Adobe Workfront Planning access overview

Last update: May 7, 2025

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The highlighted information on this page refers to functionality not yet generally available. It is available only in the Preview environment for all customers. 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.

IMPORTANT
The information in this article refers to Adobe Workfront Planning, an additional capability from Adobe Workfront.
Your company must purchase an additional license for Workfront Planning to access its capabilities.
For more information, contact your account manager
For more information about Workfront Planning, see Adobe Workfront Planning overview.

There are license and sharing permission restrictions to use Adobe Workfront Planning.

This article describes the access and settings that you need in place to use the capabilities of Workfront Planning.

Access requirements

You must have the following access to access Workfront Planning:

Products

  • Adobe Workfront

  • Adobe Workfront Planning

Adobe Workfront plan*

Any of the following Workfront plans:

  • Select
  • Prime
  • Ultimate

Workfront Planning is not available for legacy Workfront plans

Adobe Workfront Planning package*

Any of the following Workfront Planning plans:

  • Planning
  • Planning Plus

For more information about what is included in each Workfront Planning plan, contact your Workfront account manager.

Adobe Workfront platform

Your organization's instance of Workfront must be onboarded to the Adobe Unified Experience to be able to access all the capabilities of Workfront Planning.

For more information, see Adobe Unified Experience for Workfront.

Adobe Workfront license*

  • Standard, Light, or Contributor, to view Workfront Planning information

  • Standard, to create workspaces and views

Workfront Planning is not available for legacy Workfront licenses

Access level configurationThere are no access level controls for Adobe Workfront Planning
Object permissions

  • View or higher permissions to workspaces, record types and views that you did not create to access them and their objects.

  • Contribute or higher permissions to workspaces and record types that you did not create to edit them and create, edit, or delete record types and records.

  • Contribute or higher permissions to views that you did not create, to edit, delete, and share them

  • System Administrators can manage workspaces they did not create.

  • System Administrators cannot access views they did not create.

For information about sharing permissions for Workfront Planning objects, see Overview of sharing permissions in Adobe Workfront Planning

Layout template

Standard users and System Administrators have the Planning areas enabled by default.

Users with a Light or Contributor license must be assigned a layout template that includes the Planning option in the following areas:

  • Main Menu
  • Left panel of projects, portfolios, and programs

For more information, see Create and manage layout templates.

NOTE

In the Production environment, all users including the System administrators must be assigned to a layout template that includes the Planning areas.

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

Share the Planning area using a layout template

After your organization has purchased an additional Workfront Planning license, your system administrator can add the Planning option to the following areas by modifying and assigning you to a layout template:

  • Main menu
  • Landing page
  • Left panel for projects, portfolios, and programs
  • Pins

Standard users and System Administrators have the Planning areas enabled by default in the following areas:

  • Main Menu
  • Left panel of projects, portfolios, or programs

To add or remove Workfront Planning areas from users of your Workfront instance:

  1. Log in to Workfront as a Workfront administrator.

  2. Go to Main menu > Setup > Interface > Layout Templates and open or create a layout template.

    For information about customizing a layout template, see Create and manage layout templates.

  3. Assign the layout template to the users that you want to have access to Workfront Planning.

    For information, see Assign users to a layout template.

    All users assigned to the template can now access Workfront Planning in their Main Menu.

    Users can start creating workspaces, records types, records, and fields.

Grant access

There are no Workfront access controls for Workfront Planning.

Users with any type of Workfront license can access Workfront Planning.

Grant permissions

You must give users permissions to Workfront Planning workspaces and views that you create for them to access them.

For more information, see Overview of sharing permissions in Adobe Workfront Planning.

Your Adobe Workfront license type works with your Workfront Planning permissions to give you access to view, contribute, or manage Workfront Planning objects.

For information about how license types affect permission levels for Workfront Planning objects, see License type overview when using Adobe Workfront Planning.