Formula fields overview

IMPORTANT
The information in this article refers to Adobe Workfront Planning, an additional capability from Adobe Workfront.
You must have the following to access Workfront Planning:
  • A new Workfront plan and license. Workfront Planning is not available for legacy Workfront plans or licenses.
  • An additional license for Workfront Planning.
  • Your organization’s instance of Workfront must be onboarded to the Adobe Unified Experience.
For a complete list of requirements to access Workfront Planning, see Access overview.
For more information about Workfront Planning, see Adobe Workfront Planning overview.

You can create custom fields in Adobe Workfront Planning by referring to existing fields and connecting them in a Formula-type field.

Formula fields generate a new value using existing values from other fields in a record type and a function that indicates how the existing values should be calculated.

For information, see the “Formula” section in the article Create fields.

Access requirements

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You must have the following access to perform the steps in this article:

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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 plan*

Any

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

Workfront Planning is not available for legacy Workfront licenses

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

Manage permissions to a workspace

System Administrators have permissions to all workspaces, including the ones they did not create

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

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

Considerations about formula fields

  • Formula fields reference fields that belong to the same record type.

  • You can reference fields from other record types only when you connect another record type to the one you’re creating a formula field for.

  • You cannot change the Field type of a Formula field after you save it.

  • You can update the calculation of a formula field after you save it, and the results of the calculation update automatically for all the records of the same type.

  • You must add the fields you reference in formulas as they display in the Workfront Planning interface.

  • You can reference only fields that display in the table view of a record type or on the record details page.

  • You can define the format for the value of a formula calculation by choosing from the following format options:

    • Text
    • Number
    • Percent
    • Currency
    • Tags
    • Date

    For more information, see the “Formula” section in the article Create fields.

Supported formulas

Adobe Workfront Planning formula fields support all expressions from the Workfront calculated fields. For a list of Workfront expressions, see Overview of calculated data expressions.

In addition, we support the following expressions for Workfront Planning formula fields:

Expression
Explanation and example
ARRAYJOIN

Returns concatenated string by delimiter.

The expression is formatted as follows:

ARRAYJOIN(delimiter,array)

ARRAYUNIQUE

Returns array with unique values.

The expression is formatted as follows:

ARRAYUNIQUE(array)

ID

Returns the ID of a record. Each record has a unique ID.

The expression is formatted as follows:

{ID}

SETTIMEZONE

Sets the timezone of a date and time to a specific timezone.

The expression is formatted as follows:

SETTIMEZONE(date,‘America/Los_Angeles’)

WEEKOFYEAR

Returns the week number in a year. Optionally, you can indicate which day the week starts on (use 1 for Sunday, or 2 for Monday). If omitted, weeks start on Sunday, by default.

The expression is formatted as follows:

WEEKOFYEAR(date,2)
or
WEEKOFYEAR(date)

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