Manage the GenStudio workspace in Adobe Workfront Planning

The Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing workspace is available in Adobe Workfront Planning when your company has purchased both products and your instance of Workfront is integrated with your company’s instance of GenStudio.

You can view the GenStudio workspace from Planning and update information in both systems.

For information about using and managing the GenStudio workspace from GenStudio Performance Marketing, see Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing User Guide.

For general information about the GenStudio to Workfront Planning integration, see Get started with the Adobe Workfront Planning and Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing integration.

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The steps described in this article illustrate how you can update the GenStudio workspace from Workfront Planning when you have Manage permissions to it.
Not all capabilities are available when you have Contribute permissions to the GenStudio workspace.
If your company has multiple instances of Workfront, all users get Contribute permissions on the GenStudio workspace in Workfront Planning.

Access requirements

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

Any Workfront package

Any Planning package

Additional products Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing
Adobe Workfront license Standard
Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing user roles
  • Any GenStudio user role to access Campaigns, Products, and Personas
  • GenSudio System Manager to access Activations

For information, see User roles and permissions.

Object permissions

In Workfront Planning:

  • Manage permissions to the GenStudio workspace to add new fields or record types to the GenStudio workspace

  • Contribute permissions to the GenStudio workspace to add, update, or delete records in the GenStudio workspace

No users can remove GenStudio for Performance Marketing record types or fields from the GenStudio workspace in Workfront Planning

In Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing:

  • Any permissions in Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing

  • Create permissions in Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing to create items

For information about Adobe Workfront Planning access, see Adobe Workfront Planning access overview.

For more information about Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing, see Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing User Guide.

Considerations for managing a GenStudio workspace in Workfront Planning

  • Your organization must purchase Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing before you can view a GenStudio workspace in Workfront Planning.

  • Depending on how many Workfront instances your organization has, you automatically have the following permissions to the GenStudio workspace in Planning:

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    One instance of Workfront

    The GenStudio workspace is visible in your instance of Workfront Planning

    Workfront administrators have Manage permissions to the GenStudio workspace in Planning

    All other users have Contribute access to the GenStudio workspace in Planning

    Multiple instances of Workfront

    The GenStudio workspace is visible from all Workfront instances

    All users with access to GenStudio for Performance Marketing and Workfront Planning have Contribute permissions on the GenStudio in Planning

  • Updating the workspace configuration, record types, views, and fields for a GenStudio workspace is identical with updating a Workfront Planning workspace with its elements.

Manage the GenStudio workspace from Workfront Planning

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Before managing the GenStudio workspace, see the article Get started with the Workfront Planning and GenStudio for Performance Marketing integration for more information.
  1. Log in to Workfront as a user who also has access to GenStudio.

  2. Click the Main Menu icon Main Menu in the upper-left corner, then click Planning.

    The Workfront Planning main page opens.

  3. Click Other workspaces and find a workspace that has an indication that was created by the System and has the GenStudio tag on its card.

    GenStudio workspace card with tag

  4. Click the GenStudio workspace card to open the GenStudio workspace in Workfront Planning.

  5. By default, the following GenStudio record types are created and visible from Workfront Planning:

    • Campaigns
    • Products
    • Personas
    • Activations
    • Channels
    • Regions

    There is an indication on the GenStudio record type card that they were originally created in GenStudio.

    GenStudio record type card with tag

  6. Click the More menu More menu to the right of the workspace name, then click one of the following:

  7. Click Share in the upper-right corner to share the workspace with others.

    For information, see Share workspaces

  8. Click any of the record type cards to view records for that type.

    To manage the record type, views, and fields, see the section Manage GenStudio record types from Workfront Planning in this article.

Manage record types, views, and records from the GenStudio workspace in Workfront Planning

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Before managing the GenStudio workspace, see the article Get started with the Workfront Planning and GenStudio for Performance Marketing integration for more information.
  1. Go to the GenStudio workspace in Workfront Planning and open a record type page, as described in the section Manage the GenStudio workspace from Workfront Planning in this article.

  2. Click the More menu More menu to the right of a record type name, then click one of the following:

  3. To share a view or the record type, do the following:

    • Click Share in the upper-right corner of the record type page, then click one of the following:

  4. To manage the record type views, do the following:

    • Click + View to create a view for the GenStudio record type.

      For information, see Manage record views.

    • Click the Full screen icon Open full view in full screen icon to open any view in full-screen mode.

    • Manage a view’s elements from any views.

      For example, you can change the filter, groupings, sort, settings of a view, where available.

      For information, see Manage record views.

  5. To add records, do one of the following:

    • Click New record from any view to create records from scratch

    • Import records using an Excel or CSV file in the table view

    • Click anywhere in the timeline or calendar views to add records.

      For information, see Create records.

      Records are visible from both Workfront and GenStudio.

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      You cannot add records for the Activations record type.
  6. To edit records, do one of the following:

    • Edit records inline from the table view

    • Click a record from any view to open its details page.

      For information, see Edit records.

      The changes you make from the GenStudio workspace in Planning are immediately visible from GenStudio.

  7. Select a record in the table view, then click Delete.

    For information, see Delete records.

    Deleted records are immediately removed from GenStudio.

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    Deleted records can be recovered from the table view Recently deleted bin in Workfront Planning. Records deleted from GenStudio can also be recovered from the Recently deleted bin in Workfront Planning.

    For information, see Restore deleted records

  8. Click the + icon in the upper-right corner of the table view to create the following:

    • Record fields

      For information, see Create fields

    • Record connections

      For information, see Connect record types

      Fields created from the GenStudio workspace are visible in the following areas:

      • Workfront Planning views
      • Workfront Planning record details
      • GenStudio record details
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      Fields created in Workfront Planning are not visible in the list view in GenStudio.
  9. Hover over a field in the table view, then click the drop-down menu to do one of the following:

    • Sort by it
    • Hide it
    • Edit its settings
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    NOTE
    You can edit a field’s configuration and add more fields only when you have Manage permissions in GenStudio.
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