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Allow 'Project: Budgeted Hours' Field or Equivalent to Pull from New Resourcing Planner into Workfront Project View

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Level 2

11/18/20

As part of depreciation of legacy resourcing tool, 'Project: budgeted hours' field no longer displays data for budgeted hours. Pulling this field into a project view displays '0', even if budgeted hours are set up in the new resourcing planner.


This means project managers cannot see their allocated 'bucket of hours' against their planned and actual hours within their Workfront plans, forcing them to look at three different places at once (WF plan + resourcing planner + utilization tool) and therefore adding in unnecessary additional clicks and time. This also prevents us adding a calculated custom field to each project plan which gives an at-a-glance running total of budgeted hours remaining as planned hours are added.


As we begin moving all our resourcing efforts into the platform, this would be an essential element to enable project managers to understand their allocation and plan their hours accordingly.

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Level 3

11/20/20

100% Ditto this comment! We loved the old Budgeted Hours field from the legacy tools, we used it in many reports, project charters, presentations, etc. Would also love this to appear in the Business Case, so a user can see the total budgeted hours in the Business Case area without having to sum up the list of job roles w/ hours.

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11/22/21

Agreed - being able to have a table that shows available - budgeted - planned - actual hours side by side, per user, per timeframe (for us, per month), is a basic requirement for resource allocation and planning. This needs to stay as a functionality piece in order to maintain the usefulness of Workfront in resource planning.