Workfront Community Lens: June 2025

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Welcome Back to the Adobe Workfront Customer Newsletter!  
 

In this Issue:  

• A new Perspectives article on acquiring a Workfront certification, from Community veterans and Advisors Skye and Kurt 
• The H1 2025 review of Community Ideas is out now, check out the updates in the dedicated blog post
• View the 8-step strategic guide on how to build simple and effective reports in Workfront
• Don't miss the changes coming to Microsoft Teams and Outlook and how they affect the Workfront integration
• Adobe Workfront was named a leader in The Forrester Wave for the third time
• And much more! 

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Ask Me Anything about Workfront Certifications 

Ready to boost your career with Adobe Workfront certification but not sure where to start? Review our Ask Me Anything Session from June 10th, where Adobe's certifications manager and expert Community Advisors Skye H. and Kurt J. answered several questions about acquiring a Workfront certification. Whether you're wondering about the difference between Professional and Expert levels, need study strategies, or want to know if textmode is required—no question is off limits. Certifications offercareer advancement, increased earning potential, and client credibility, plus a shareable digital badge to showcase your expertise. This is your chance to get insider tips from both Adobe employees and certified customers who've been in your shoes! Check out all the AMA responses now. 

In case you missed in, don't forget to check out our prior AMA event on Workfront Proof!

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From volunteer to top-tier: Our Adobe Workfront certification journey 

If you’d like to learn even more about their Certification journey, Skye and Kurt co-authored an Experience League Perspective article covering their experiences. Discover the exact steps Kurt and Skye took to become certified Workfront experts, commanding respect and higher salaries. Learn about Kurt's zero-to-hero journey supporting 350+ marketers without any tech background and Skye's strategy for building out Workfront across 4 different companies. You’ll also dive into the pivotal Adobe training resources they used and the importance of leveraging the Experience League Company. Don't stay stuck - see their proven playbook for turning Workfront expertise into career gold. Read their Perspectives article here. 

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H1 2025 Workfront Community Ideas Review 

We’re excited to share that the 2025 H1 Community Ideas review is now live! This is a bi-annual review cycle where the Workfront Product team responds to and considers Community ideas for the product roadmap. Please note that ideas need to be less than 2 years old to be considered.  

In this cycle:  

• 31 ideas were responded to, with 7 net new ideas and 24 rolling over from the last period  
• 17 ideas were updated to a different stage  
• 4 ideas were moved to a commit stage (Accepted or Delivered), with 2 moving to Accepted and 2 moving to Delivered  
• 4 ideas were moved to the Decline stage   

To learn more, check out our announcement on the Community, and let us know your thoughts in the comment section! 

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NEW! Reporting 8-Step Guide 

Reporting in Workfront can feel like a maze. With so many fields, filters, views, and groupings, it’s easy to get stuck wondering: Where do I even start?  

That’s exactly why we created the strategic guide, 8 Steps to Create Simple, Effective Reports in Adobe Workfront—a practical and comprehensive checklist to help you cut through the confusion and start building reports that are clear, purposeful, and easy to use while providing resources and recommendations to help you along the way.  

This guide isn’t designed to replace the in-depth reporting training available on either Experience League or Adobe Digital Learning Services. Instead, it complements those resources—acting as a hands-on starting point or quick reference tool that can easily be shared with your team. 

Download the guide here! 

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New Blueprint Released: Workfront Training for New Users 

Are you responsible for training new Workfront users? Exciting news! We're thrilled to unveil our brand-new blueprint, Workfront Training for New Users. We know user training can be time-consuming, so we've curated three fantastic project templates tailored to different personas: Project Managers, Workers/Assignees, and Contributors/Requestors/Reviewers. These templates are packed with foundational Experience League links to help new users master Workfront and get their work done efficiently.  
 
Don't miss out! Head over to the Community now to dive into the Workfront Training for New Users blueprint! 

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Speed Over Perfection: Why Content Velocity is a Gamechanger 

Content demands are exploding in 2025—Adobe reports 43% of marketers must dramatically increase output while maintaining personalization, yet most organizations are struggling with outdated content supply chains. The secret to staying competitive? A hidden Adobe Workfront feature that most teams completely overlook. By leveraging "secret values" in custom forms, savvy marketers are automating prioritization, streamlining workflows, and accelerating content velocity at scale. Read more about leveraging these values in this blog by consultant Jenn M.! 

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Workfront for “New” Microsoft Teams – Update 

Microsoft will end the availability of Classic Teams client on July 1, 2025. In preparation, we are developing a new version of the Microsoft Teams integration that will be fully compatible with the New Teams client and available before July 1 to ensure a smooth transition. 

Details on how customers can download and install the integration in the New Teams client will appear on Experience League after the integration is available. 

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Workfront for Microsoft Outlook – Update

Microsoft is in the process of disabling support for legacy Exchange online tokens, which are currently used by the Workfront Outlook add-in for authentication. After Microsoft fully disables these tokens, the Workfront for Microsoft Outlook integration will no longer function.  

