Now when accessing the Notifications area, you are prompted to enable or disable push notifications that are sent from the Workfront app. 

Prior to this change, push notifications were enabled by default and you had to navigate to the app settings to disable them.

For more information, see "Workfront Mobile App."

(Updated applications available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store)

Now you can designate Resource Managers for multiple projects simultaneously.

Prior to this change, you could designate Resource Managers only for a single project at a time.

For more information, see "Designating Resource Managers for a Project or Template."

For a video demonstration, see "Add Resource Managers to Multiple Projects Simultaneously (Video)."

PrS: Sept 21

EA: N/A

GA: Sept 28

Email notification messages you receive informing you about certain activity from Workfront are in the process of being updated.

The following email notification messages were updated this release (for more information about each of these options, see "Notification Descriptions" in "Configuring Email Notifications"):

• You are set as the sponsor of a project
• Documents are uploaded or changed on requests you are assigned to
• A document is changed or uploaded on an issue for which you are the primary contact 
• A document is added to a project you sponsor
• A document is added to a project you own
• A document is added to a project you are on

The notification email has been updated with a new look and feel and now includes the following additional information:

• Object name where the document was uploaded
• Name of the user who uploaded the document
• Document name, size, version, and extension
• Thumbnail of document
• Link to download the document
• Reference number
• Project name
• Assignee
• Linked portfolio name
• Planned Completion Date
• Issue name
• Primary contact
• Name of user who made the request
• Entry date
• Issue priority
• Issue status
• Issue type
• Issue description
• Attachments (with thumbnail preview)
• Assignment

The following email notification messages were updated in previous releases:

• You are set as the Project Owner of a project
• A project you sponsor gets behind
• A project you own gets behind
• A task on a project you own gets behind
• A task on a project you sponsor gets behind

For more information about receiving email notifications, see "Receiving Email Notifications" in "Configuring Email Notifications." 

PrS: Sept 21

EA: N/A

GA: Sept 28

NOTE This functionality is available only when leveraging API 6, which is currently in beta. 

You can now use API 6 to manage user assignments across one or more projects. 

Prior to this change, the only way to manage user assignments across one or more projects was using the resourcing Swap tool, as described in "Managing User Assignments." (And only users who had been designated as Resource Managers on a given project could manage user assignments for that project.) You can now leverage this same functionality via the API.

The following capabilities are now available in API 6:

• Assign users to projects
• Swap one user assignment for another
• Unassign users from projects

For a video demonstration, see "API Enhancement: Manage User Assignments across Multiple Projects (Video)."

For more information about API 6, see "What's New in API Version 6."

PrS: Sept 21

EA: N/A

GA: Sept 28

The ability to check-in and check-out documents is being removed from the Workfront application.

NOTE Any documents that are checked out at the time the feature is deprecated will be checked back in.

If you were using the Check-In, Check-Out functionality previously available in Workfront, consider the following alternatives:

• Modify access permissions on the document to restrict access to View access. Users who have only View access can view the document and download it, but they cannot upload a new version (and therefore cannot make any changes).
  For information about how to modify access permissions on a document, see "Sharing Permissions on Objects."
• If you are linking documents from a third-party application (as described in "Linking Documents between Workfront and a Third-Party Application"), you can leverage similar functionality provided by the third-party document provider. Third-party document providers that integrate with Workfront often provide the same or similar capabilities natively within their applications, allowing you to control who has access to documents and for how long. These configuration options are maintained in Workfront when configured within the third-party application.

PrS: Sept 21

EA: N/A

GA: Sept 28

Now when viewing a report, you can display the prompt selections that were chosen at the time the report was run.

Prior to this change, you could display only the filters that were chosen at the time the report was run. 

For more information, see "Running Reports."

PrS: Sept 21

EA: N/A

GA: Sept 28

When you select a date field (such as Actual Completion Date, Last Update Date, Estimated Start Date, and so forth) either when filling out a prompt prior to running a report, or when adding a filter to a report, the following additional options are now available:

• This Year: The current year (from Jan 1) to the current date
• Past Year: The past 12 months from the current date
• Last Year: The previous calendar year, from Jan 1 to Dec 31

Other options that were previously available include: This Week, This Month, Past Week, Past Month, Last Week, Last Month, and so forth.

For information about how to run a report with a prompt, see "Running Reports."

PrS: Sept 21

EA: N/A

GA: Sept 28

Now when you are configuring report deliveries, you can specify whether to include links in Excel documents. When a document includes more than 65,530 links, the document cannot be opened.

Prior to this change, links were always included in report deliveries for Excel documents. 

For more information, see "Setting Up Report Deliveries."

PrS: Sept 21

EA: N/A

GA: Sept 28

The Views section has been removed from the Team Settings dialog box. The Layout Template field has been moved to the Basic Info section of the Team Settings dialog box. 

The Working On and Requests fields have been removed from the application because they are no longer applicable. (For the past several months, "Layout Template" has been the only option available in these fields. For more information, see "My Work and Team Views Are Changing.")

For information about how to select a layout template, see "Configuring the Layout Template for a Team" in "Configuring Layout Templates for My Work and Teams."

Also update "Creating and Managing Layout Templates"

"Linking Documents between Workfront and a Third-Party Application." (This has to do with the change to how the third-party document service appears in Workfront story, which I'm not documenting here because it's an issue fix. Need to update this article, though.)

For a video demonstration, see "Views Section No Longer in the Team Settings (Video)."

PrS: Sept 21

EA: N/A

GA: Sept 28

Now when you delete a single user in Workfront, the deletion process runs in the foreground. You can continue to use the Workfront application only after the deletion process is complete. (When deleting multiple users simultaneously, the deletion process runs in the background; this functionality has not been changed.)

