The changes described in this section are being made Generally Available (GA), or are releasing to the Early Access (EA) or Preview Sandbox (PrS) environments. (Changes might also include functionality that is currently available in the PrS or EA environments and is scheduled to release to GA sometime in the future.)
- Custom Status Group Enhancements
- Add Resource Managers to Multiple Projects Simultaneously
- Notifications Link Directly to the Message in the Update Stream
- Updated Email Notifications
- Hour Entries on the Timesheet Have a Consistent GUID
- Display Prompt Selections after the Report Is Run
- Display Additional Values When Selecting a Date Field in a Prompt or Filter
- Specify Whether to Include Links in Exported Excel Documents
- API Enhancement: Manage User Assignments across Multiple Projects
- Views Section No Longer in the Team Settings
- Deletion Process Runs in the Foreground When Deleting a Single User
- Mobile Improvements (Available in the app stores)
- Feature Deprecation: Check-In, Check-Out of Documents
- Control Access to Custom Forms
- Integration with Adobe Creative Cloud
- Reorder Columns in Any List with Drag-and-Drop
Maintenance Updates
For a comprehensive list of recent maintenance updates made to the Workfront system, see "Maintenance Updates."
Feature / Change | Explanation | Availability |
New This Month (Prioritized by GA Release Date) | ||
Mobile Improvements |
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) |
Add Resource Managers to Multiple Projects Simultaneously |
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 |
Updated Email Notifications |
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"):
The notification email has been updated with a new look and feel and now includes the following additional information:
The following email notification messages were updated in previous releases:
For more information about receiving email notifications, see "Receiving Email Notifications" in "Configuring Email Notifications." |
PrS: Sept 21
EA: N/A
GA: Sept 28 |
API Enhancement: Manage User Assignments across Multiple Projects |
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:
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."
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PrS: Sept 21
EA: N/A
GA: Sept 28 |
Feature Deprecation: Check-In, Check-Out of Documents |
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:
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PrS: Sept 21
EA: N/A
GA: Sept 28 |
Display Prompt Selections after the Report Is Run |
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 |
Display Additional Values When Selecting a Date Field in a Prompt or Filter |
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:
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 |
Specify Whether to Include Links in Excel Documents |
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 |
Views Section No Longer in the Team Settings |
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 |
Deletion Process Runs in the Foreground When Deleting a Single User |
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 |
Updated Project, Task, and Issue Approvals |
Now creating an approval process is more straightforward, as follows:
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 |
View and Manage Resourcing Assignments on the Scheduling Timeline |
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 |
Manually Synchronize Data in the Agile Burndown Chart |
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 |
Project-Specific Hour Types Now Honor Settings Made at the User Level |
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:
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 |
Outlook 365 Beta |
You can use Workfront from Outlook for Office 365, as described in the following sections:
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Beta: End of September
Public Availability: TBD |
Currently in EA or Preview (Prioritized by GA Release Date) | ||
Custom Status Group Enhancements |
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:
For more information, see "Creating and Customizing Statuses for the Workfront Site."
For Users (Group Owners):
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 |
Notifications Link Directly to the Message in the Update Stream |
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 |
Hour Entries on the Timesheet Have a Consistent GUID |
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 |
Reorder Columns in Any List with Drag-and-Drop |
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 |
Control Access to Custom Forms [! i6?] |
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
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Integration with Adobe Creative Cloud |
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 |
September 2016 Product Release Webinar
The September 2016 Release Webinar was presented by the Workfront Release Readiness team on September 21, 2016. This webinar is designed to help you better understand and fully benefit from the new features releasing in September 2016.
The webinar recording is available here:
Demo Videos
- "Updated Project, Task, and Issue Approvals (Video)"
- "View and Manage Resourcing Assignments on the Scheduling Timeline (Video)"
- "Add Resource Managers to Multiple Projects Simultaneously (Video)"
- "Project-Specific Hour Types Now Honor Settings at the user Level (Video)"
- "API Enhancement: Manage User Assignments across Multiple Projects (Video)"
- "Views Section No Longer in the Team Settings (Video)"
- "Deletion Process Runs in the Foreground When Deleting a Single User (Video)"
- "Manually Synchronize Data in the Agile Burndown Chart (Video)"
- "Control Access to Custom Forms"
Updated Project, Task, and Issue Approvals (Video)
View and Manage Resourcing Assignments on the Scheduling Timeline (Video)
Add Resource Managers to Multiple Projects Simultaneously (Video)
Project-Specific Hour Types Now Honor Settings at the User Level (Video)
API Enhancement: Manage User Assignments across Multiple Projects (Video)
Views Section No Longer in the Team Settings (Video)
Deletion Process Runs in the Foreground When Deleting a Single User (Video)
Manually Synchronize Data in the Agile Burndown Chart (Video)
Control Access to Custom Forms
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