Commit Date overview

Last update: June 3, 2025

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The Commit Date is the date a user assigned to task or an issue commits to complete the task or the issue. This differs from the Planned Completion Date of a task or issue as it’s a more realistic estimate of the completion date given only by the user in charge of the work.

For information about the Planned Completion Date, see Overview of the task Planned Completion Date.

Commit Date overview

Consider the following when working with commit dates:

Only tasks and issues have a Commit Date.
Commit dates are not automatically set by Adobe Workfront. When you create a task or issue, there is no commit date assigned to it.
If you are assigned to a task or issue, you can set the Commit Date by doing one of the following:
- Let Workfront set the Commit Date to match the existing Planned Completion Date of the task or issue by clicking Work On It, Start Issue, or Start Task on the task or issue. For information, see Replace the Work On It button with a Start button.
- Manually set the Commit Date yourself according to when you believe the task or issue will be completed. This is your estimation and commitment, as the assignee, to the Project Manager that you will have the task or issue completed by a particular date. For information, see Update Commit Dates on tasks and issues.

NOTE

You must be the Task Owner of a task to change the Commit Date. The following users can’t change the Commit Date of a task:

Project Owner
Project Sponsor
Resource Manager
System Administrator
Any other assignee on the task
Any other user with permissions to the task

For more information about the Task Owner, see Edit tasks.

Locate the Commit Date of tasks and issues

You can find the Commit Date of tasks and issues in the following areas of Workfront:

The Details page
The Summary panel after a Workfront or group administrator adds it to your layout template. For information, see Customize the Summary panel using a layout template.
The header of a task or issue after a Workfront or group administrator adds it to your layout template. For information, see Customize object headers using a layout template.

Notifications and updates triggered by changing the Commit Date

When a task or issue assignee manually changes a Commit Date to a date that is different than the Planned Completion Date set by the Project Owner, there are a number of notifications and updates that alert the Project Owner and other users of this change.

NOTE

Changes made to the Commit Date do not automatically change the planned dates, and changes made to the planned dates don’t automatically change the Commit Date.

Manually setting the Commit Date for a task or issue triggers the following changes:

The Commit Date change populates in the System Activity and the All tabs of the Update section of the task or issue.

The Commit Date change displays in the Updates area of the task or issue when the Workfront administrator enables this update in the Updates Feeds area in Setup. For information, see System-tracked updates.

If a Project Owner doesn’t want to accept the change, we recommend that they comment back to the user proposing a new date using the Comments tab in the Updates section, ask them to change the Commit Date back to the original Planned Date, or select a new date.

If a Project Owner accepts the change, they can manually adjust the Planned Completion Date to match the Commit Date offered by the user assigned to the item by editing the task or issue.

You must have access to manage the task or the issue to edit them.
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You can ask your system or group administrator to add the Commit Date field to your Summary panel or header to make it easier to update.
For more information, see the following articles:
Summary overview

Customize the Summary panel using a layout template

Customize object headers using a layout template
The Projected Completion Date of the task or issue is set to the same date because the task now has a more accurate indication of when it’s likely to be completed.

For more information, see Overview of the Projected Completion Date for projects, tasks, and issues.
The Project Owner is notified in the Notifications area that a task or issue Commit Date has changed.

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The notification that the Commit Date has changed is sent to the Project Owner only when the Workfront administrator enables displaying the Commit Date in the Updates Feeds area in Setup. For information, see System-tracked updates.

For information about the additional functionality that’s available when updating a work item, see Update work.

For information about updating Commit Dates for tasks and issues, see Update Commit Dates on tasks and issues.

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