View issues

You can view issues that are associated with a project, task, or iteration.

Access requirements

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

Adobe Workfront plan*
Any
Adobe Workfront license*

Request or higher

Review or higher license to view issues in the Issues section of a project.

Access level configurations*

View access to Issues

View or higher access to Projects and Tasks

Note: If you still don't have access, ask your Workfront administrator if they set additional restrictions in your access level. For information about access to issues in your Access Level, see Grant access to issues. For information on how a Workfront administrator can change your access level, see Create or modify custom access levels.

Object permissions

View permissions to the issue

For information about granting permissions to issues, see Share an issue

For information on requesting additional permissions, see Request access to objects.

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

View issues based on Status

To view issues on a project, task, or iteration:

  1. Open a project, task, or iteration that contains issues, then click Issues in the left panel.

  2. To display all, open, or closed issues, click any of the filters listed below from the Filter drop-down menu.

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The list of filters varies depending on what your system or group administrator selected to display in it.
  • Open: Displays issues that are open.

    This includes those associated with a Resolving Object and those in a Closed - Pending Approval status.

    For information about Resolving Objects, see Overview of Resolving and Resolvable Objects.

  • Completed: Displays all issues that have an Actual Completion Date.

  • All Displays all issues.

Understand information about issues

You can view information about an issue when you access it.

To access an issue and view information about it:

  1. Open a project, task, or iteration that contains issues, then click Issues in the left panel.

  2. From the Filter drop-down menu, select the filter to display the issues you are trying to view.

    Select from the following:

    • Open
    • Completed
    • All
  3. Click the name of an issue.

    When you have manage permissions to the issue you can edit any editable field in the issue and add approvals, hours, or documents to the issue.

  4. From the left panel, click any of the following to view more information about the issue:

  • Updates: You can perform the following actions :

    • Comment on the issue, or reply to an existing comment.

    • Log time.

    • Change the status of the issue.

      For more information about updating work in Workfront, see Update work.

  • Documents: Attach documents to the issue. For more information about adding documents to Workfront, see Add documents to Adobe Workfront from your file system.

  • Issue Details: Expand this link to display the Overview and Custom Forms areas.

    If you have manage permissions to the issue and edit rights on the custom form, you can edit some of the information here.

    View or edit the following fields in the Overview area:

    • Name

    • Path: the path through which the issue was logged to the project.

      If an issue was submitted as a request in a request queue, the names of the project, the Topic Group, and the Queue Topic are listed here. This field cannot be edited.

      For more information about submitting requests, see Create and submit Adobe Workfront requests.

    • Description

    • URL: any web address related to the issue.

    • Priority: a visual flag which allows you to prioritize issues.

    • Severity: a visual flag which indicates how severe the problem described in the issue is.

    • Primary Contact: the default Primary Contact is the user who created the issue. This field can be edited.

    • Planned Hours: displays the amount of time that will take someone to complete the issue. The default is 8 hours. This field can be edited.

    • Actual Hours: displays the amount of time that it took to complete the issue. This is the actual time that someone logs for the issue.

    • Planned Start Date: the date when the issue is planned to start. The default is the date and the time when the issue was created.

    • Actual Start Date: the date and the time when the issue status was changed to In Progress.

    • Planned Completion Date: the date when the issue is planned to be completed.

    • Actual Completion Date: the date when the issue is actually completed. This field is filled in automatically when the issue status changes to Closed or Resolved, or can be manually edited.

    • Actual Cost: the cost based on the Actual Hours logged on the issue. This field is not editable. The Actual Cost of an issue is calculated based on the following formula, where the User Cost Rate is the cost rate associated with the user logging the time to the issue:

      Issue Actual Cost = Hours Logged * User Cost Rate

    • Entered By: this is the user who created the issue. This field is not editable.

    • Last Updated By: this is the user who updated any field on the issue last. This field is not editable.

      In the Custom Forms area , view of select one or several custom forms to associate with the issue.

  • Hours: Shows a list of hour entries on the issue.

  • Approvals: Shows the approval paths associated with the issue.

    For more information about associating approvals with an issue, see the Associating an approval process with a work item section in Create an approval process for work items.

View which projects and tasks have issues

You can add icons in the view of a project or task report or list to show whether they have issues attached. Adding icons to the view of a report or list is similar for projects and tasks.

To add icons that display whether a project has issues in a project report:

  1. Click the Main Menu icon in the upper-right corner of Adobe Workfront.

  2. Click Reporting > New Report > Project Report.

  3. In the Show in this column field, start typing Status Icons, then select it when it appears in the list.

  4. Click Save + Close .

    The issue icons display on the projects that have issues in the Status Icons column.

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