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April 25, 2025
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Workfront Planning Formula Field

  • April 25, 2025
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I am working on a formula field in Workfront Planning. I have a connected field for {Deliverable Type} that houses a list of deliverables in a separate record type in Planning. When a certain {Deliverable Type} is selected from the available list and a Qty is input in another column I want the formula field to tell me the resource hours needed to complete that amount of deliverables.

 

The formula I'm using is:

IF({Deliverable Type}="Video"CONCAT("Video Producer: ", {Qty} * 15, " hrs; Video Editor: ", {Qty} * 10, " hrs"), "")
 
Workfront Planning is recognizing this as a valid formula but it's not returning anything after I click save. What does work is if I were to switch {Deliverable Type} to a free text field and type in Video.
 
Any thoughts on how to solution for this? Does Workfront Planning even support this sort of formula?

2 replies

Adobe Employee
May 8, 2025

Hi @zakco

 

Thank you for your question! You mentioned that "When a certain {Deliverable Type} is selected from the available list"; I am wondering is the original "Deliverable Type" a multi-select field? 

 

If so, those are not supported in formulas. You can view this information in our documentation HERE. If not, I would recommend submitting a ticket to the Workfront Support team so that we can look into this further with you. 

 

- Monica 

kautuk_sahni
Community Manager
Community Manager
August 29, 2025

@zakco Just checking in. Were you able to resolve your issue? We’d love to hear how things worked out. If the suggestions above helped, marking a response as correct can guide others with similar questions. And if you found another solution, feel free to share it — your insights could benefit the community. Thanks again for being part of the conversation!

Kautuk Sahni