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Create filters with date-based wildcards

Last update: April 10, 2026

CREATED FOR:

  • Intermediate
  • User

In this video, you will learn how to:

  • Know when to use date-based wildcards
  • Understand the difference between Workfront’s two date-based wildcards
  • Add a date-based wildcard to a filter
  • Create a custom date using wildcards, attributes, operators, and modifiers
  • Create a custom date range using wildcards
https://video.tv.adobe.com/v/336812/?quality=12&learn=on&enablevpops=0
https://video.tv.adobe.com/vc/336812/eng.json

“Create filters with date-based wildcards” activities

Activity questions

  1. How would you build the filter rule if you wanted issues that have a due date of yesterday or today?
  2. How would you build the filter rule to find projects that were due last week?
  3. The following filter rules are part of a task report you use regularly. What type of results would you get from this report?

An image of the screen to create a task filter with a date-based wildcard

Answers

  1. Filter on the issue planned completion date between $$TODAY-1d and $$TODAY.
  2. Filter on the project planned complete date between $$TODAYb-1w and $$TODAYe-1w.
  3. This report finds tasks assigned to you that aren’t yet finished (in other words, have a percent complete less than 100), and that are overdue or due today. The filter rule for the planned completion date of the tasks says to look at tasks that have a due date that is equal to or before today’s date.
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