2020.1 release overview

Limit users' ability to edit Filter, View, and Grouping controls on lists and reports

Now you can use an access level to limit the ability that users have to edit the Filter, View, and Grouping controls on lists and reports. This is useful if you have custom fields that you want visible only to users at a certain access level.

Beta Preview release: January 17, 2020

Production release: With the 2020.1 release

New saving mode when making changes in a task list: the Timeline Planning mode

Depending on the size and complexity of your project, updating the task list, especially dates and durations, can take longer than desired. To make edits much faster, we have introduced a new saving option when editing tasks in a list called Timeline Planning mode. Prior to this mode, you could save the changes you made to your task lists either automatically with Autosave, or manually, when disabling the Autosave move.

Beta Preview release: March 14, 2020

Production release: With the 2020.1 release

Improved navigation of all new lists with clear grouping differentiation

You can now see more clearly the differentiation between several layers of groupings in lists with a new color scheme. The grouping results are also outlined more clearly in a separate frame. This change has been applied to all the new lists.

Beta Preview release: February 27, 2020

Production release: With the 2020.1 release

Highlight matching items in lists when using the quick filters

Finding items in lists is now faster: when you search for an item using quick filters the matching fields are highlighted in yellow in the results so you can clearly see what field value matches your keyword. The fields are highlighted in yellow in standalone fields, as well as shared columns and complex fields. Some examples of complex fields are Assignments, Assignments and Status, Percent Complete, Predecessors, Approvers and Status, Resource Managers, Categories, Condition, Condition Update etc.

Beta Preview release: February 27, 2020

Production release: With the 2020.1 release

New option for indicating how to display grouping results in lists Removed from release

To give you more control over how you display your list results, you can now indicate whether you want the results in the grouping to be expanded or collapsed by default when displaying the list or report. This option is available within the grouping builder in a list or report.

Beta Preview release: January 17, 2020

Production release: N/A

Display column headers of lists and reports in sentence case

In a previous release, we made a change that displayed all column headers in all capital letters when viewing a list or report. Based on the feedback we have received, we are now reverting this change. With this change, all column headers now display in sentence case.

Beta Preview release: January 17, 2020

Production release: With the 2020.1 release

New More menu in the Updates area

Use the More menu on an update to copy the body text of an update, copy the direct link to an update, or delete the update.

Beta Preview release: January 8, 2020

Production release: January 8, 2020

New progress bar in the Updates area

The percent complete progress bar in the updates area has a new look. Click and drag to update the percent, or double-click to manually input the number.

Beta Preview release: January 8, 2020

Production release: January 8, 2020

Updated look and feel of new lists (Some list updates were removed from the release)

Projects, Tasks, and Hours lists now have an updated look and feel.

When these features were originally released to Preview, they were available for all reports and lists except the lists in the Setup and Reports areas. These features are now available only for Projects, Tasks, and Hours lists.

Beta Preview release: December 20, 2019

Planned Production release: With the 2020.1 release

Show daily Planned Hours for tasks, and inaccessible items in the Unassigned Work area of the Workload Balancer

To help you understand how individual projects, tasks, or inaccessible items will affect the workload of your users, the "Show allocations" setting is now managing what information displays in the Unassigned Work area of the Workload Balancer.

Beta Preview release: March 14, 2020

Production release: TBD (This feature will be available in the Production environment sometime after the 2020.1 release.)

Show daily Planned Hours for projects, tasks, and inaccessible items in the Assigned Work area of the Workload Balancer

To help you understand how individual projects, tasks, or inaccessible items contribute to the workload of your users and to be able to make correct reassignment decisions in the Workload Balancer, we have introduced a setting that allows you to view the hourly distribution for individual projects, tasks and inaccessible items.

Beta Preview release: February 27, 2020

Production release: With the 2020.1 release

Adjust timeline duration in the Workload Balancer

You now have the flexibility to select how many weeks you display in the Workload Balancer: you can select from 2, 4, or 6 weeks. Previously, the number of weeks was set to 4 by default.

Beta Preview release: February 27, 2020

Production release: With the 2020.1 release

Improved navigation in the Workload Balancer

Now, you can navigate back and forth in the Workload Balancer one time period at a time. Prior to this enhancement when you clicked the back and forward icons, the timeframe shifted by four time periods at a time.

Beta Preview release: January 31, 2020

Production release: With the 2020.1 release

The Display Actual Hours setting removed from the Resource Planner

To make displaying Actual Hours in the Resource Planner easier, we have removed the Display Actual Hours setting from the Resource Planner.

