Deactivate or reactivate a company

Last update: February 7, 2025

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  • Admin

You can deactivate a company that you no longer use while retaining all of its associated historical data. If you deactivate a company already in use somewhere in the system, it continues to function just like it always has. It is not removed or blocked.

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:

Workfront plan

Current: Team or higher

Or

New: Any

Adobe Workfront license

Current: Plan

Or

New: Standard

Access level configurations

One of the following:

  • The System Administrator access level, which allows you to edit any company in the system.

  • Administrative access to manage companies, which allows you to edit any company in the system.

NOTE:

  • You can also manage companies associated with any group where you are assigned as a group administrator.

  • In order to add to and remove users from the Workfront system, you must have one of the following:

    • The System Administrator access level.

    • In your access level, Edit must be selected for the Users setting. Also, for the Users setting, under Fine-tune your settings , the Create option and at least one of the two User Admin options must be enabled.

      If you are using the User Admin (Group Users) option, you must be a group administrator of a group where the user is a member.

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

Deactivate or reactivate a company

  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. In the left panel, click Companies Companies icon .

  3. Select one or more companies to deactivate or reactivate.

  4. Click Edit.

  5. For a single company, disable the Is Active option to deactivate it, or enable the option to activate it.

    Or

    For multiple companies, select No from the Is Active drop-down menu to deactivate them, or Yes to activate them.

  6. Click Save Changes.