As part of this change, Microsoft has made the decision to change the way tokens are re-enabled. After June 30, 2025, admins will no longer be able to re-enable tokens themselves—only Microsoft Support can grant exceptions. After October 1, legacy tokens will be turned off for all tenants. Exceptions will not be granted. 

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Forrester Names Adobe Workfront a Leader (Again!) 

 Exciting news! Adobe has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Collaborative Work Management Tools 2025 report for the third consecutive time! 

Adobe Workfront achieved high scores in “Strength of offering”, with Forrester finding that “Adobe Workfront’s enterprise capabilities are among the strongest.” Adobe Workfront was also called out as a customer favorite, based on direct interviews. A huge thank you to all of you - our amazing customers - for your continued support and partnership. This recognition wouldn’t be possible without you!  

Access the full report here 

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 Building custom UIs with Fusion (Part 1 and 2) 

Sometimes certain UIs requested by your stakeholders may be hard to realize in core Workfront. In this blog by Community Advisor Sven N., he covers a unique Fusion webhook approach that fills the gap. Learn how to transform Fusion into a custom dashboard generator using webhooks, HTML templates, and external pages—complete with real examples like template backup systems and milestone reporting tools that work. The method leverages Fusion's existing modules to create interactive dashboards that solve requests you previously had to decline, turning limitations into opportunities for advanced solutions. Read the full technical walkthrough and implementation guide.  

In the second part of this walk through, Sven covers conditional branching for program ID lookups, webhook parameter handling, and the exact Fusion expressions required to make dynamic searches work across project and program contexts. See the complete scenario breakdown with real examples here. 

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Have You Joined a Workfront User Group Yet? 

The new Workfront User Groups (WUGs) are off and running! These are customer-led groups that bring together regional Workfronters virtually and/or in-person to share best practices and tips, network, learn, grow, and have fun. 

• Find and join a chapter near you
• Attend an upcoming event
• Don’t see a region near you? Start a chapter

Hope to see you soon! 

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 Training 

Experience League Training Updates 

Check out the latest updates to our Workfront Training videos! 

• Understand multiple billing rates: Within Workfront, a project manager has the ability to override system billing rates within a specific project. 
• Find financial information: Discover how to efficiently access, analyze, and manage financial data for projects and tasks, covering budgets, revenue, costs, and performance metrics at both project and task levels. 
• Update finances: Learn how to review the financial information associated with a project in Adobe Workfront. 
• Understand financial access: Financial access rights allow administrators to control who can see and edit the financial information tracked in Workfront. 
• Set up expense types: Learn how to use pre-built expense types when entering expenses, and how to create new expense types. 
• Set up exchange rates: Exchange rates can be used on projects and reports to reflect financial information in different currencies from around the world. 
• Set up task revenue & cost defaults: The revenue type and cost type are used to calculate the planned and actual financial information for a task. 
• Understand performance metrics: Discover adaptable financial performance metrics with flexible calculation methods, global defaults, and project-level overrides, empowering administrators and project managers to effectively tailor financial metrics to project needs. 
• Understand reporting components: Learn the key components behind Adobe Workfront and how they are used in a reporting element. 
• Create a basic filter: Learn what a filter is, how to create and modify a filter, and how to share a filter in Adobe Workfront. 
• Create reports with charts: How charts can improve the visualization of data, and how to use Adobe Workfront's chart tools. 
• Workfront for Outlook: Integrate Outlook and Adobe Workfront. 
• Create a basic grouping: Learn what a grouping is, how to create a grouping, and how to share a grouping with other users in Adobe Workfront. 
• Create a simple report: Create a simple report using an existing filter, view, and grouping in Adobe Workfront. 
• Copy a report: Learn how to quickly create a new report by copying and editing a similar report. 
• Create basic filter activities: In these activities you will create a project filter named "All projects in the Marketing portfolio" and another filter named "Projects I Own Closing This Month," in the Legacy filter experience. 

For a full list of the latest training videos, be sure to check out the “What’s New” section of the Workfront Tutorials page! 

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 Featured events 

Free Virtual Events 

• June 25 at 10:00 a.m. PT – Navigating the Workfront API and Fusion Changes for Multi-Select Fields with Ease  
• June 26 at 9:30 a.m. PT – Summoning Success: Unlocking the Latest in Workfront Planning 
• July 8 at 8:00 a.m. PT – Admin 101: Getting Started with Workfront 
• July 10 at 8:00 a.m. PT – Adobe Workfront Third Quarter Release Webinar 
• July 11 at 9:00 a.m. PT – Admin Chat for Marketing & Creative 

Additional events will be published to Experience League soon! Be sure to check out the Events page to view and register for all upcoming sessions.

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Best practices, at your fingertips 

Did you know there is catalog of ready-to-use project templates, dashboards, and organizational structures right inside of Adobe Workfront? Blueprints provide the basic building blocks, so you don’t have to start from scratch. 
 

Sign up for our System Admin Essentials email series - or share it with new folks on your team - and for the next few months you'll receive Workfront tips and best practices, including how to get the most from Blueprints. 

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“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." 

 

- Maya Angelou