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Level 2
February 15, 2018
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New My Home - hide the 'New Task' button

  • February 15, 2018
  • 12 replies
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I want the ability to hide the 'new task' button. We do not want tasks added that are not part of a project.

12 replies

Level 2
February 15, 2018

Agree, this is something we have been asking to be added for quite some time!!

Level 5
February 15, 2018

Same here. We do not want this either.

Level 2
February 16, 2018

I agree, the New Task button is not useful and we discourage users from creating personal tasks in Workfront. Thanks for submitting Maria.

Level 8
February 19, 2018

Agreed! This is causing a huge problem for us now that we've rolled-out timesheeting.

Level 3
February 21, 2018

We like our users to have the ability to add personal tasks so I agree that making it an option to hide the button is a good idea.

Level 5
February 21, 2018

It should simply be a layout option for the admin where they control whether the New Task button appears or not. All organizations run differently. It may come down to even wanting some users to have this in your organization and others not to have it. If it could be controlled by the layout, that would be great.

Level 4
March 2, 2018

Agree this would be beneficial to have tied to access levels/roles/or layout templates as an option to turn on and off.

Level 4
March 15, 2018

I too like our users to have the ability to add personal tasks so I agree that making it an option to hide the button is a good idea

Level 2
March 25, 2019

I like the add new task feature but restrict it by being required to link it to a project.

Personal tasks does not allocate anytime, also without a special report you cannot see the list of unique work that user is being asked to do.

Our department set up misc. task projects for each user where they can add the misc. tasks, others can to, that are not associated to a project, but people are still adding personal tasks not linked to anything and this is just messy.

In addition to the hiding functionality it would be great to be able to set only create new tasks on projects.

Level 5
January 21, 2020

Rather than hide, please give admins the ability to kill this feature system wide. It is beyond me why a feature would be FORCED in the system that makes work items that can collect logged hours that get excluded form hours reporting by default. We loose so much project time to these tasks, that should be attributed to specific project efforts, even given the amount of email blasts and training we try to do.


Furthermore, we are at risk of under reporting time on development projects that we get tax credit for... thus costing us $$.


Please give us the option to disable this feature!