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Edit and create risk types

Last update: Fri Mar 14 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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Adobe Workfront has a number of default risk types that you can associate with projects in the planning phase to identify potential obstacles prior to the approval of any work.

Risks are possible events that could prevent completion of the project on time or within budget.

In addition to the default risk types, you can add new risk type to reflect the needs in your organization.

You can associate risk types with project risks to identify what kind of risk a project might encounter.

Access requirements

Expand to view access requirements for the functionality in this article.

You must have the following access to perform the steps in this article:

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Adobe Workfront plan Any
Adobe Workfront license

New: Standard

Or

Current: Plan
Access level configurations System Administrator

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

Risks types

Risk types are labels you can use for your risks to categorize them for reporting purposes.

As a Workfront administrator, you can create Risk Types in the Setup area.

After setting up risk types, they are universal to your system.

All project owners can use the same risk types for their projects.

Edit and create risk types

Some risk types are already in Workfront, by default.

You can do the following to enhance the number of risk types in your Workfront instance:

Edit existing risk types edit-existing-risk-types

  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 Risk Types.

  3. Select the risk type you want to edit.

  4. Click the Edit icon Edit icon .

    The Edit Risk Type box opens.

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    You can edit risk type information inline, when you double-click the Name or Description of a risk type in the list.

  5. (Optional) Change the name and the description of the risk type.

    There is a character limit of 50 characters for the Name and the Description fields.

  6. Click Save Changes.

  7. (Optional) To delete a risk type, select it in the list, then click the Delete icon Delete icon , then click Yes, Delete It. The risk type is deleted and cannot be recovered.

  8. (Optional) To export a list of risk types, click the Export icon Export icon . You can export to the following file types:

    • PDF
    • Excel
    • Excel (xlsx)
    • Tab Delimited
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    You can first select a limited number of risk types, and then export them for a smaller list.

Create risk types create-risk-types

You can create risk types, in addition to the default ones.

  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 Risk Types.

  3. Click New Risk Type to open the New Risk Type box

    Or

    Click Add More Risk Types in the lower-left corner of the risk type list to add risk types inline.

  4. Type a Name (required) and a Description (optional) for the risk type.

    There is a character limit of 50 characters for the Name and the Description fields.

  5. Click Create Risk Type,

    Or, if you used in-line edit to add your risk type, click Enter when you are done.

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    To edit a custom risk type, see the section Edit existing risk types in this article.

Attach risks with risk types on projects

You can use risks types to label risks added to your projects.

For more information on how to add risks to projects, see Create and edit risks on projects.

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