2018.2 Beta 1 release activity

This page describes all changes most recently available in the Preview environment with the 2018.2 Beta 1 release. The functionality was made available in the Preview environment on March 22, 2018. It will be made available in the Production environment in June 2018.

For a list of all changes made in 2018.2, see 2018.2 release activity overview.

The 2018.2 Beta 1 release contains the following enhancements:

Modify Task Dates in the Gantt Chart modify-task-dates-in-the-gantt-chart

You can now drag the task bubble to change the Planned Start and Planned Completion Dates in the Gantt chart. With this change, you can apply what-if scenarios to your project without impacting the timeline.

Prior to this change, you could change task dates only in the task list or at the task level.

For more information, see Update information in the task list Gantt Chart.

Access the Project Gantt Chart from the Updates Tab access-the-project-gantt-chart-from-the-updates-tab

You can now access the new project Gantt chart from the Updates tab. When a user changes the Commit Date of a task in a way that affects the project timeline, you can view the impact in the project Gantt chart.

Prior to this change, the Project Timeline link opened the Legacy Gantt Chart.

For more information, see Commit Date overview.

For more information, see Portfolio Optimizer overview.

Various Links Re-Introduced to Documents on the Document List various-links-re-introduced-to-documents-on-the-document-list

In the 18.1 release, various links were removed from documents on the document list and moved to other areas of the interface (some as a button next to the document name and some in a drop-down menu on the button). The following links are being re-introduced below the document name with this release, and are now available on individual documents within the document list:

The following actions are not being re-introduced as links on the document within the document list:

For more information, see the following sections:

User View Improvements in the Resource Planner user-view-improvements-in-the-resource-planner

The User View of the Resource Planner now contains the following improvements:

The following functionality has been temporarily disabled in the Resource Planner:

Prior to these improvements, you have reported that the Resource Planner was slow to load and that you had noticed incongruences in the data displayed. With these improvements, these should now be eliminated.

For more information about the areas of the Resource Planner, see Resource Planner navigation overview.

New Project List Experience new-project-list-experience

A new experience is now available when viewing a list of projects. This experience includes increased performance and smoother and faster list navigation. Only the lists in the Projects tab of the Projects area of Workfront have been updated to this new experience.

For the most part, the changes are in the speed and efficiency of the list. The following visible changes have also been introduced:

The following features have been temporarily disabled in the specified lists of projects:

For more information about working in lists, see Get started with lists in Adobe Workfront.

New Look for Updates Tab new-look-for-updates-tab

The look and feel of the Updates tab has changed to be more aligned with other areas of the interface. This change applies to projects, tasks, issues, and documents.

The following table shows the updates made to the Updates tab:

Mobile Improvements mobile-improvements

The mobile app contains the following enhancements: