Key takeaways

  • Work Effort Feature for Estimating Planned Hours: The Work Effort feature in Workfront helps estimate planned hours for tasks based on their duration, making it easier to create project plans when planned hours are difficult to estimate. ​
  • Customizable Work Effort Percentages: Workfront calculates planned hours using percentages of task duration (e.g., Medium Work Effort = 50%, Large Work Effort = 75%), and these percentages can be adjusted as needed. ​
  • Simple Duration Type Requirement: Work Effort is only available for tasks with a simple duration type. ​ Tasks with other duration types must be changed to simple before using Work Effort. ​
  • Inline and Bulk Editing Options: Work Effort can be adjusted for individual tasks using Inline Edit or for multiple tasks simultaneously using the Bulk Edit feature. ​
  • Creating a Custom Work Effort View: Users can create a custom Work Effort view to easily manage and edit Work Effort settings. ​ This involves adding columns for Work Effort and other relevant fields, such as Planned Hours or Duration Type. ​

For more information on Work Effort, see the Work Effort overview article.

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