View project Planned Hours in the Role Allocation panel

Last update: July 31, 2024

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You can view role allocation for all job roles assigned to work items in a project in the Role Allocation panel of the project.

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This article refers to viewing the job roles associated with tasks and issues on a project and their allocated Planned Hours in the Role Allocation panel of a project. For information about reconciling Planned Hours with initiatives hours using the Role Allocation Panel when using the Adobe Workfront Scenario Planner, see the following:

Access requirements

You must have the following:

Adobe Workfront plan*Any
Adobe Workfront license*Review or higher
Access level configurations*

View or higher access to Projects

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 modify your access level, see Create or modify custom access levels.

Object permissions

View or higher permissions on the project

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

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

Prerequisites

You must have the following:

  • Tasks or issues assigned to job roles or to users associated with a job role.

    TIP
    If the tasks or issues are unassigned, assigned to teams, or are assigned to users with no job role, the Planned Hours of the project is zero in the Role Allocation panel.

  • Tasks and issues with a Duration higher than zero.

View project Planned Hours in the Role Allocation panel

  1. Click the Main Menu icon in the upper-right corner of Adobe Workfront, then click Projects.

  2. Click the name of a project to access it. This opens the Project page.

  3. Click one of the following in the left panel:

    • Tasks
    • Workload Balancer

  4. Click the Show role allocation icon .

    The Role Allocation panel displays.

  5. Review the following information in the Role Allocation panel:

    FieldDescription
    Job RoleJob roles assigned to tasks and issues on the project. These can be job roles assigned directly to tasks and issues or job roles associated with users assigned to tasks and issues on the project.
    Planned HoursThe total number of Planned Hours from tasks and issues assigned to job roles or users associated with a job role on the project.
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