View Actual Hours

Last update: Wed Jun 11 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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The hours you log on your work items in Adobe Workfront are considered Actual Hours.

Actual Hours represent the actual time that it took you to complete a task, issue, or a project.

We recommend that hours should be logged on work items, which are tasks and issues. However, as a Workfront administrator, you can allow users to also log time on projects depending on your organization’s workflows.

For more information about how to set up your system to allow users to log time on projects, see Configure timesheet and hour preferences.

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:

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Adobe Workfront plan	Any
Adobe Workfront license*	New: Standard Or Current: Work or higher
Access level configurations	View or higher access to Tasks, Projects, or Issues
Object permissions	View or higher permissions to a task, a project, or an issue For information on requesting additional access, see Request access to objects.

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

Actual Hours on tasks and issues vs. Actual Hours on projects

The Actual Hours on tasks and issues represent the number of hours logged directly on the tasks and issues.

Actual Hours from children tasks roll up to the Actual Hours on the parent task. The following formula applies for the Actual Hours on a parent task:

Parent Task Actual Hours = All Tasks Actual Hours + Parent Task Actual Hours

Actual Hours for Projects represent a total of Actual Hours from all the project’s tasks (including hours logged directly on parent tasks), all the project’s issues, and the Actual Hours logged on the project itself.

The following formula applies for the Actual Hours on a project:

Project Actual Hours = All Tasks Actual Hours + All Issues Actual Hours + All Project Actual Hours

Find Actual Hours

Finding the value for Actual Hours for an item is identical for tasks, projects, and issues.

Actual Hours in the Details section actual-hours-in-the-details-section

Finding Actual Hours in the Details section is identical for projects, tasks, and issues.

To locate Actual Hours in Task Details:

Go to a task you want to review the Actual Hours for.
In the left panel, click Task Details. The Overview section displays.
Locate the Actual Hours value in the Working time section. This is the total of hours logged on this task.

Actual Hours in the Hours section actual-hours-in-the-hours-section

Finding Actual Hours in the Hours section is identical for projects, tasks, and issues.

To locate Actual Hours in Hours section:

Go to a task you want to review the Actual Hours for.
In the left panel, click Hours. A list of hour entries logged on the task displays, with the Hours column showing the total number of Actual Hours for the task.
Ensure that the Standard view and the Project grouping are applied to this list.

Actual Hours in reports actual-hours-in-reports

When building tasks, issues, or projects reports, you can show the Actual Hours value for each task, issue, or project in the report.

To show Actual Hours in a task report:

Click the Main Menu icon in the upper-right corner of Adobe Workfront, or (if available), click the Main Menu icon in the upper-left corner, then click Reports.
On the Reports page, click New Report, then choose Task as your object.
In the bottom-right corner of the page, click Add Column.
In the Show in this column drop-down field that appears, start typing Actual Hours, then select the field when it appears in the list.
In the bottom-left corner of the page, click Save + Close to save the report.
In the Name this Report to Save It dialog box, enter a new report name, then click Apply.

Actual Hours in Resource Management tools actual-hours-in-resource-management-tools

If you want to see the progress of the work your users are doing on their assigned tasks and issues, you can view them in the following Resource Management tools:

The Utilization Report.
For information, see Overview of the Resource Utilization report.
The Resource Planner.

For information, see View Available, Planned, and Actual Hours or FTE in the Resource Planner when using the User view.

Actual Hours in the Workfront API

Most Workfront fields that store hours are saved in the Workfront database in minutes. For example, the name of the Planned Hours field of a task is workRequired in the Workfront database and it is stored in minutes.

You must account for the conversion from minutes to hours when accessing these fields in API calls or in calculated custom fields or columns.

Depending on how you are accessing Actual Hours, they can be stored in the following fields and units in the database:

In the API: With the following version of the Workfront API scheduled to release later in 2025, the valuefield for Actual Hours is actualWorkRequiredDouble which is stored in hours. The current version stored Actual Hours as actualWorkRequired which is stored in minutes.
In the Workfront interface (calculated custom field and columns): The valuefield for Actual Hours is actualWorkRequired which is stored in minutes.

For information about using Actual Hours in calculated columns or fields, see Report FAQs.

Log time

You can log time on tasks, issues, and projects in multiple ways.

For more information, see Log time.

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