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NicholeVargas
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
November 19, 2024

[Event Follow-Up] 10 More Text Mode Tips in Adobe Workfront

  • November 19, 2024
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Thank you to everyone who joined, asked questions, and shared additional pointers in today's workshop, 10 [More] Text Mode Tips in Adobe Workfront! ​This session was a continuation of the original, 10 Text Mode Tips workshop done in April, so if you're looking for additional examples, check out that post. 

If you missed today's session, no worries, below are links to the recording and slide deck:

Examples shared during the workshop include:

  • Collections in a Filter
  • Custom Prompts
  • Show all Templates and Custom Forms
  • Detailed User View
  • Custom Job #s (calculated custom fields)
  • and more! 

If you are just getting started with text mode, I'd recommend bookmarking and familiarizing yourself with the API Explorer (this will be your single source of truth for text mode) and reviewing customer submitted examples in the Reporting Cookbook. In addition, the Customer Support team can help with your text mode questions, but be sure to come prepared with your report already built - give it your best effort! 

If you have additional text mode tips to share, please reply to this post and we can use this discussion as a living text mode tip library for everyone to access! 

Thanks again and we hope to see you at more Customer Success workshops later this year. Be sure to check out the Events page on Experience League for the full list and to register.

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NicholeVargas
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
November 19, 2024

Here is the text mode you can use for Tip #8: Detailed User View. Remember to remove all but the first 2 columns of your user report and add this in the third column:

column.2.displayname=User Information column.2.sharecol=true column.2.textmode=true column.2.value=<font color=000000 face=Agenda><b>Title:&nbsp</b></font> column.2.valueformat=HTML column.2.width=400 column.3.displayname= column.3.linkedname=direct column.3.namekey=title column.3.querysort=title column.3.sharecol=true column.3.textmode=true column.3.valuefield=title column.3.valueformat=HTML column.4.sharecol=true column.4.textmode=true column.4.value=<br><font color=000000 face=Agenda><b>Manager:&nbsp</b></font> column.4.valueformat=HTML column.5.displayname=Manager column.5.linkedname=manager column.5.namekey=view.relatedcolumn column.5.namekeyargkey.0=manager column.5.namekeyargkey.1=name column.5.querysort=manager:name column.5.sharecol=true column.5.textmode=true column.5.valuefield=manager:name column.5.valueformat=HTML column.6.sharecol=true column.6.textmode=true column.6.value=<br><font color=000000 face=Agenda><b>Primary Job Role:&nbsp</b></font> column.6.valueformat=HTML column.7.displayname= column.7.namekey=view.relatedcolumn column.7.namekeyargkey.0=role column.7.namekeyargkey.1=name column.7.querysort=role:name column.7.sharecol=true column.7.textmode=true column.7.valuefield=role:name column.7.valueformat=HTML column.8.sharecol=true column.8.textmode=true column.8.value=<hr><font color=000000 face=Agenda><b>Access Level:&nbsp</b></font> column.8.valueformat=HTML column.9.displayname= column.9.namekey=view.relatedcolumn column.9.namekeyargkey.0=accessLevel column.9.namekeyargkey.1=name column.9.querysort=accessLevel:name column.9.sharecol=true column.9.textmode=true column.9.tile.name=component.accesslevellistview column.9.valuefield=accessLevel:name column.9.valueformat=HTML column.10.sharecol=true column.10.textmode=true column.10.value=<br><font color=000000 face=Agenda><b>Home Group:&nbsp</b></font> column.10.valueformat=HTML column.11.displayname=Home Group column.11.linkedname=homeGroupID column.11.namekey=view.relatedcolumn column.11.namekeyargkey.0=homeGroup column.11.namekeyargkey.1=name column.11.querysort=homeGroup:name column.11.sharecol=true column.11.textmode=true column.11.valuefield=homeGroup:name column.11.valueformat=HTML column.12.sharecol=true column.12.textmode=true column.12.value=<br><font color=000000 face=Agenda><b>Home Team:&nbsp</b></font> column.12.valueformat=HTML column.13.displayname= column.13.linkedname=homeTeam column.13.namekey=view.relatedcolumn column.13.namekeyargkey.0=homeTeam column.13.namekeyargkey.1=name column.13.querysort=homeTeam:name column.13.textmode=true column.13.valuefield=homeTeam:name column.13.valueformat=HTML

 

NicholeVargas
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
November 19, 2024

Shoutout to @moniqueevans for sharing this text mode in the chat! It can be used on a task, issue, or project report to show the latest update, who provided it, and when. It only shows the first 139 characters and then "open for more" if there is more to be read. 

 

displayname=Latest Update namekey=latest update textmode=true valueexpression=IF(LEN({lastNote}.{noteText})>140, CONCAT(SUBSTR({lastNote}.{noteText},0,139),"...(open for more) -- ",{lastNote}.{owner}.{name}," on ", {lastNote}.{entryDate}), IF(LEN({lastNote}.{noteText})>0, CONCAT({lastNote}.{noteText}," -- ",{lastNote}.{owner}.{name}," on ", {lastNote}.{entryDate}))) valueformat=HTML

 

 

NicholeVargas
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
November 19, 2024

A similar version to shorten your description field to 139 characters: 

 

textmode=true valueexpression=IF(LEN({description})>140, CONCAT(SUBSTR({description},0,139),"...(open for more) -- "), IF(LEN({description})>0, {description})) valueformat=HTML

 

 

Community Advisor
November 19, 2024

In under a day, I had someone bring me an odd filter challenge that #1 was the perfect solution for, and until this class I had never tried filtering by a collection. Thanks for a great session!