2017.2 Beta 1 release activity

This page describes all changes available in the Preview environment with the 2017.2 Beta 1 release. The functionality on this page was made available in the Preview environment on May 10, 2017.

The 2017.2 Beta 1 release contains enhancements both for Workfront administrators and other users:

For Administrators:

For All Users:

Restore Documents restore-documents

Workfront administrators can now restore individual documents that were deleted within the past 30 days.

Prior to this change, Workfront administrators could restore only projects, tasks, and issues (including documents that were deleted in conjunction with the deleted project, task, or issue).

For more information, see Restore deleted items.

New Preview Banner with Release Information new-preview-banner-with-release-information

The blue banner at the top of the Preview Sandbox environment now displays the release name and version number of the Preview environment. Clicking the name of the release will take you to a Help Site article where you can find more information about the current Preview release. For more information about the Preview Sandbox Environment, see The Adobe Workfront Preview Sandbox Environment

API 7 Availability api-7-availability

API 7 is now available and includes new and updated objects.

For more information, see What’s New in API Version 7.

Subscribe to Tasks and Issues subscribe-to-tasks-and-issues

Workfront sends notifications about items you are assigned to or that you own.

Starting with the current release, if you want to follow items that are not assigned to you but might impact your work, you can subscribe to them.

You can subscribe to issues and tasks you have permissions to at least View. When a new comment is added to the issue or task that you subscribe to, you will be notified in an email about that comment.

For more information about subscribing to issues and tasks, see Subscribe to items in Adobe Workfront

Resource Scheduling Improvements resource-scheduling-improvements

The following improvements are available when scheduling resources:

View More Items on the Resource Scheduling Timeline in a Single View view-more-items-on-the-resource-scheduling-timeline-in-a-single-view

When scheduling resources for a team or for any projects for which you are the Resource Manager, tasks and issues now consume less vertical space on the scheduling timeline. This allows you to see more tasks and issues in a single view.

If you decide to show project names on each task and issue on the scheduling timeline, the vertical space of each task and issue is expanded, resulting in fewer tasks and issues displaying in a single view.

For more information about scheduling resources, see  “Get started with Resource Scheduling”.

Configure the Project Name to Display on Tasks and Issues on the Scheduling Timeline configure-the-project-name-to-display-on-tasks-and-issues-on-the-scheduling-timeline

When scheduling resources for a team or for any projects for which you are the Resource Manager, you can now configure the project name to display on each task and issue on the scheduling timeline. This allows users viewing the scheduling timeline to quickly see the name of the project where the task or issue resides.

For more information, see “Get started with Resource Scheduling”.

Configure Whether Parent Tasks Are Displayed on the Scheduling Timeline configure-whether-parent-tasks-are-displayed-on-the-scheduling-timeline

When scheduling resources for projects for which you are the Resource Manager, you can now configure whether parent tasks display on the scheduling timeline when the Summary Completion Mode option on the project is set to Manual.

Prior to this change, parent tasks always displayed on the scheduling timeline when the Summary Completion Mode on the project was set to Manual.

When the Summary Completion Mode on the project is set to Automatic, parent tasks cannot be displayed on the scheduling timeline. This experience has not changed.

For more information, see “Get started with Resource Scheduling”.

More Easily Expand or Collapse All Tasks and Issues on the Scheduling Timeline more-easily-expand-or-collapse-all-tasks-and-issues-on-the-scheduling-timeline

A new link is available that allows you to more easily collapse all tasks and issues on the scheduling timeline.

For more information, see “Get started with Resource Scheduling”.

Role and User Information Remains at the Top of the Scheduling Timeline When Scrolling role-and-user-information-remains-at-the-top-of-the-scheduling-timeline-when-scrolling

Now when scrolling down on the scheduling timeline to view additional information, the role name and user name remain at the top of the Users and Roles area on the scheduling timeline, making it easier to see which user and role the tasks and issues are associated with.

Prior to this change, the role name and user name would scroll out of the current view.

For more information about scheduling resources, see  “Get started with Resource Scheduling”.

Compare Proofs compare-proofs

You can now compare two document proofs within any single document list, such as within the Documents tab in a project, task, issue, portfolio, or within the main Documents area in the Global Navigation Bar.

The two proofs are displayed within the Review and Approval tool, and you can proof each document while comparing them in a side-by-side view.

For more information, see Compare proofs.

New Field for Resource Pools for Users and Projects new-field-for-resource-pools-for-users-and-projects

The R1.5 release introduced new functionality around Resource Planning to the Preview environment. This functionality allows you to create new Resource Pools, which are collections of users.

Now you can associate these Resource Pools with projects, as well as with users. You will now see a new field called “Resource Pools” on the project, as well as on the user object.

For more information about the new Resource Pools and how they can be associated with projects and users, see Resource pools overview

Updated Look and Feel in the Dashboard List updated-look-and-feel-in-the-dashboard-list

Now when viewing a dashboard list, the look and feel is more modern and scalable.

This functionality was previously available only for users enrolled in Early Access. This is now available for all users in the Preview environment. It will be made available to all users in the Production environment with the 2017.2 release.

For more information about dashboards, see Create a dashboard.

Removing the Endorsements Functionality in Workfront removing-the-endorsements-functionality-in-workfront

While evaluating the functionality contained in the update stream, we have identified Endorsements to be a low adoption and a low usage feature. In 2017.2, the following functionality around Endorsements will be removed from Workfront starting with the 2017.2 release (this functionality is no longer available in Preview):

The following functionality will continue to stay in the web application:

Endorsements have not been a reportable object, therefore there are no changes around reporting for this object.

Reorder Columns in Any List with Drag-and-Drop (Functionality Is Being Removed) reorder-columns-in-any-list-with-drag-and-drop-functionality-is-being-removed

The functionality for changing the order of columns in any list by dragging a column from one location and dropping it in another is being removed from Early Access in the Production environment with the 2017.2 release and will no longer be available to any users.

For more details about this functionality, see Modify column width and order.