2017.2 Beta Final

This page describes all changes most recently available in the Preview environment with the 2017.2 release. The functionality on this page was made available in the Preview environment on June 28, 2017. It will be made available in the Production environment on July 26, 2017.

For a list of all changes made in 2017.2, see 2017.2 release activity overview.

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

For Administrators:

For All Users:

New Scheduling Area in a Project (Team Builder) new-scheduling-area-in-a-project-team-builder

The Scheduling area in a project (formerly known as Team Builder) has been redesigned with an updated and more intuitive user interface. The new Scheduling functionality now more closely matches the Resource Scheduling functionality currently available in other areas of Workfront.

Improvements include:

The following functionality is available in other areas of the tool when scheduling resources, but is not available when scheduling resources in the Team Scheduling area:

For more information about functionality available in the Team Scheduling area, see “Get started with Resource Scheduling”.

Resource Scheduling: Show Fewer Items by Default resource-scheduling-show-fewer-items-by-default

By default, a maximum of 10 work items per day are now displayed on the scheduling timeline for a given user. You can expand the list to view all tasks and issues currently assigned to that user.

This enables you to more easily browse the scheduling timeline when users are assigned many tasks and issues.

Prior to this change, all tasks and issues were always displayed for all users.

For more information about assigning tasks and issues to users on the scheduling timeline, see “Manually assign unassigned tasks and issues in the Scheduling areas”.

Resource Scheduling: Display Drop Indicator and Over-Allocation When Dragging Tasks and Issues resource-scheduling-display-drop-indicator-and-over-allocation-when-dragging-tasks-and-issues

When assigning a task or issue to a user on the scheduling timeline via drag-and-drop, the following information is now displayed prior to releasing the task or issue and completing the assignment:

Prior to these changes, no information was displayed prior to releasing the task or issue.

For more information about assigning tasks and issues to users on the scheduling timeline, see “Manually assign unassigned tasks and issues in the Scheduling areas”.

Resource Scheduling: User Allocations Are No Longer Rounded to the Nearest Half Hour resource-scheduling-user-allocations-are-no-longer-rounded-to-the-nearest-half-hour

When multiple users are assigned to a task or issue, or when a task or issue spans multiple days, Workfront attempts to distribute planned hours evenly among the assigned users and days. Hours are rounded to the nearest hundredth by default (for example, 1.33).

Previously, when you manually modified distributed hours, hours are adjusted and rounded to the nearest half hour (for example, 1.33 is rounded to 1.5).

Now, hours are no longer adjusted and rounded to the nearest half hour (for example, 1.33 remains 1.33).

API Enhancement: Access User Allocations api-enhancement-access-user-allocations

You can now access user allocation shading via the Workfront API.

Export the Utilization Report in TSV and PDF Formats export-the-utilization-report-in-tsv-and-pdf-formats

You can now export the Utilization report on a project in TSV and PDF formats, in addition to the XLSX format.

Prior to this change, you could export the Utilization report only in XLSX format.

For more information about exporting the Utilization report, see Overview of the Resource Utilization report in Overview of the Resource Utilization report.

Proof Decision Displays in the My Work Area (Workfront) proof-decision-displays-in-the-my-work-area-workfront

Now when viewing proofing approvals in the My Approvals tab in your My Work area, the proof decision is displayed in your My Work area and remains until you click the new Refresh button within Workfront or until the next time you refresh the browser page.

Prior to this change, there was no indication that a decision was already made on the proof, and the proof remained on the My Approvals tab until you refreshed the browser.

For more information, see Approving work in Approving work.

View Rich Media Proofs in Preset Resolutions (ProofHQ and Workfront) view-rich-media-proofs-in-preset-resolutions-proofhq-and-workfront

In an earlier release to the Preview environment, we introduced the ability to adjust the resolution of Rich Media proofs either by specifying a custom resolution, or by dragging the image to the desired resolution.

You can now select from preset resolution options of various phones, tablets, notebooks, and desktops.

For more information, see “Viewing a Preset Resolution” in Change interactive proof resolution in the proofing viewer.

View URL to Sub-Pages in Comments on Rich Media Proofs (ProofHQ and Workfront) view-url-to-sub-pages-in-comments-on-rich-media-proofs-proofhq-and-workfront

Now when you comment on a sub-page in a Rich Media proof, the URL to the sub-page is displayed on the comment.

Prior to this change, it was not clear which sub-page the comment was referring to.

For more information, see

Determine the Availability of the HTML5 Video proofing viewer (ProofHQ and Workfront) determine-the-availability-of-the-html5-video-proofing-viewer-proofhq-and-workfront

As the Workfront administrator in ProofHQ, you can determine whether users in your organization have access to the new HTML5 proofing viewer for video proofs.

For more information about configuring this option in Workfront, see in .

Create Custom Views Based on Existing Standard Views (ProofHQ) create-custom-views-based-on-existing-standard-views-proofhq

Now you can create a custom view based on a standard view. Columns, Sorting, and Filters options from the standard view are included in the new view by default.

