Associate resource pools with projects and templates

Last update: February 12, 2025

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Resource Management

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Resource pools are collections of users what help you manage resources in Adobe Workfront.

After you create resource pools, you can associate them with projects or templates so you can later budget your resources on the projects.

We recommend that you create your resource pools in advance, associate them with projects, and budget your resources before the project starts.

For information about resource pools, see Resource pools overview.

For information about creating resource pools, see Create resource pools.

Access requirements

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

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

Adobe Workfront plan	New: Any or Current: Pro or higher
Adobe Workfront license	New: Standard or Current: Plan
Access level configurations	Edit access to Resource Management that includes access to Manage Resource Pools Edit access to Projects, Templates, and Users
Object permissions	Manage permissions for the projects, templates, and users that you want to associate the Resource Pools with

For more detail about the information in this table, see Access requirements in Workfront documentation.

Associate resource pools with one project or template

You can associate resource pools with a template in the same manner you associate resource pools with a project. This article describes how you can associate resource pools with projects.

Go to a project and click the More icon next to the project name, then click Edit.
Click Project Settings.
Start typing the name of a resource pool in the Resource Pools field, then select it from the list when it appears.
You can associate multiple resource pools with one project or template.
Click Save.

For more information about how to edit a project and associate it with resource pools, see Edit projects.

For more information about how to edit a template and associate it with resource pools, see Edit project templates.

Associate resource pools with several projects or templates in bulk

You can edit multiple projects or templates in bulk and associate the same resource pools with all of them at the same time.

You can associate resource pools with templates in the same manner you associate resource pools with projects.

To associate resource pools with several projects in bulk:

Go to a list of projects.
Select multiple projects, then click the Edit icon at the top of the list.
Click Settings.
Start typing the name of a resource pool in the Resource Pools field, then select it from the list when it appears.
You can associate multiple resource pools with the projects or templates.
NOTE
When you edit templates in bulk, only the resource pools that are common to all the templates selected appear in this field. If the templates selected have no shared resource pools, this field is empty. The resource pools you specify here overwrite the individual resource pools of the projects or templates.

When you edit projects in bulk, there is a “Multiple values” indicator if the selected projects have different resource pools. If you add resource pools in bulk for projects, all the pools are added to the selected project, overwriting the original resource pools.
Click Save Changes.
When your resource pools are associated with your projects or your templates, you can budget user allocations for your projects inside the Resource Planner.
For more information about the Resource Planner, see Resource Planner overview.