Prior to this change, the deletion process would run in the background even when deleting a single user. 

For more information, see "Deleting Users."

For a video demonstration, see "Deletion Process Runs in the Foreground When Deleting a Single User (Video)."

PrS: Sept 21

EA: N/A

GA: Sept 28

Now creating an approval process is more straightforward, as follows:

• Multiple approval processes can be associated with a single object.
  Prior to this change, only a single approval processes could be associated with an object.
• Approval paths have been replaced with multiple approval processes.
  Rather than creating one, complex approval process with multiple approval paths, you now create multiple approval processes and associate them with the same object.
  If you have approval processes with multiple paths, the single process will be divided into multiple processes.
• You can now have multiple types of approvers per stage.

For information about how to create an approval process, see "Creating Approval Processes."

For information about associating an approval process you created with work, see "Associating a New or Existing Approval Process with Work."

For a video demonstration, see "Updated Project, Task, and Issue Approvals (Video)."

PrS: Sept 28

EA: N/A

GA: Oct 26

Now you can see all tasks on projects for which you are the Resource Manager, enabling you to be more informed when making scheduling decisions.

For general information about the tools available for scheduling resources, see "Viewing Resource Assignments."

To adjust the information that is displayed on the scheduling timeline, create a filter, as described in "Filtering Content When Scheduling Resources."

In addition to viewing tasks on the projects you are responsible for, you can use the scheduling timeline to make changes to resourcing assignments. For information about how to manage user assignments on the scheduling timeline, see "Managing User Assignments."

For a video demonstration, see "View and Manage Resourcing Assignments on the Scheduling Timeline (Video)."

PrS: Sept 21

EA: Sept 28

GA: TBD

Now you can manually synchronize data in an agile project or iteration to ensure that data in the burndown chart is accurate.

For more information, see "Manually Synchronizing Data in the Burndown Chart" in "Using the Agile Burndown Chart."

For a video demonstration, see "Manually Synchronize Data in the Agile Burndown Chart (Video)."

PrS: Sept 21

EA: Sept 28

GA: Oct 26

Whether project-specific hour types are available for users depends on settings made at the system, project, and user levels.

Previously, any selections made at the user level were not honored, and did not affect whether project-specific hour types were displayed. 

Hour Types are now shown on a project timesheet only when each hour type is:

• Selected on the project
• Selected on the user's profile
  
  

Prior to this change, project-specific hour types were shown regardless of what was selected at the user level.

For more information, see "Defining Which Hour Types Are Available" in "Recording Time."

For a video demonstration, see "Project-Specific Hour Types Now Honor Settings at the user Level (Video)."

PrS: Sept 21

EA: Sept 28

GA: Oct 26

You can use Workfront from Outlook for Office 365, as described in the following sections:

• "Setting Up the Workfront Add-In with Outlook 365"
• "Adding an Email As a Task in Your My Work Area with Outlook 365"
• "Updating an Existing Item from an Email with Outlook 365"
• "Replying to a Comment in Outlook 365"

 Beta: End of September

Public Availability: TBD

System administrators can now enable Group Owners to manage custom statuses for their groups.

The following improvements were made regarding custom statuses:

For System Administrators:

• Create custom statuses and make them available to specific groups. (Group Owners can then customize the status to fit the needs of their group.)
  Prior to this change, statuses could be created and applied only globally.
• UI improvements when creating and customizing statuses.
  
  

For more information, see "Creating and Customizing Statuses for the Workfront Site." 

For Users (Group Owners):

• Create unique custom statuses for the groups they own.
  Prior to this change, only a system administrator could create custom statuses.
• Customize statuses the system administrator has made available. (The system administrator must configure the status to be customized.)
• UI improvements when creating and customizing statuses.

For more information, see "Creating and Customizing Group Statuses." [! existing article is called "Creating and Customizing Statuses"]

Update the following articles at GA:

-Project Statuses

-Task Statuses

-Creating and Managing Agile Teams

-Managing Groups (end-user - Section)

-Creating and Customizing Group Statuses (end-user)

-Managing Group Membership and Subgroups (end-user)

-Creating and Managing Groups (admin)

PrS: May 14

EA: N/A

GA: Sept 28

Now when you click a notification either from the notification bubble in the Global Navigation Bar or from an email notification, you are taken directly to that message in the update stream on the object.

Prior to this change, you were taken to the appropriate object (task or issue), but you had to manually scroll to the specific notification in the update stream.

For more information about viewing notifications, see "Using In-App Notifications."

PrS: Aug 17

EA: Aug 24

GA: Sept 28

Now when you change the hour type for a timesheet entry, the GUID remains the same. This makes reporting on timesheet entries consistent.

Prior to this change, any time you changed the hour type on an hour entry, the GUID for that entry would be changed.

PrS: Aug 24

EA: N/A

GA: Sept 28

You can change the order of columns in any list by dragging a column from one location and dropping it in another.

This is especially useful when viewing the Gantt chart and the list view simultaneously and the column that you want to view is not displayed on the left side of the page. 

For more information, see "Modifying Column Width and Order."

EA: Feb 20

GA: TBD

You can now control who has access to a custom form by granting access to individual users, teams, roles, groups, or companies.

Prior to this change, you could grant access only to groups.

For more information, see "Creating Custom Forms."

PrS: Jan 23

EA: N/A

GA: TBD

See Document Updates

The Workfront Extension for Adobe Creative Cloud is designed to allow you to save and export assets you create in the Creative Cloud to Workfront, thereby speeding up the approval and review process.

For more information, see "Workfront Extension for Adobe Creative Cloud."

Add-On available for download: April

GA: TBD