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jenmarti
Adobe Employee
jenmartiAdobe Employee
Adobe Employee
July 23, 2026

Webinar | Learn From Your Peers: Unlock the Power of Canvas Dashboards (August 26, 2026)

  • July 23, 2026
  • 9 replies
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Canvas Dashboards are more than just another reporting option in Adobe Workfront. They offer a powerful way to visualize, understand, and take action on your work. However, since they function differently from traditional reports, many teams either avoid using them or never fully realize their potential.

Watch the on-demand webinar for an interactive, practitioner-focused session featuring Skye Hansen, Lead Functional Architect at Merkle, and Matt Mitchell, Principal Product Manager at Adobe. Discover how to use Canvas Dashboards effectively with clear, practical guidance, without getting bogged down in configuration details.

Skye and Matt will explain how Canvas Dashboards fit into the broader Workfront reporting landscape, highlight their advantages over other report types, and show you how to build dashboards that people actually use.

Specifically, you’ll learn:

  • How Canvas Dashboards integrate with the Workfront reporting landscape and the unique capabilities they offer beyond standard reports and dashboards.
  • When and why to choose Canvas Dashboards over other report types, so you can select the best reporting tool for your needs.
  • How to get started building Canvas Dashboards, including hands-on tips for two core report types that you can apply right away.
  • What’s new in Canvas Dashboards and how to use the latest features, so you can confidently decide when and how to leverage Canvas in your workflow.

View the on-demand webinar: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/on-demand-events/power-canvas-dashboards

      9 replies

      brittanylang
      User Group Leader
      brittanylangUser Group Leader
      User Group Leader
      July 23, 2026

      Excited for this and to see what is upcoming in this space. I am amazed at how far canvas dashboards have come. We recently were able to leverage a large canvas dashboard as a primary source of information for a major resourcing/capacity initiative. The customizable dashboard-level filters are SUCH a game-changer. Thank you to the team working so hard on this! 🙌🏻

      Brittany Lang - Fusion Architect/Automation Developer + Workfront Admin at Thermo Fisher Scientific
        Heather_Kulbacki
        Community Advisor
        Heather_KulbackiCommunity Advisor
        Community Advisor
        August 28, 2026

        If you’re looking for topics for an IN WUG meeting, I’d love to see the resourcing/capacity dashboard in canvas… 😁

        brittanylang
        User Group Leader
        brittanylangUser Group Leader
        User Group Leader
        August 28, 2026

        We’ve sadly already had to pause on using the new one in canvas because there’s a bug where canvas dashboards are only showing table reports created in canvas to admins even though the non-admins have full access to the dashboard. They get an error. So until Adobe support fixes that (they’ve been working on it for weeks now), we’re back in traditional dashboards. I am so excited for when it is back in action though - those dashboard-level filters are life-changing. 😊

         

        I’d love to share sometime though if people are interested in that topic. Our capacity is completely outside of the workload balancer/spread work over days/scroll back to previous weeks to see remaining work/shift between projected dates framework now and it is wonderful. It was a HUGE Fusion commitment to stand up though, so maybe not the solution for all orgs, but anything can help. 😉

        Brittany Lang - Fusion Architect/Automation Developer + Workfront Admin at Thermo Fisher Scientific
          Heather_Kulbacki
          Community Advisor
          Heather_KulbackiCommunity Advisor
          Community Advisor
          August 28, 2026

          What am I missing if I don’t have the “Create Report” box when creating a new Canvas Dashboard?

          From the slides: 

          What I see: 

           

          brittanylang
          User Group Leader
          brittanylangUser Group Leader
          User Group Leader
          August 28, 2026

          Oh strange! I would’ve asked anyone else to double-check their access level/license type on that level but know that shouldn’t be an issue with you and you would’ve already checked that. And you can clearly create a canvas dashboard, so you have it enabled. Might not hurt to put it in as a ticket since it’s still in beta. Although I will say it seems very far along in a beta because, other than that bug, there is so much functionality available! 😊

          Brittany Lang - Fusion Architect/Automation Developer + Workfront Admin at Thermo Fisher Scientific
          _Manish_Singh
          _Manish_Singh
          Level 9
          August 31, 2026

          Hello,

          Do you know when the new objects custom data will be available? We are looking forward to the Assignment form, which we’ve needed for a long time.

           

          _Manish_Singh
          _Manish_Singh
          Level 9
          August 31, 2026

          Hi, The feedback form doesn’t have an option for a feature request, but I would like to suggest adding Gantt charts to the canvas dashboards in the future (similar to Planning records but for Workfront objects).

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