Get started with the Adobe Workfront Planning Designer
You can use the Adobe Planning Designer powered by AI to configure your workspaces and data structures with ease. The Planning Designer supports everything from creating and configuring workspaces to defining fields and formulas, managing records, reviewing change history and building custom views.
Whether used directly or through the AI Assistant, the Planning Designer provides a flexible, powerful environment for building and maintaining structured, connected information.
For information about Workfront Planning, see the following articles:
Access requirements
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| Adobe Workfront packages |
Any Workfront and Planning package Any Workflow and Planning package |
| Adobe Workfront license | Standard |
| Object permissions |
Manage permissions to a workspace System Administrators have permissions to all workspaces, including the ones they did not create |
For more information about Workfront access requirements, see Access requirements in Workfront documentation.
Enroll in the Closed Beta program for the Planning Designer
Currently, you can request to participate in the Closed Beta program for the Planning Designer by sending us an email to sargism@adobe.com.
After we receive the email, our Engineering team will turn on the Planning Designer in your Workfront instance.
Submit feedback about the Planning Designer
You can submit feedback about the Planning Designer during the beta program.
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Log in to Workfront, then click the Main Menu icon
The Planning area opens.
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Click Create with AI.
The Planning Designer window opens.
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Click Submit feedback here at the bottom of the page.
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Add your feedback in the space provided, then click Submit.
Your feedback is submitted to the Engineering and Product teams.
Considerations about the Planning Designer
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To use the Planning Designer, you first need to turn on the AI Assistant for your organization. The following must be in place for the AI Assistant to be available to everyone in your organization:
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Workfront must make the AI Assistant available for your organization.
For details, see Prerequisites to AI Assistant.
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After Workfront makes the AI Assistant available for your organization, the main Workfront administrator can access it.
For information, see Configure basic information for your system.
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The Workfront administrator must accept the AI Assistant agreement, and then turn on the AI Assistant for all other users.
For more information, see Enable or disable AI Assistant.
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After your System Administrator turned on the AI Assistant for your organization, the Planning Designer is available for all users, by default, if it has been made available for your organization.
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Actions performed by the Planning Designer can also be performed by the AI Assistant, when you use it in the Planning area.
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The actions performed by the AI Assistant in the Planning area or those performed by the Planning Designer are in the context of your Workfront Planning permissions and your Workfront access level.
For information, see the following articles:
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Changes made by the AI Assistant or the Planning Designer on the user’s behalf are tracked in the record’s history panel.
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Actions done by the Planning Designer are permanent and could be irreversible. For example, deleting a field cannot be reversed. Review all actions that are proposed by the Designer before accepting them.
note important IMPORTANT When creating, updating, or deleting an object through the Planning Designer, the prompt will ask for confirmation only for the actions that are irreversible. For example, deleting a record type or a workspace is irreversible. Deleting a record is not. The Planning Designer will ask for confirmation only when trying to delete a record type or workspace. -
When you create workspaces and record types using the Planning Designer, views and fields are also created automatically.
Functionality currently available for the Planning Designer
You can use either the Planning Designer or the AI Assistant to perform any of the following actions:
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Create and configure workspaces
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Create record types, including defining and adding global record types to workspaces
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Design fields or formula fields
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Create, delete, duplicate, and restore records
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Edit, update, append a field in a record
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Link records to other records
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Access record change history
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Build custom views
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Create records by importing a document
For example, you can upload a picture of an org chart in your company, and the Planning Designer can create a workspace based on it.
Creating objects from an imported document is available only in the Planning Designer, and not in the AI Assistant.
note important IMPORTANT Although we support .XLSX and .CSV file types, they cannot be used for large-scale record import through the Planning Designer.
If you need to import a substantial number of records at this time, we recommend that you do so by using the manual capabilities available in Planning.For more information, see Create records by importing information from a CSV or Excel file.
For file type limitations, see the “Get suggestions based on a document you upload” section in the Use Form Fill powered by AI to fill in a request using prompts or documents.
Create or update objects using the Planning Designer
You can create or update objects in Workfront Planning either by using the Planning Designer, or the AI Assistant, unless otherwise specified.
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Log in to Workfront, then click the Main Menu icon
The Planning area opens.
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Click Create with AI.
The Planning Designer window opens.
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In the space provided, start typing prompts for the AI Assistant, then click Enter when you are done.
For example, you may type prompts similar to the ones below:
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Create and configure a workspace with five record types to manage campaigns
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Create marketing campaigns for every month of the current year
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Add a campaign field for Status for the Marketing Design workspace
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Delete all records in a Status of Stale
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Update all Planning campaigns to a status of Active
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Connect Campaigns to Personas in the Marketing Design workspace
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Display the change history for the “Valentine’s Day” campaign
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Build a timeline view for campaigns in the Marketing Design workspace
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Create records by importing a document. Creating records from an imported document is available only in the Planning Designer, and not in the AI Assistant.
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After receiving a successful response, follow the links provided in the prompt area to create, update or review the object of your request.
When you agree to create your objects, your changes display to the right of the prompt area.
You can view workspaces, record types, fields, views and records in the preview area to the right of the prompt.
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(Optional) Type additional prompts to edit your objects further.
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(Optional) Click the Show or hide preview screen icon
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Click the Open workspace in new tab icon
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Click the Close icon X to close the Planning Designer and open the Workspaces area.
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Open the workspace you edited using the Planning Designer and make further changes to its objects.
Turn off the Planing Designer for your organization
After your Workfront administrator accepts the AI Assistant agreement, the Planning Designer is turned on for everyone in your organization, by default.
To turn it off:
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Log in to Workfront as a System Administrator.
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Click Main Menu
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Click System > in the left panel, then go to the AI preferences area.
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Turn off the Planning Onboarding setting.
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Click Save.
This removes the Planning Designer for all users in the system.