Activate goals in Adobe Workfront Goals

Last update: Fri Feb 21 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Topics:
Workfront Goals

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User

When you create a goal, Adobe Workfront Goals saves it with a status of Draft. Drafted goals are not part of goal management.

To keep track of how close you are to achieving a goal by updating its progress, you must activate it. This changes its status to Active.

For information about creating a goal, see Create goals in Adobe Workfront Goals.

IMPORTANT

You must activate a goal before you can update the progress of its results and activities.

Access requirements

You must have the following:

Adobe Workfront plan*

For the new plan and license structure:

An Ultimate plan

For the current plan and license structure:

A Pro or higher
An Adobe Workfront Goals license in addition to a Workfront license.

Adobe Workfront license*

New license: Contributor or higher

Current license: Request or higher

For more information, see Adobe Workfront licenses overview.

Product*

New product requirement, one of the following:

A Select or Prime Adobe Workfront plan and an additional Adobe Workfront Goals license.
An Ultimate Workfront plan which includes Workfront Goals by default.

Current product requirement: A Workfront plan and an additional license for Adobe Workfront Goals.

For information, see Requirements to use Workfront Goals.

Access level

Edit access to Goals

Object permissions

View or higher permissions to the goal to view it

Manage permissions to the goal to edit it

For information about sharing goals, see Share a goal in Workfront Goals.

Layout template

All users, including Workfront administrators, must be assigned a layout template that includes the Goals area in the Main Menu.

*For more information, see Access requirements in Workfront documentation.

Prerequisites

To activate a goal requires that the goal is associated with a progress indicator like an activity, result, project, or it is aligned to another active goal.

Do at least one of the following to be able to activate a goal:

Add a Result to the goal

For information, see Add results to goals in Adobe Workfront Goals.
Add an Activity to the goal

For information, see Add activities to goals in Adobe Workfront Goals.
Connect a project to the goal

For information, see Add projects to goals in Adobe Workfront Goals.
Align another goal to the goal you want to activate

For information , see Align goals by connecting them in Adobe Workfront Goals.

Activate goals

You can activate goals you created or a goal that you have Manage permissions to.

Go to a goal that you want to activate. The goal page opens.
Click the More menu to the right of the goal name, then click Activate.

The goal status changes to Active. You can now track progress on the goal and the goal displays in the Check-in section as well as is taken into account in the Graphs sections of Workfront Goals

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