Notifications: Goals

Last update: February 28, 2025

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You can enable your email notifications for events occurring in Adobe Workfront Goals in your profile. A user with a Plan license can also enable them for other users. For information, see Adobe Workfront notifications.

Access requirements

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You must have the following:

Adobe Workfront plan*	Pro or higher
Adobe Workfront license*	Request or higher
Product	Workfront Goals For information about Workfront Goals, see Adobe Workfront Goals overview.
Access level configurations*	View access to Goals or higher Note: If you still don't have access, ask your Workfront administrator if they set additional restrictions in your access level. For information on how a Workfront administrator can change your access level, see Create or modify custom access levels.

*To find out what plan, license type, or access you have, contact your Workfront administrator.

Prerequisites

The user whose Goals notifications you want to update must have a Layout Template that includes the Goals area in the Main Menu.

Goals notifications in the user profile area

The notifications listed in the following table alert you about events happening in Workfront Goals, such as someone assigning you a goal, result, or activity or someone making an update on a goal, result, or activity that you own. For information about configuring which notifications you receive, see Modify your own email notifications.

Notifications preferences

NOTE

Instant notifications for Goals are disabled by default. You cannot enable or disable daily notifications and you do not receive daily digest emails for the events in this category. You can enable or disable individual instant notifications for the Goals category.

See also Event notifications.

Notification	Fields included *Instant notifications only
Someone assigned a Result/ an Activity to me	The name of the person who assigned the result or activity to you The Period of the goal for the result or activity The name of the result or activity The Open in web app button which opens the Goal Details panel The Change Notifications Settings button which allows you to manage your notifications.
Someone created a new personal Goal for me	The name of the person who assigned the goal The Period of the goal The name of the goal The Open in web app button which opens the Goal Details panel The Change Notifications Settings button which allows you to manage your notifications.
Someone left a comment on my Goal	The name of the person who left the comment The Period of the goal The name of the goal The text of the comment The Open in web app button which opens the Goal Details panel The Change Notifications Settings button which allows you to manage your notifications.
Someone liked my comment on a Goal	The name of the person who liked the comment The Period of the goal The name of the goal The text of the comment The Open in web app button which opens the Goal Details panel The Change Notifications Settings button which allows you to manage your notifications.
Someone liked an update on my Goal	You receive an email when someone likes a comment you made on a goal or when you update the progress of your results or activities on the goal. The name of the person who liked the update The Period of the goal The name of the goal The Open in web app button which opens the Goal Details panel The Change Notifications Settings button which allows you to manage your notifications.

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