Hi Kathy - This thread was meant to discuss how meeting/calls are accounted for from a resource planning perspective. I was hoping for a solution that would work for all project types and for meetings that are both planned (part of the project plan) and unplanned (added as an issue on the project) -...

The variety in these suggestings is amazing so thanks, everyone! It seems the different needs dictate different solutions. I'll attempt to distil solutions a little. Problem: Account for project meetings and calls to make resource planning more accurate Solutions: A: Add tasks (planned) or issues (u...

Very helpful thank you Eric, Adina, & Doug. I forgot there were so many Workfront apps out there like UberCal in the Workfront Marketplace/Apps< ">https://www.workfront.com/enterprise/marketplace/apps/?page=3> ________________________________

I am actually more interested in counting deliverables not general assets. In my workflow a list of project Deliverables might be 10 ads (10 .jpg files) and 3 campaign landing pages (3 html files). These are what I am trying to track more accurately. The Assets in this scenario would be the supporti...

Eric - thank you for the approaches, they are certainly helpful. These types of meetings and calls are not necessarily related to specific projects which make them hard to work into a project plan. They often happen same day or a couple days in advance. The goal here is having a Worker's weekly reso...

When a designer or developer has meetings or calls that are not accounted for in WF those times are seen as gaps in resource management availability. Is there any tried and true solution/work-around for this? I was thinking of a project when they can self-assign tasks/hours for meetings/calls etc ...

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Hi Workfront Community! I use Workfront on a daily basis currently for a couple hours a day. An amazing community to me is one that offers: A community that makes old/new/prospective users aware of what's happening. Gives news users a chance to ask noob questions and advanced users a chance ...

Thanks David (and others!) for the replies. Those are helpful suggestions indeed and I like the duration type color code. Experienced project managers certainly help, I just wanted to illustrate the experience I see. I also am a big advocate of leaving the defaults and customizing templates. If ...

I am still quite a newbie here with Workfront but I wanted to point out a concept that many new users (including project managers) are having a hard time grasping. That is the simple, but all important, task. Let's just take a newbie new, I feel like sometimes this is their experience: 1. Okay I...