How Do I Learn Fusion without Access to Fusion?

[dcshanno]

Hi, I'm a certified Workfront administrator, working as an indepdendent contractor. My current contract is coming to an end and am looking for the next opportunity.

I've been able to avoid using Fusion up to this point because it's either not been a requirement of the job or there's been someone else on the team to do it.

It's become obvious that knowing Fusion is pretty much a requirement at this point as most of the work out there is asking for a Workfront-Fusion admin hybrid. But there's the rub: I'm stuck because I don't have access to Fusion.

My question is: Can anyone advise how I can learn Fusion basics and get practical experience with it without having access to Fusion?

[lgaertner]

Hello DShann,

As far as I know, unfortunately there is no possibility to get a test environment of Fusion.

Due to the fact that Fusion is based on make.com, I would suggest to open a free account there and get familiarise yourself with the general architecture.

You will not find any Workfront specific modules in there, but you could do everything using the HTTP app.

The more important part, to my mind is to learn the Workfront API using this and the API-Explorer.

Put simply, Fusion / make are just tools, which provide an UI to almost any API and let you create workflows between those.

Regards

Lars

[dcshanno]

Thank you, Lars. I really appreciate you taking the time to share this with me.

[Ross_Barton]

I used this resource in Experience League to get started. There is a lot of content, including videos, you can review even if you don't have Fusion access. 

[dcshanno]

Thank you, Ross! I'll definitely review the training overivew materials you linked to. Appreciate your time.

[shane_mckinney]

The tutorials provided by Adobe will get you going with a sandbox. You will find resources a bit limited. Initially, I tried youtube.com and also came up short.

Alternatively go to make.com, and leverage their free account option, its the identical interface. However, Adobe has started to reface their UI. Adobe Workfront Fusion is based on the legacy code acquired from MAKE. The key difference is that Adobe offers less connectors, but is stated to be more centric to Adobe products. What you will learn in one, easily ports to the other (Fusion to Make, and Make to Fusion). Additionally, the community at make.com is more active. Make also offers tutorials and can be found on youtube.com. I learned this the hard way, but since learning of make.com my output in Adobe Workfront Fusion has increased 10x. 

With all that said to be successful in Adobe Workfront Fusion learn APIs, when it comes to integrating Adobe solutions, the connectors have proven to be problematic, whereas with the API version of the Adobe product you will achieve success. Its a more difficult climb, but it leverages the HTTP connector, and considering cost is based on connector count, this can help keep that number low as well.

Best.

[dcshanno]

Really appreciate the information, Shane. Thanks to you and others who have steered me toward API; it's not easy to know how or where to start when you don’t have much familiarity with any of it.
If you'd be willing to answer another question: My ultimate goal is Fusion certification. In your opinion, do you think it’s possible to review the API/Fusion materials, familiarize myself with Make, attend the on-demand Fusion class and be able to take and pass the Fusion certification exam without ever actually touching Fusion? Given that I don't have a tech or developer background, is that realistic?