This page describes all project enhancements included with the 2019.1 release. The functionality is currently available in the Preview environment. It will be made available in the Production environment in the .
Functionality described on this page is subject to change prior to availability in the Production environment.
For a list of all changes made in 2019.1, see “2019.1 Release Activity Overview.”
For administrators
For all users
Workfront administrators can now restore templates from the Recycle Bin. As with other deleted items, you can restore a template up to 30 days from the time it was deleted.
For more information, see “Restoring Deleted Items.”
As a Workfront administrator, you can now choose to show or hide timestamps for due dates in the Work List and Calendar using Layout Templates. By default, timestamps are visible for both template and non-template users.
For more information, see “Customizing the Home Area” in the article “Creating and Managing Layout Templates.”
When setting the default task and issue duration type in Setup > Project Preferences, you can use any of the following options:
Simple
Effort Driven
Calculated Assignment
Calculated work
Previously, if you set either Simple or Effort Driven as the default duration type, you could not choose Calculated Assignment and Calculated Work.
For more information on setting task and issue duration type defaults, see “Tasks and Issues Preferences”
The following improvements are now available in the Agile tool:
Kanban
Add tasks and issues to a Kanban board from any task list or report.
Previously, you could add tasks to the Kanban board from the backlog only. You could not add issues.
Filter the Kanban board by individual users on the team.
For more information, see “Using the Kanban Board.”
View and manage issues on the Kanban Backlog.
For more information, see "Using the Kanban Board.
Previously, you could not add or manage issues on a Kanban board.
Scrum
Filter the iteration story board by individual users on the team.
For more information, see “Using the Scrum Agile Story Board.”
Previously, you could not filter by user on the Kanban or scrum boards.
You can now use a task or issue list, a report, or a dashboard to add stories to an iteration. You can also have multiple teams assigned stories in one iteration.
Previously, you could add a story to an iteration only from the task or issues details page, and you could add stories only to iterations created by your team.
For more information, see “Creating and Managing Agile Iterations.”
You can now schedule a report to be delivered in MS Excel (.xlsx) format, in addition to all the other current formats.
Previously, you could deliver a report in only the following formats:
HTML
MS Excel (.xls)
TSV
For information about scheduling reports for delivery, see “Setting Up Report Deliveries.”
[update 18.3 Beta 4 where this was removed from]
The newly redesigned task lists have been re-enabled, after a brief removal during the 18.3 beta 4 release. We have also introduced the following additional features to the task lists which were not part of the original release:
Replacing the right-click menu with a More icon when inline editing one task.
The options that were available in the right-click menu when inline editing several tasks have now been moved to the icons displayed at the top of the task list.
By default, tasks lists display 2000 tasks.
When Workfront recalculates timelines, the question marks adjacent to the tasks whose dates are being updated have been replaced with gray areas.
For information about editing tasks inline, see “Copying and Duplicating Tasks” and “Creating Predecessor Relationships by Chaining Tasks.”
For information about recalculating project timelines, see “Recalculating Timelines for Projects.”
When a list of projects or tasks is larger than the size of your screen, the list now automatically displays in the entire browser window as you scroll. This increases the amount of information you see at one time and allows you to make lists easier to manage.
You can display the following lists in full screen:
A list of projects in the following tabs and subtabs:
Projects I’m On
Projects I Own
All Projects
Projects tab in a Portfolio
Projects tab in a Program
A list of tasks in the following tabs:
Tasks tab in a Project
Subtasks tab in a Task
For information about displaying objects in lists, see “Viewing Items in a List.”
We have enhanced the performance and improved the look and feel of the project and task lists in the following areas:
Portfolio and Programs tabs in the Projects area
Subtasks tab at the task level
Prior to this enhancement, the new lists were available only in the following areas:
Projects tab in the Projects area
Tasks tab at the Project level
For information about displaying objects in lists, see “Viewing Items in a List.”
You can now view information about a project’s tasks in the Project List Gantt Chart within a Program or Portfolio.
Previously, you could view information about tasks only in the Project List Gantt Chart on the Projects tab.
For more information, see “Viewing Information in the Gantt Chart.”
You can now perform the following actions on the tasks in a project when they display in the edit mode of the Gantt chart:
Add tasks
Remove tasks
Inline edit tasks
Duplicate Tasks
Rearrange Tasks
Modify Subtasks
Although you can see how your changes affect the timeline of the project, they do not save immediately. You can save them to permanently update the project timeline, or you can cancel them.
Previously, you could not preview task list changes in the Gantt chart.
For information about editing tasks in the Gantt Chart, see “Updating Information in the Task List Gantt Chart.”
You can now access the Task List Gantt Chart within a project template.
Previously, you could not view the Gantt chart on the task list within a template.
For more information, see “Getting Started with the Gantt Chart.”
You can now print the Gantt chart on A1 and A2 paper sizes.
Previously, you could export only to Letter, Legal, Ledger, A3 (available only for some languages), and A4.
For more information, see “Exporting the Gantt Chart to PDF.”
We renamed the “Project” view option on the Gantt chart to “Fit All.” The view option still works as it did previously. The new name is meant to be more descriptive as to what you view when the option is selected.
For more information, see “Viewing Information in the Gantt Chart.”
You can no longer access the Advanced Assignments dialog box while the Gantt chart is in edit mode. You can make only inline edits while the Task list Gantt Chart is in edit mode.
Previously, you could access the Advanced Assignments dialog box while the Gantt chart was in edit mode, but it saved the changes made in the Gantt chart and closed edit mode.
For more information on editing the Task List Gantt Chart, see “Updating information in the Task List Gantt Chart.”
You can now export audit log entries to a CSV file. You can export up to 50,000 audit log entries to a CSV file at one time.
For more information, see “Managing Audit Logs.”