Enable custom quarters

Last update: June 11, 2025

Topics:
System Setup and Administration

CREATED FOR:

Admin

The highlighted information on this page refers to functionality not yet generally available. It is available only in the Preview environment for all customers who have purchased Adobe Workfront Planning. After the monthly releases to Production, the same features are also available in the Production environment for customers who enabled fast releases.

For information about fast releases, see Enable or disable fast releases for your organization.

For reporting purposes, you might want to create custom quarters if your organization’s quarters are based on specific criteria other than calendar dates (such as business days or shopping days).

Depending on what products your company has purchased, you can configure the following number of quarters in your Workfront Setup area:

Customers who purchased Workfront only, can configure up to eight custom quarters for the Adobe Workfront system.
Customers who purchased Workfront and Workfront Planning, can configure up to 100 quarters for the Workfront system which are also available in Planning.

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:

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.

Set up custom quarters for your Workfront system

Click the Main Menu icon in the upper-right corner of Adobe Workfront, or (if available), click the Main Menu icon in the upper-left corner, then click Setup .
Click Project Preferences > Projects.
In the Timelines section, select Enable Custom Quarters.
Type a name for the custom quarter, such as “Fiscal Q1 2021.”
Select start and end dates for the custom quarter.
(Optional) Click Add Custom Quarter to add additional custom quarters to the system.

IMPORTANT
If your company purchased Workfront Planning, you cannot save your custom quarters if there are gaps or overlaps between the quarters.

Gaps and overlaps between the quarters are allowed for Workfront only customers.
(Optional and conditional) If your company purchased only Workfront, without Workfront Planning, create a reporting element that refers to the fiscal quarters.

Example: Create a filter for a project list and include the Planned Completion Date of a project referencing the custom quarters.

The references to “This Quarter”, “Next Quarter”, and “Last Quarter” are replaced with new references to the custom quarters.

For information about reporting elements, see Reporting elements: filters, views, and groupings.

For information about creating filters, see Create or edit filters in Adobe Workfront.
(Optional and conditional) If you have access to Workfront Planning, go to a record type page and open a timeline view. The view displays the new custom quarters.