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cathycr1
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July 27, 2026
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Copy Legacy Workfront Templates to Cloud Storage

  • July 27, 2026
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We would like to move to Adobe Cloud Storage so we can take advantage of the new Unified Approvals with Frame.io. However, doing so would require us to manually recreate all of our Workfront Legacy project templates—more than 200 in total. While I understand that projects can be created manually from a legacy template, that does not meet our needs because we use Fusion and Kickstart to load most of our projects. In addition, each template includes required fields within forms that cannot be completed until the project reaches specific tasks. Currently, there does not appear to be a way to manually create a project without completing all required fields. The folder structure also does not carry over to a cloud project, so that would need to be recreated manually for each project. Is the ability to copy project templates to Adobe Cloud Storage on the roadmap? If we need to recreate the folders manually, that would be manageable; our main concern is avoiding the need to manually rebuild more than 200 templates.

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    ElvinM
    ElvinM
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    July 28, 2026

    When I had this conversation with support the answer was to do the following:

    1. Go to “New Project from Template”
    2. Select a template
    3. Click the “Create this project on Adobe cloud storage” checkbox. If you have documents or items stored in the template they will NOT transfer and need to be re-created.
    4. Create project.
    5. Save project as a template. The new template will now be on Adobe cloud storage.

    They did not have an answer to your question about automating this or making it easier. Not ideal and not something I want to do for the 100’s of templates we have, but I guess if you’re desperate it does work.

    I also found that the Frame.io viewer operates as a separate app and requires the user to create a login. After logging in to Frame.io it takes you to the viewer in Workfront. Again not ideal.

    They also did not have answers about Adobe cloud storage limits since they do not have integrations with any other service once you move to cloud storage (no box, no onedrive, etc...).

    Overall, it seems to be a very early implementation and is not integrated well.

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