Create or edit views in Adobe Workfront

You can customize the type of information you display on the screen using views. You can use several types of views in Adobe Workfront.

This article describes how to create and edit standard views for lists and reports.

For more information, see Views overview in Adobe Workfront.

Access requirements

Expand to view access requirements for the functionality in this article.
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Adobe Workfront package Any
Adobe Workfront license

Contributor or higher

Request or higher

Access level configurations

Edit access to Filters, Views, Groupings

Edit access to Reports, Dashboards, Calendars to create a view in a report

Object permissions

Manage permissions to a report to create or edit a view in a report

Manage permissions to a view to edit it

For more detail about the information in this table, see Access requirements in Workfront documentation.

Create or customize a view

The process for creating or customizing a view differs depending on whether you are creating or customizing a standard view or a Board view.

Create or customize a standard view create-or-customize-a-standard-view

You can create a new standard view, or you can customize an existing standard view that you previously created.

  1. Click the View drop-down menu on any list where you want to create or customize a view.

  2. Click the + New View button to create a new view.
    Or
    Click the Edit icon Edit icon that appears on mouseover to the right of an existing view you want to edit.
    The Customize View dialog box displays.

  3. In the Column Preview section, do any of the following:

    • Modify the value of any column by clicking the column title and then selecting a new field.

    • Add a column by clicking Add Column, begin typing the name of the column that you want to add, then click it when it appears in the drop-down list.

    • Adjust the order that columns appear by dragging the column title to a new location.

    • In the Column Settings area, click Summarize this column by, and choose how you want the data to display in the column. This option is available for the following column types:

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      Date fields
      • Maximum
      • Minimum
      Currency fields
      • Count
      • Sum
      • Average
      • Maximum
      • Minimum
      String and boolean fields
      • Count

      Note: Workfront does not generally recommend summarizing a boolean field by count because the value will always be true/false.

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      The following exceptions apply for parent objects (for example, parent tasks) when you are summarizing values for the following fields in groupings:
      • All the number and currency fields except Actual Hours (for example, Planned/ Actual Labor Cost, Planned/ Actual Expense Cost, Planned/ Actual Cost, Planned Hours) summarize the values for only children tasks and standalone tasks. They do not summarize the values for the parent tasks or parents of parents.
      • Actual Hours summarizes the values for the main parent and the standalone tasks; they do not summarize the numbers for the parents of parent tasks or the children tasks.
      • Custom data fields for number and currency values summarize all tasks: parents, children, parents of parents, and standalone tasks.
      For more information about using groupings in a report, see the article Groupings overview in Adobe Workfront.
      • (Optional) Click Advanced Options to specify the following information for the column:

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        Custom Column Label Specify a custom label for the column. This label replaces the default label. We recommend using only UTF-8 characters to avoid compatibility issues.
        Field Format Select the format in which you want the values to be displayed for fields in the column.
        Show this column when on a Dashboard Select this option to show this column on a dashboard, when the report is displayed side by side with another report. When this option is unselected, this column is not displayed when viewing the report on a dashboard where reports are displayed side by side.
        Column Rules Click + Add a Rule for this Column to define a rule for the column. After you add a rule, you can define field and text styles for how fields that match that rule are displayed. Click Add Rule after you have finished defining the rule.

        For more information about conditionally formatting views in reports, see the article Use conditional formatting in Text Mode.

  4. (Conditional) If you clicked Advanced Options, click Done.

  5. Click Save View to create a new view or to replace the current view with your changes.
    Or
    Click Save as New View to save your changes as a new view.

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    The Save as New View is the only option available when you customize a built-in Workfront view.

    Your access dictates how the view is saved. If you created the view originally, you can save the changes; otherwise, you are prompted to save a version. Keep in mind that changes you make to the view impact users with whom the view has been shared.

Create or customize a Board view create-or-customize-an-agile-view

You can manage projects following an Agile methodology using a Board view.

Board views are available only for lists of tasks and issues on a project.

They are preconfigured, but you can modify certain settings for them.

For more information about Agile or Board views, see the article Manage an Agile project in the Board view.

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