Hi Julie, Glad to tackle this for you. 1) Workfront really doesn't have best practices around general timelines because they vary so much from company to company. We established project templates for each of the workflows we have (ie., brochure, banner ad, social post, mailings, etc.). They included a typical timeline in days which were starting points for the project but could be adjusted. Our planners know that anything needed quicker than the template shows will need some extra effort. 2) We struggled with this issue for over a year before we contracted to a 3rd party, AtAppStore, to build a project numbering API for us. Workfront just doesn't have that functionality built in. Doug Den Hoed, who is active on this community created that for us and I am sure he could help you also. I hope this helps! Mark Hahn SEI Investments Company