Grant access to Scenario Planner
As an Adobe Workfront administrator, you can use an access level to define a user’s access to Scenario Planner, as explained in Access levels overview.
In addition to access to Scenario Planner, a user with a non-System Administrator access level must also have access to financial data in order to see any financial information contained in a plan, such as budgets, costs, and job role rates. For more information, see Grant access to financial data.
Access requirements
You must have the following:
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| Adobe Workfront plan* | Business or higher |
| Adobe Workfront license* | Review or higher. For more information, see Licenses overview. |
| Product |
You must purchase an additional license for the Adobe Workfront Scenario Planner to access functionality described in this article. For information about obtaining the Workfront Scenario Planner, see Access needed to use the Scenario Planner. |
| Access level* |
View access or higher to the Scenario Planner NOTE: If you still don't have access, ask your Workfront administrator if they set additional restrictions in your access level. For information on how a Workfront administrator can change your access level, see Create or modify custom access levels. |
| Object permissions |
View permissions or higher for a plan For information on requesting additional access to a plan, see Request access to a plan in the Scenario Planner. |
*To find out what plan, license type, or access you have, contact your Workfront administrator.
Configure user access to Scenario Planner using a custom access level
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Begin creating or editing the access level, as explained in Create or modify custom access levels.
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Click the option to the right of Scenario Planner that you want to use for this access level.
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(Optional) To configure access settings for other objects and areas in the access level you are working on, continue with one of the articles listed in Configure access to Adobe Workfront, such as Grant access to tasks and Grant access to financial data.
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When you are finished, click Save.
Access to Scenario Planner by license type
For information about what users in each access level can do with the Scenario Planner, see the section Scenario Planner area in the article Functionality available for each object type.
Scenario Planner access by access level setting
The following information can help you understand how to use the Access level settings to control users’ access to information in the Workfront Scenario Planner.
No access no-access
A user with no access to Scenario Planner can neither see the Scenarios icon in the Main Menu when it is added to their layout template, nor view plans and initiatives that are shared with them. If the link to a plan is shared with a user who has no access to Scenario Planner, the user cannot view or edit the plan.
View access view-access
Users with View access to Scenario Planner can do the following:
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See the Scenarios icon in the Main Menu
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View a plan when another user shares the link to it.
This includes any job role information in the plan.
It also includes job role rates and cost information on the plan if the recipient user also has access to financial data. For more information, see Grant access to financial data.
Edit access edit-access
Users with Edit access to Scenario Planner can do the following:
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See the Scenarios icon in the Main Menu
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Create plans.
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View, edit, and delete plans that they create.
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View, edit, and delete other users’ plans that they access using a shared link.
This includes any job role information in a plan.
It also includes job role rates and cost information on the plan if the recipient user has access to financial data. For more information, see Grant access to financial data.