Beta Preview release: January 17, 2020

Production release: With the 2020.1 release

More easily see who is tagged in an update

It's now easier to see which users are tagged in an update. Tagged users name's display in blue and link to the user profile.

Tagged users are also listed under the comment box.

Beta Preview release: March 14, 2020

Production release: March 26, 2020

Include and identify quoted text in an update comment or reply

As you type a comment, you can mark part of your comment as quoted text in order to distinguish it from your own comment. Use the Block Quote button in the HTML editor.

Beta Preview release: February 27, 2020

Production release: March 26, 2020

Quote a previous comment in an update comment or reply

When you comment in an update thread, you can quickly include text from a previous comment in the thread. Look for the Quote Reply option in the More menu next to the comment you want to quote.

Beta Preview release: March 14, 2020

Production release: March 26, 2020

Additional risks information

To help you better understand the risks of your projects, you can now see who and when a risk was entered and when it was updated on a project. You can access this information in a risk view and through the public Workfront API. These fields will be available with API version 11, which releases with the 2020.1 Production.

Beta Preview release: February 14, 2020

Production release: With the 2020.1 release

Additional fields added to Baselines and Baseline Tasks

To help you better understand the financial progress of your projects, you can now include additional cost and revenue information in a Baseline or a Baseline Task report. The additional financial information is not added to the baselines that you have currently saved, but it is added for new baselines.

Beta Preview release: January 31, 2020

Production release: With the 2020.1 release

Issues in "Closed-Pending Approval" status are considered incomplete

The way Workfront handles issues in a "Complete-Pending Approval" status has been changed. Now, these issues are perceived as Open, and the project cannot be marked as Complete until the approval is resolved.

Beta Preview release: December 6, 2019

Planned Production release: With the 2020.1 release

Updates to the measurement tool in the proofing viewer

To help meet the needs of users in compliance and regulated industries where strict guidelines apply, various improvements are now available in the proofing viewer related to the measurement tool.

Beta Preview release: March 6, 2020

Production release: With the 2020.1 release

Improved setting labels in Automated Workflow areas

Now, when you are setting stage deadline and activation settings for an Automated Workflow, the labels in the user interface are easier to understand.

Also, names for the stage settings are now consistent from one Automated Workflow activity to another.

Beta Preview release: January 17, 2020

Production release: With the 2020.1 release

Add a timezone to an Automated Workflow template

Now, when you are creating or modifying an Automated Workflow template for your users' proofs, you can specify the timezone of the users who will be creating or working on the proof.

Beta Preview release: December 6, 2019

Planned Production release: With the 2020.1 release

Document icon removed from the Proofing viewer

We removed the document icon inline with the proof name in the proofing viewer. This icon used to take you to the document details.

Now, you can click the name of the proof to go to the document details page.

This icon was removed because of a change in the new Workfront experience: link to breadcrumbs release note.

Beta Preview release: January 30, 2020

Planned Production release: With the 2020.1 release

Seamless experience between the mobile app and web

To make your experience more consistent when using Workfront on both the mobile app and the web, any customization of the left panel secondary navigation in the new or existing layout templates is automatically reflected in the mobile app.

Beta Preview release: N/A

Production release: With the 2020.1 release

Like updates on the mobile app

Use the new Like button on the Updates tab to like a update

Beta Preview release: N/A

Production release: With the 2020.1 release

Change required for adding proofs to the allowlist

The proofing domain is changing from proofhq.com to workfront.com.

Beta Preview release: March 10, 2020

Production release: With the 2020.1 release (Removed from release)

The Flash Portfolio Optimizer has been removed

We have removed the ability to switch between the new and the legacy (based on FlashFlash-based) Portfolio Optimizer from the Workfront Classic environment for all customers. The Legacy Portfolio Optimizer is a deprecated feature and the new tools provide the same functionality today.

Beta Preview release: February 27, 2020

Production release: With the 2020.1 release

Workfront cookie behavior updated to maintain compatibility with Chrome

To maintain compatibility with an upcoming Google Chrome update (Chrome v80), we've updated the Workfront platform to ensure that cookies are appropriately sent with requests.

This Chrome update changes the default value of the SameSite cookie attribute. If you want to test how your Workfront instance will behave after the Google Chrome update, adjust the flags in Chrome and enable the following options:

• "SameSite by default cookies"
• "Cookies without SameSite must be secure"

Beta Preview release: January 29, 2020

Production release: January 30, 2020

Workfront comments sync to Jira

The Workfront for Jira integration now syncs your Workfront comments to Jira's native comment stream.

For more information, see Configure Adobe Workfront for Jira.

Beta Preview release: December 20, 2019

Production release: December 20, 2019