Delete and deactivate goals in Adobe Workfront Goals

Last update: April 1, 2025

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When you start working on a goal and it becomes irrelevant in your organization, we recommend deactivating it, instead of deleting it. Deactivating a goal keeps its historical information and gives you a chance to reactivate it at a later time. There are times, however, when deleting a goal might make sense, to keep your goal list accurate.

Access requirements

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

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

Or

Current license: Request or higher

For more information, see Adobe Workfront licenses overview.

Product*

New product requirement: Workfront

Or

Current product requirement: In addition to a Workfront license, you must purchase a license for Adobe Workfront Goals.

For information, see Requirements to use Workfront Goals.

Access levelEdit 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 templateAll 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.

Deactivate goals

You can deactivate a goal that is no longer relevant and that you might want to reactivate in the future.

Considerations when deactivating goals

Remember the following when deactivating goals:

  • You can only deactivate goals in an Active status. For information about activating a goal, see Activate goals in Adobe Workfront Goals.

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    You cannot deactivate goals in a Draft status.

  • Workfront stops calculating the progress of deactivated goals.

  • Inactive goals no longer display on or are taken into account in the Graphs section of Workfront Goals. For information about Workfront Goals graphs, see Review graphs to understand goal progress trends in Adobe Workfront Goals.

  • You can no longer make updates on deactivated goals.

  • You can edit information about the goal and its alignment.

  • You can reactivate a previously deactivated goal.

Deactivate goals

  1. Click the Main Menu icon Main Menu icon in the upper right corner, then click Goals.

    The goal list displays.

  2. (Optional) Modify your filters to display only goals that are active.

    For information about filtering information in Workfront Goals, see Filter information in Adobe Workfront Goals.

  3. Click an active goal.

    The goal page opens.

    Goal page

  4. Click the More menu More icon to the right of the goal name, then click Deactivate.

  5. The goal is deactivated and its status becomes Inactive.