Prior to this change, in order to create a custom view, you had to create the view from scratch.

For more information, see Creating a Custom View in Create and Manage Custom Views in Workfront Proof Proof.

Filter the Reporting Area (ProofHQ) filter-the-reporting-area-proofhq

By default, data displayed on the Reports tab includes all information from your ProofHQ system. You can now use filters to show only information that is relevant to your needs.

For more information, see Filtering Reports in  Run Reports in Workfront Proof.

Display Minimum and Maximum Values in Reports (ProofHQ) display-minimum-and-maximum-values-in-reports-proofhq

You can now configure whether minimum and maximum values are displayed in the graph when viewing reports.

For more information, see Viewing Reports in  Run Reports in Workfront Proof.

Support SHA-256 certificates for SAML 2.0 support-sha-256-certificates-for-saml-2-0

We now support Secure Hash Algorithm 256 (SHA-256) when configuring Workfront for SSO with SAML 2.0. Prior to this release, we supported only Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA-1).

For more information about configuring Workfront with SAML 2.0, see Configure Adobe Workfront with SAML 2.0

Type-Ahead for Mapping Attributes type-ahead-for-mapping-attributes

The Default Value field type in the Attribute Mapping dialog box has been updated to a type-ahead field. Prior to this change, the type of the Default Value field was a dropdown.

This change applies for the following SSO protocols:

SAML 1.1 does not support Attribute Mapping.

Mobile Improvements mobile-improvements

You will see the following added functionality on the mobile apps, for both the Android and the iOS platforms:

There will be a public beta program for some of these features for the Android platform.

For more information about the upcoming beta program for mobile, see the  “Betas” page.

For more information about using the Workfront mobile app, see .

Slash Added to Filter Statements for Field Values that Contain Commas slash-added-to-filter-statements-for-field-values-that-contain-commas

When building a filter in text mode and filtering for field values that contain commas, you must add a slash (“/”) before the commas separating the values, to ensure that the value is read as one filter option. This only applies for the following field types:

Prior to this change, you could not filter for fields that had options that contained commas.

For more information about this change, see Filters overview.

Multiple Billing Rates multiple-billing-rates

You can now add multiple billing rate overrides for the same job role at the project level. With this new functionality, you can define date ranges for each billing rate override. During the date range specified, a different billing rate is applied to the job role assigned to tasks on a project. Billing rates are multiplied by hours on the project to calculate revenue. Revenue calculated within the date range of a billing rate stays locked at that rate and does not update as the rates of the job roles on the project update. In the case of Actual Revenue, no hours logged before overriding the billing rate will be recalculated to reflect the current billing rate. The hours logged before the billing rate override was added to the project will be associated with the billing rate of the job role at that time.

Prior to this change, you could override the billing rate of a job role only once, and Actual Revenue would recalculate to reflect the current billing rate for all the hours logged before the billing rate was changed.

For more information about Billing Rates and Revenue, see Overview of Billing and Revenue.

For more information about overriding billing rates for job roles at the project level, see Overview of overriding Job Role Billing Rates and calculating Revenue on a project.

Resource Planner resource-planner

With this release, we are introducing the first phase of the Resource Planner, which is part of the redesign of the new Planning tab in the People area. By using the Resource Planner, you can budget the amount of hours the users in your Resource Pools are allocated in all the current projects for which you are the Resource Manager. You can see the following allocation numbers by project, job role, and by user, in the Resource Planner:

For more information about using the Resource Planner, see Resource Planner overview.

New Resource Budgeted Hour Field new-resource-budgeted-hour-field

To support the new Planning functionality and the Resource Planner, a new field has been added to the Report builder, that allows you to report on the Resource Budgeted Hours. This field captures the amount of hours that a resource is budgeted for in a project. This field is not available when budgeting resources using the Legacy Resource Planning functionality.

For more information about using Budgeted Hours in the Resource Planner, see Resource Planner overview.

In-App Notification for Proof Approval in-app-notification-for-proof-approval

When you are designated as an approver for a proof, you receive an in-app notification about the proof approval waiting for your decision. The notification displays the following text: <User name> wants you to approve this proof". If the user information is not available, the notification changes to “This proof requires your approval.”

Prior to this enhancement, the only visual indication that you were designated as an approver on a proof was a new proof request in your My Work area.

For more information about in-app notifications, see View and manage in-app notifications.

Show User Job Role in ‘Assigned To’ Area on the Details Page for Tasks and Issues show-user-job-role-in-assigned-to-area-on-the-details-page-for-tasks-and-issues

Now when viewing the details page of a task or issue, a job role is displayed below the assignee’s name in the Assigned To area. This job role represents the job role of the user that matches the job role assignment of the task or issue. If the task or issue is not assigned to a job role, the primary job role of the assigned user is displayed.

Prior to this change, only the title of the user was displayed below the user’s name in the Assigned To area.