2018.1 Beta 2 release activity

This page describes all changes most recently available in the Preview environment with the 2018.1 Beta 2 release. The functionality on this page was made available in the Preview environment on December 14, 2017. It will be made available in the Production environment in March, 2018.

For a list of all changes made in 2018.1, see  2018.1 release activity overview.

The 2018.1 Beta 2 release contains enhancements for both for Workfront administrators and other users:

For Administrators

For All Users

Group Administration for Users and Layout Templates group-administration-for-users-and-layout-templates

You can now designate group administrators in Workfront. The Group Owner field has been renamed to group administrator, and users who are designated as group administrators have additional permissions to manage users and layout templates for the groups they manage.

User Management by group administrator user-management-by-group-administrator

We are introducing the new concept of group administrator. To support this, the Group Owner field has been renamed to group administrator and the users who are designated as group administrators have additional permissions to manage users and the groups.

In addition to the permissions that the Group Owner previously had to manage users, the group administrator now has the following additional access when managing users within the groups where they are set as a group administrator:

Prior to this change, only the Workfront administrator could perform these functions.

For more information about group administrators, see the “Understanding group administrators” section in Create a group.

Layout Template Management by group administrators layout-template-management-by-group-administrators

We are introducing the new concept of Group with Administration Access which you can associate with a Layout Template.

The user designated as a group administrator on this group has access to manage that Layout Template and create new Layout Templates where the groups they manage are the administrative groups of the templates.

Prior to this change, only the Workfront administrator could create Layout Templates.

For more information about creating Layout Templates, see see “Creating and Managing Layout Templates.”

System-Wide Widescreen Display system-wide-widescreen-display

When you display any page in Workfront, the entire browser window is now filled automatically and it adjusts to your screen size.

Prior to this change, only the pages associated with the following objects were displayed in widescreen:

Resize Timeline Snapshot on the Gantt Chart resize-timeline-snapshot-on-the-gantt-chart

You can now expand the timeline snapshot to show the entire project in the Gantt chart.

Prior to this enhancement, you could select a specific point on the timeline snapshot to navigate to it in the Gantt chart.

For more information about configuring how information displays on the Gantt chart, see Configure how information displays on the Gantt Chart.

Interactive Resource Planner in the Business Case interactive-resource-planner-in-the-business-case

As a Resource Manager, you can now add Resource Pools in the Resource Budgeting section of the Business Case. You can also budget your project resources using the project-level Resource Planner. Budgeting your resources for a project generates the Budgeted Labor Cost of the project.

Prior to this change, you could view Resource Budgeting information in the Business Case if the project had been budgeted for resources in the global Resource Planner.

For more information about completing budgeting project resources in the Business Case, see Budget resources in the Business Case.

Visualization in the Resource Planner - User Allocation Chart visualization-in-the-resource-planner-user-allocation-chart

You can now display the overall Planned Allocation of all users against their availability in a chart in the Resource Planner. The chart is available when you select View by User in the Resource Planner.

The chart displays the following information:

Prior to this change, you could view the allocation and availability of individual users only in table format.

For more information about the user allocation chart in the Resource Planner, see Resource Planner overview.

Improvements in the Home Area improvements-in-the-home-area

Various improvements are now available in the Home area, including:

For more information about using the new Home area, as well as information describing differences in functionality between My Work and Home, see Use the Home area.

New proofing viewer Improvements  new-proofing-viewer-improvements

Improved Layout and Design improved-layout-and-design

The proofing viewer has an updated look and feel. The  following areas of the proofing viewer were updated:

Search Comments by Comment Number search-comments-by-comment-number

Now when you search the comment list in the proofing viewer, you can enter the number of the comment in the search field. The comment list is then filtered to display the comment you searched for.

For more information, see in .

Option to Edit Comment next to the Markup Indicator option-to-edit-comment-next-to-the-markup-indicator

You can now more easily edit an existing comment. After clicking a comment indicator on the proof, an edit icon is displayed next to the balloon.

Prior to this change, you had to click the edit icon in the Comment area.

For more information, see .

Mark All Comments as Read mark-all-comments-as-read

When viewing a document in the proofing viewer, you can now mark all comments as Read.

Left Menu Improvements left-menu-improvements

The menu on the left side of the proofing viewer contains the following improvements: