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Create a milestone path

Last update: Mon Oct 13 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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As an Adobe Workfront administrator, you can create milestone paths which can then be applied to any project in the system. The changes you make to milestone paths in this area affect the entire Workfront system.

Access requirements

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

Standard

Plan
Access level configurations System Administrator

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

Milestones and milestone paths

You can associate the key tasks in a project with predefined milestones. This function can provide managers and other stakeholders with a high-level overview as to how a project is progressing.

The sum of all the predefined milestones is called a milestone path.

The first step in building a milestone path is identifying what the milestone steps are and establishing the milestones. Because you can associate a milestone path to multiple projects, the milestone steps must be general phases or stages of any project.

For more information on how you can associate a milestone path with a project and a milestone with a task, see Associate milestones with tasks.

Create a milestone path

  1. Click the Main Menu icon Main Menu in the upper-right corner of Adobe Workfront, or (if available), click the Main Menu icon Main Menu in the upper-left corner, then click Setup Setup icon .

  2. Click Processes > Milestone Paths.

  3. Click New Milestone Path.

    The New Milestone Path box opens.

    New milestone path box

  4. Click Basic Info in the left panel.

    Update the following information:

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    Milestone Path Name Enter a name for the milestone path.
    Description Enter a description to define the milestone path.
    Is Active Select this checkbox if you want the milestone path to be active. Other users can find this path and attach it to projects when creating or editing projects. Inactive milestone paths cannot be attached to projects. This is enabled by default.
    Groups Select the groups listed to allow users in these groups to see and apply this milestone path to their projects. The home group of the user entering the milestone path is selected by default.

  5. Click Milestones in the left panel.

  6. Click New row to add milestones to the path.

  7. Update the following information:

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    Name Type descriptive names for each milestone.
    Description Type a description for the milestone.
    Color

    Choose a color to associate with your milestone.

    If you do not choose a color, the system chooses the last color used in a milestone path. We recommend that you choose a unique color for each milestone. The color is used for visual and reporting purposes.

  8. (Optional) Drag and drop each milestone to reorder them.

  9. Click Create Milestone Path to save your changes.

    Your milestone path is ready to be associated with a project.

    For more information on how to associate milestone paths to projects and milestones to tasks, see Associate milestones with tasks.

  10. (Optional) From the Milestone Paths list, select one milestone, then click the Edit icon Edit icon to open the milestone path and edit its information.

  11. (Optional) Click the Export icon Export icon , then select from the following formats to export the milestone path list to a file:

    • PDF
    • Excel
    • Excel (xlsx)
    • Tab Delimited

  12. (Optional) Select one or several milestones in the milestone list, then click the Delete icon Delete icon to delete it.

  13. Click Yes, Delete it.

    The milestone is deleted and cannot be recovered. The milestone path is removed from any project previously associated with it and all milestones are removed from the tasks associated with them.

    Deleted milestones cannot be recovered.

View milestone path details in a project report

You can view the details of a milestone path in a project report.

You must associate a milestone path with a project before you can see its details in a project report.

For information about associating milestone paths to projects, see Edit projects.

  1. Click the Main Menu icon Main Menu in the upper-right corner of Adobe Workfront, or (if available), click the Main Menu icon Main Menu in the upper-left corner, then click Reports.

  2. Click New Report, then click Project.

  3. Click Add Column.

  4. In the Show in this column area, start typing Milestone Path, then click Milestone Path Name when it displays.

  5. (Optional) Click Filters and add the following filter to the report: Project Milestone Path ID Is Not Blank.

    The filter ensures that you only display projects that are associated with a milestone path in the report.

  6. Click Save + Close.

  7. Add a name for your report, then click Apply.

    The project report displays. The milestone paths associated with each project display in the last column of the report.

  8. Click the name of a milestone path in the report’s last column.

    The milestone path’s details display.

    Milestone path details from project report

    The milestone path details page displays the following information:

    • Milestone path name, ID, and Description
    • Milestone path groups
    • Milestone names, descriptions, colors, and color icons

  9. (Optional) Click Back to go back to the project report.

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