New commenting experience
Features
The new commenting experience includes improvements and changes to the Updates section of Adobe Workfront objects.
Among the improvements included in the new commenting experience are the following:
- Improved performance and user experience
- Separation of user comments from the system activity updates
- Real-time indicator when new comments are added to an object
- Editing comments after submitting them
The following features have been removed from the new experience:
-
Comment on a system update. Comments added to the system updates in the past have been imported as read-only comments in the new System Activity tab.
-
Ability to edit Status, Condition, Commit Date, and Percent Complete while commenting on tasks and issues.
As an alternative, we recommend that you add these fields in the Summary panel of tasks and issues, to easily access them from lists, Home, Workfront Balancer, or a timesheet.
-
Ability to edit the custom form
-
The “on behalf of < user name >” information when a Workfront or group administrator logs in as another user and adds a comment on their behalf was originally removed. It has been reinstated on October 19, 2023.
-
The “Ask for approval” option when you tag people while adding a comment to a document.
-
The “Show percent complete on update status” setting when editing a user’s profile box will be removed. The functionality of updating the percent complete of a task or issue has been removed.
The following table illustrates the features that will be available in the new commenting experience as well as their availability in areas where they are supported:
Release timeline
The following information describes the timeline with key milestones for the release of the new commenting experience to the Production environment. In addition to the milestones below, we will continue to improve the commenting experience with smaller enhancements.
For information about the features released for the new commenting experience after the beta period closed, see the current release overview page. For more information, see Product releases.
The following was a planned timeline for the release of the new commenting experience:
-
With the 23.2 release (April 6, 2023):
- Launched the commenting experience Beta for issues
- Released the new commenting experience for goals (as the only experience)
-
With the 23.3 release (July 20, 2023):
- Launched the commenting experience Beta for projects, tasks, and documents.
- Released the new commenting experience for cards in the Boards area (as the only experience)
-
During the Fourth Quarter 2023 release (limited release, only available to customers that choose the fast release):
- Released the new commenting experience for templates, template tasks, programs, portfolios, teams, users, and timesheets (as the only experience)
- Updated the commenting experience Beta for projects, tasks, issues, and documents to become the default option. The “Beta” label was removed.
-
With the Fourth Quarter 2023 (23.10) release (October 26, 2023)
- Released the new commenting experience for templates, template tasks, programs, portfolios, teams, users, and timesheets (as the only experience) to all customers.
- Made the new commenting experience for projects, tasks, issues, and documents the default option.
note important IMPORTANT This concluded the Beta stage of the new commenting experience. - Made all features released for the new commenting experience starting with this date part of the current regular monthly and quarterly releases.
-
End of 2023:
- Kept the legacy commenting experience as a secondary option for the following objects: projects, tasks, issues, and documents. The new commenting experience is the default option for all users for these objects.
- Made the new commenting experience the only experience for all other objects.
-
With the Second Quarter 2024 release (April 11, 2024):
Removed the option to switch back to the legacy commenting stream and make the new commenting stream the only experience for all objects.
-
October 3, 2024:
Removed the Leave Feedback button in the Updates area.
Locate the new commenting experience
The new commenting experience is available in the following areas of Workfront:
-
In the Updates section of all objects.
For information about accessing the Updates section of Workfront objects, see Updates section overview.
-
In the Summary panel of tasks, issues, and documents in all areas where this is available (lists, timesheets, Workload Balancer, and Home).
-
In the Home area for tasks and issues.