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WorkfrontWhiff
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February 27, 2025
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Looking to add custom form date field as a column in a document report

  • February 27, 2025
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I am looking to add a custom date field as a column in a document report. After looking for solutions in Experience League I found that this worked for someone, but not for me (I have adjusted it to be relevant to me):

 

displayname=T Date
valueexpression={document}.{project}.{DE:T Date}
valueformat=HTML

Where am I going wrong as the column is blank?

 

Thank you

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Richard_Le_Community Advisor
Community Advisor
February 27, 2025

Hi,

 

Assuming that the date field is being captured on a project custom form (as your text mode suggests), you shouldn't need to use text mode at all. The Project object and it's data attributes are all available natively from a Document report. In the report builder, simply add a column and search for the "T Date" field, it should appear under the project attributes:

 

Best Regards,

Rich.

 

 

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    WorkfrontWhiffAuthor
    Level 3
    February 27, 2025

    Thanks Rich - I was wrong, it is a proof approval report ...

     

    Why has Workfront removed what type of report it is out of Filters? How can we now find out?

    Sven-iX
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    Sven-iXCommunity Advisor
    Community Advisor
    February 28, 2025

    Hi @workfrontwhiff 
    The short answer is: You can't. 

    Proof Approval reports don't support objects that are, ostensibly, linked to the document object. 

    For example you can include "projectID" - but creating a column for "project:name" will give you blanks. 

     

    Maybe this will work for your use case: 

    1. Create a DOCUMENT report
    2. Filter currentVersion:proofDecision = notblank

    On DOCU reports you can access objects that are referenced from the document, e.g. project etc. So you can pull in custom fields on a project. 

     

     

     

      kautuk_sahni
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      kautuk_sahniCommunity Manager
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      July 16, 2025

      @workfrontwhiff Just checking in — were you able to resolve your issue?
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