2018.2 Beta Final release activity

This page describes all changes most recently available in the Preview environment with the 2018.2 Beta Final release. The functionality was made available in the Preview environment on June 20, 2018. It will be made available in the Production environment in July 2018.

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

The following new features will release at the time of the 18.2 Production release:

Specify Mail Delivery Services for Replying to Workfront Email Notifications specify-mail-delivery-services-for-replying-to-workfront-email-notifications

Workfront administrators now have a choice of mail delivery services when configuring Workfront to allow users to make comments on objects through email replies. Workfront can be configured to use either the default email service or a POP email account.

Prior to this update, Workfront administrators were required to set up a POP account for each user.

For information on configuring a POP email account, see .

For more information on the default mail service, see .

Receive Email Notifications for Comments on Documents receive-email-notifications-for-comments-on-documents

You now receive an email notification when someone comments on a document you own. This option is enabled by default. You can use the “A comment is added on my document” notification setting to disable the email notification option.

Prior to this change, you received no notifications when someone commented on a document you own.

For more information, see Modify your own email notifications.

System-Tracked Updates No Longer Contain an Icon system-tracked-updates-no-longer-contain-an-icon

Any time the Workfront system creates an update in the Updates area on an object (such as within a project), that update no longer contains a corresponding icon.

Prior to this change, any system update also included an icon that represented the update that was made.

For more information about system updates, see System-tracked updates.

Option to Convert a Comment to a Task Was Removed option-to-convert-a-comment-to-a-task-was-removed

The option to convert a comment to a task was removed.

Previously, you could convert a comment to a task while in the Updates area on an object.

Workfront for Salesforce workfront-for-salesforce

We are releasing a new out-of-the-box integration between Salesforce and Workfront. You will be able to do the following:

This integration will be available to all the customers who have a Workfront Pro edition, or higher, and it will be free.

For more information about Workfront for Salesforce, see  Adobe Workfront for Salesforce.

Workfront for Slack Improvements workfront-for-slack-improvements

You can configure to receive Workfront notifications in your Slack Workfront channel.

The following Workfront notifications can also be configured to be delivered in Slack:

Prior to this improvement, you could not receive Workfront notifications in Slack.

For more information about Workfront notifications in Slack, see Receive Adobe Workfront notifications in Slack.

Mobile Improvements mobile-improvements

The following new features will release to the mobile stores at the time of the 18.2 Production release:

The following features have already been released to the Android Beta version of the Workfront mobile app, and they are also releasing to the public Android and iOS mobile apps. The experience for the iOS platform contains the following differences from the already released Android experience:

For more information about these features and to watch videos demonstrating them, see 2018.2 Beta 4 release activity and 2018.2 Beta 5 release activity.