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amybillmayer
Level 4
May 11, 2022
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What is going on with Workfront???

  • May 11, 2022
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Is it just me or is Workfront extra whack lately? I'm submitting support tickets CONSTANTLY ...

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RandyRoberts
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
May 17, 2022

I can tell you this, I do NOT like where I see Workfront headed. I have lost all confidence in their ability to deliver a reliable product.

ElenaDooley
Level 4
May 18, 2022

I have also had an uptick in reports from users who get a completely white screen with no data loaded, or very slow load times, and it is definitely eroding user confidence. I agree with @Christina Jarosz‚ and just completely echo this sentiment with where Workfront should focus, which I also shared this with our sales rep: I'd much rather see stabilization and dependability than new innovative features with no introduction (like Boards, Blueprints, etc) or changes that aren't helpful to the end user.

Adobe Employee
May 19, 2022

Hey everyone,

We hear you loud and clear! We want to assure you all that we're working through all open support cases and are committed to seeing each of them through to resolution. Please continue to work with our Support teams when you encounter problems in the system so we can work through those problems and get them resolved as quickly as possible.

I worked with our management team and we've gone through all the cases that have been mentioned, as well as some that haven't, and we're happy to confirm that we've either already addressed, or are in the process of addressing the issues mentioned.

I also want to take a moment to remind everyone that we post our known issues here: https://one.workfront.com/s/article/Known-Issues

Thank you all for participating in our community.. you folks are a shining example of what it means to *be* a community!

-Dustin Martin

Adobe Workfront Assigned Support Engineer

Kelly_Wehrmann
Level 9
May 19, 2022

Ditto, thanks Dustin..... it helps to know you are on the inside! :) Hope you are doing well!

Christina_Jarosz
Level 9
May 19, 2022

Adding in my bugs to the list:

  • Search feature rarely works correctly ‚Äì created a specific report for that purpose
  • Slowness with data loading (slow compared to comparable testing in classic at the same time). Forms are especially slow (there is a 500 field max and we are just over a 100.... I'd hate to see if we had closer to 500 on a form).
  • Screens don't automatically load or update. I find myself having to constantly refresh my browser window to get contents to update. I didn't have to do this in classic.
  • On occasion, I just get a completely white screen with no data loaded. I have to hit refresh to make something pop up.
  • Text mode in reporting no longer functions ‚Äì defined widths are now being ignored, leading to the decreased use of reports.
  • Features intended only for system admins ‚Äì like Blueprints availability ‚Äì are showing as an option for our read and review only license users causing confusion.
  • Overall system degradation - we have instructed our users to stop using Google Chrome (the default) and start using MS Edge because quite frankly WF doesn't play well in Chrome anymore.
  • Last line of every project is being cut off so you cannot read it.
  • Oh and not as related - I still cannot search the community because of these loading errors anytime I access the site.
Level 10
May 19, 2022

Interesting…I thought Chrome was the preferred browser and WF themselves said not to use Edge and…your advice is the reverse.

We're majority on Mac so Edge isn't an option. If Chrome isn't working on Mac, I usually advise Safari because it's default timeouts for slow scripts and other behind-the-scenes operations are longer.

I'd like to hear more about this.

Christina_Jarosz
Level 9
May 26, 2022

Hi @Kevin Quosig‚ - sorry, I'm just seeing this. Some of the things we've experienced with Chrome are 'less' than with Edge. Overall Edge is more stable now. Examples:

  1. Adjusting predecessors - when hit enter and nothing happens.
  2. Trying to navigate through a project - it's a huge increase in speed (Edge is still slower than it should be but at least it doesn't hang as bad)
  3. Random errors of "Oops something went wrong - contact Workfront so we can fix it"
  4. Overall load time of the site - Edge moves faster than Chrome.
  5. Random drop down boxes not loading next field after selected.
  6. Screen sharing - we cannot share WF over a teams call or zoom call sufficiently with Chrome - it's pretty non existent in response. We can with Edge thankfully.
May 20, 2022

Half of our Global team has freeze on Workfront in Chrome environment today - blank screens for our team. I have just raised a critical ticket with Workfront. Agree with all points above very buggy at the moment especially working with Resourcing very slow to load - waiting minutes for load on these filters.

RandyRoberts
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
May 20, 2022

Today is just the icing on the Workfront blunder cake. Everything is down for everyone.

May 22, 2022

Yup, irritating and annoying. Have asked my AE and ASE what is going on and only get vague 'migration' issues... (to another server)

RandyRoberts
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
May 23, 2022

I have 7 tickets open. 5 for over 2 weeks and 2 more today with a few more that I don't have time to document. This getting pretty stupid.

Adobe Employee
May 26, 2022

Hey All!

Thank you so much for participating in the community. I'm Ben Robbins, one of the Product Leads with Workfront and wanted to recognize that we've heard your feedback. We are always grateful to hear from our customers and their experiences with the Adobe Workfront .

With the transition to the New Workfront Experience we have moved carefully to ensure the optimal experience for our customers. To create a future ready and quality experience, some tough choices had to be made and not every functionality was migrated nor will every feature work at complete parity with classic. These decisions are generating favorable results.

From a performance perspective we’ve seen improvement in the overall operation of the New Workfront experience. One highlight to call out would be a 32% year over year performance increase in the top 25 most visited pages by our customers. We're coupling those improvements by monitoring customer reported experience around tasks and lists.

We welcome opportunities to discuss your experience in further depth so please reach out to your customer success manager or support for further dialogue.

RandyRoberts
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
May 26, 2022

With all due respect @Benjamin Robbins - inactive‚ , that doesn't help. I believe you're addressing the wrong issue in this particular thread.

If by "tough choices" you mean making filters work intermittently, disallowing the deletion of old deprecated forms, showing filters in menus that were deleted long ago, showing partial screen redraws with large blank spaces, constant white screens, I think you get the picture, then I think you should re-think those choices. And if those were conscious choices, that will make your customers even more angry.

Reaching out to support has done zero for performance, and has become a bit insulting to be told over and again "look how much faster we're making it, you should pat us on the back and be grateful".

And as for your "performance increases", you can't slow it down by 70% and then speed it up 10% and call that a performance increase, we're not stupid.

This thread is about a plethora of Workfront glitches, bugs, and white screens that have increased ten-fold in the past 2 or 3 weeks that undermine trust in Workfront's ability to deliver a reliable, working product.

Workfront is not cheap and I think we all deserve more than your above "prepared statement" that really says nothing.

April 7, 2023

This and only this!!!   "And as for your "performance increases", you can't slow it down by 70% and then speed it up 10% and call that a performance increase, we're not **bleep**."  The click lag on every single operation is simply unacceptable.  Even something as simple as assigning a task and the assignment suggestion populating so unintelligently and slowing and shifting the UI in such a manner that it requires the user to physically pause to avoid misfire selection clicks resulting in repeat operations is absurd.

RandyRoberts
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
May 26, 2022

Here's an example: note the dates.