Update issue severity

Last update: October 7, 2025

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You can associate a severity with issues in Adobe Workfront. Tasks and projects do not have severities.

Issues are unexpected events that can prevent your projects from finishing on time or within budget. You can use severities to indicate how serious an issue is.

Your Workfront administrator defines the severities available in Workfront. After they establish them, they are available for you to associate with an issue.
For more information about creating severities in Workfront, see Create or customize issue severities.

You must have Contribute permissions on an issue to be able to update its severity.

You can update the severity of issues in the following areas of Workfront:

In the Edit Issue dialog box
In the Issue Details area of an issue
In an issue list or report

Access requirements

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

Adobe Workfront package	Any
Adobe Workfront license	Contributor or higher Request or higher
Access level configurations	Edit access to Issues
Object permissions	Manage permissions to the issue

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

Update issue severity

To update the severity of an issue in the Issue Details area of an issue:

Go to the issue whose severity you want to update.
Click Issue Details in the left panel.

The Overview section should display by default.
Click the Severity field in the Basic information area.
Select the appropriate Severity from the drop-down menu.

Depending on how your Workfront administrator configured severities in your system, the options might vary.
Click Save Changes.