're previewing a file and you can click next to the next file. 

Description: When I tag a user in a comment on a card, I expect the user to be notified. However, the tagged user is not notified if it is on an ad hoc/unconnected card.• tagging can be done via @username or in the search box at the bottom of the commenting area Why is this feature important to youThis functionality is important because the current behavior is misleading. The person adding the comment and tagging another user assumes the tagged user will be notified, since that functionality exists in all other areas of Workfront, including on connected cards. How would you like the feature to workCommenting and tagging a user on an ad hoc/unconnected card should behave the same way it works on connected cards, and other areas within Workfront - the tagged user will receive an email notification. Current BehaviorThe comment is displayed on the card, but no one is aware of it unless they just happen to stumble across it.

Description - We use the Workfront for Microsoft Teams plug-in and what we're finding is that when we get an approval request to approve a proof the notification does not include the proof name or the project title that the proof is part of. It simply says the proof owner wants you to approve the proof, with a button to "Go to proof" or to "Comment".When I get a new issue (e.g., packaging request) it includes the title of the new issue/request with the live link to that issue, and when I get a new update on a proof (where someone else has added a comment to a proof that I am on) the notification in Teams includes the name of the document and the project title with live links to both of them.So you have to click on the Approval Request notification to go through to the proof in order to see which proof and which project it is for. Is there a way of including that in the Teams notification?  Why is this feature important to you - It would increase time efficiency as i

Description - An admin function to copy a report definition from one environment to another, such as from sandbox to production.Why is this feature important to you - It will make admins life a lot easier to build/edit complicated reports in sandbox first and migrate the changes to production.How would you like the feature to work - It could work as part of the kickstart tools, by exporting the definition of a report and import to another environment.

We needs the ability to test in a sandbox and once testing is successfully completed, move the changes made to production.

Description - Provide the ability to select only tasks with particular milestone IDs attached to them show in the project report, and not all of the tasks that have milestones attached to them. Why is this feature important to you - Showing all of the tasks that have milestone IDs attached to them clutters the report, specially if not all milestones in a particular path are added to all of the tasks in different projects. Also, the report is not scrollable left to right and vice versa, unless scrolling all the way down to the end of the report; so it won't be possible to see all of the milestones status on one page if the number of milestones are more than 5 or 6, other than by scrolling all the way down to the end of report to scroll to left and right, and then scrolling up all the way to see milestones status on a particular project. How would you like the feature to work - I would like there be fields in the filter for Template/Project Milestone Task ID so that I can

Description - Add a sort feature to allow proof participants to see comments on a proof to appear in order from the top of the page to the bottom of the page Why is this feature important to you - Our users may go back into proofs to add comments or go back to prior pages to add comments. Right now proof participants can see comments per page but they are in order of entry (either from oldest to newest or newest to oldest) but not in order on how they appear on the page. This can affect how Studio implements the changes.  How would you like the feature to work - I would like there to be an option to filter comments by page and then a sort feature to put them in order as they appear on the page like how comments appear in an Adobe Acrobat PDF Current Behaviour - The comments can bounce around from the top to the bottom back to the top and back to the bottom of the page based on when they were entered instead of aligning them in order from top to bottom on the page

Description - Allow for the addition or removal of header fields on the Program object within layout templates.  This functionality is currently available for the project, task, and issue objects.   Why is this feature important to you - Since some of the standard fields that appear in this section on each program are not always accurate or aligned with how we do our calculations, when we're showing a client a program (weekly status meeting), we don't want to cause confusion for our clients.   How would you like the feature to work - Allow admins to add/remove program fields from the field header section in layout templates   Current Behaviour - System doesn't allow you to add/remove field headers for the program object

Description - Assurance Logo physical position fix on the screenWhy is this feature important to you - It appears at top left corner and is hindering with elements that are clickable How would you like the feature to work - It should be retractable when cursor is moved on top of logo so that item beneath can be clicked.Current Behavior - It blocks the button below it and makes it unclickable.

It would be nice to have the ability to bulk change the owner of a report or calendar instead of having to make a copy so it will rename who owns it. We just had our main system admin leave who set up the system years ago and having a bulk feature to remove her name and add another Admin would be so beneficial.

Ability to view comments that were initially on a pdf document before uploading into Workfront. You are able to view the comments when uploading pdf as a document; however, when converting into a proof or using the pdf to create a proof initially, you do not get to see any of the comments (only the marks on the document itself) To add this feature would be awesome to resolve since most of us deal with external partners that don't have any sort of management system to comment on assets and rely on Adobe Acrobat to include comments and edit changesAfter all, Adobe now owns Workfront so it would be in their best interest to have their product work exclusively within any of their other systems :)

Description - Add ability to convert a request to an overall program Why is this feature important to you - Often multiple projects are needed within one program How would you like the feature to work - Similar to converting a request to a project, except it converts it to a program Current Behaviour - Not possible right now