Enhancements for all users

The 2020.3 release contains the following enhancements for all users:

Workfront Goals

NOTE
Your organization must have the following to use the functionality described in this article:
  • A Pro or higher Adobe Workfront plan.

  • An Adobe Workfront Goals license in addition to a Workfront license.

    Contact your Workfront account manager to learn about a Workfront Goals license.

    Workfront Goals is available only in the new Adobe Workfront experience.

For additional information about access to Workfront Goals, see Requirements to use Workfront Goals.
FeatureRelease dates and environments

Workfront Goals with the 20.3 release - August 14, 2020

With Workfront Goals, you can align strategy, goals, and work to drive execution across the organization and deliver measurable business outcomes. Define what you're going to accomplish and why it's important.

Beta Preview release: N/A

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Scenario Planner

NOTE

Access requirements>

You must have the following:
Workfront plan*Business or higher
License type*Review or higher. For more information, see Adobe Workfront licenses overview.
Product

Workfront Scenario Planner

For information about the Workfront Scenario Planner, see The Scenario Planner overview.

Access level*

View access or higher to the Scenario Planner

Note: If you still don't have access, ask your Workfront administrator if they set additional restrictions in your access level. For information on how a Workfront administrator can change your access level, see Create or modify custom access levels.

Object permissions

View permissions or higher for a plan

For information on requesting additional access to a plan, see Request access to a plan in the Scenario Planner.

FeatureRelease dates and environments

Workfront Scenario Planner with the 20.3 release - August 14, 2020

With Scenario Planner, create and compare multiple what-if scenarios to choose the best path forward. And when your priorities change, iteratively re-plan without impacting in-progress work.

Beta Preview release: N/A

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Analytics enhancements

FeatureRelease dates and environments

Enhanced analytics is here!

Enhanced analytics is now available in Workfront. This feature gives you a high-level overview of your work with visualizations that show you what happened on a project, which projects are receiving the most focus, and much more!

Beta Preview release: July 13, 2020

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Note: Available only to customers with Business or Enterprise plans in clusters 1-5.

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Agile enhancements

FeatureRelease dates and environments

Choose how long cards stay on the Kanban board

Now, you can choose how long Completed cards stay on the Kanban board.

Previously, cards dropped off the Kanban board after 14 days.

Beta Preview release: June 17, 2020

Production release: July 2, 2020

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Agile boards load 50 work items at a time

To increase the speed and performance of the agile tools, up to 50 cards now load in various locations. If there are more than 50 work items on an agile board, a button appears at the bottom of the board or backlog, allowing you to load additional work items.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: June 19, 2020

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Resource Management enhancements

FeatureRelease dates and environments

Include hours from issues in the Assigned Work area of the Workload Balancer

To allow you to see a complete picture of all your people's workloads, we have introduced a setting that allows you to include hours from issues in the Assigned Work area of the Workload Balancer.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: June 19, 2020

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Adjust allocations for non-working days in the Workload Balancer

You can adjust allocations for your resources for non-working days using the Workload Balancer.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: July 2 -September 22 (in a phased rollout)

Production release: July 2 - 21, 2020 (in a phased rollout)

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Variable filters available in the Workload Balancer

To improve your experience as well as to give you more flexibility when you share information, we have now implemented variable filters for the Workload Balancer.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: June 5, 2020

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

New sorting for projects in the Workload Balancer

The Workload Balancer now sorts the projects based first on the earliest Planned Start Date and secondly the latest Planned Completion Date of the tasks in the project which occur during the timeframe the user displays on the screen. This allows you to organize work in a tree-like hierarchy which helps you more easily identify work for a day.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: June 5, 2020

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Display actual work progress in the Workload Balancer

To give you an accurate perspective of the progress of your workload, we have introduced a new setting in the Workload Balancer that shows the timeline of tasks and issues according to their Projected Dates. You can enable the Show Projected Dates setting to view the projected timeline of the work item in addition to the planned timeline.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: June 2, 2020

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Workload Balancer features previously communicated as releasing with the 20.2 release

Several features were originally released to the Preview environment as part of the 20.2 release and were later removed. These features are now being released to Preview and Production in a phased roll-out.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: With the 20.2 release

Production release: With the 20.3 release in a phased roll-out

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Project Management enhancements

FeatureRelease dates and environments

Custom field formatting in lists

Now, when the system administrator creates custom forms fields that are configured for formatting, you can format text in those fields where you use them the most: in lists throughout Workfront. Instead of going into the Details area to format text in the custom form, you can click a field in a list and apply Bold, Italics, and Underline to text there.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: July 2, 2020

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic (Available for some lists, but not supported)

Updated look and feel of several global headers

The global areas of Projects, Portfolios, Programs and Templates now have an updated header that makes better use of the space on the screen. This update provides more space for the information you work with that you need to focus on.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: June 19, 2020

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

New Edit Project box

As part of updating the look and feel of the new Workfront experience, we have redesigned the Edit project box. You can access the new Edit Project box from an individual project or when editing a single project from a list.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: June 19, 2020

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

New Summary panel and Updates improvements for the documents list

The new Summary panel to the right of the documents list is now available with an enhanced design in the new Workfront experience. This panel provides the same actions and information available in the panel on the right when you select a document in Workfront Classic, including document details, updates, Custom Forms, approvals, and document versions.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: June 2, 2020

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Improvements in Document Details

Look for various improvements in the Document Details page, including new version options moved to a drop-down menu, larger preview thumbnails, and more.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: June 2, 2020

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Proof enhancements

FeatureRelease dates and environments

Improved visibility between the Updates tab and Proof comments

Various improvements are available in the documents area, including when a proof comment displays in the Update tab, a new Reply in Proof button appears allowing you to go into the proofing viewer to reply.

Also, when a proof comment is tagged with an action inside the proofing viewer, the action displays in the Update tab.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: July 13, 2020

Production release: October 9, 2020 (Originally planned with the 20.3 release)

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Update proofing custom fields in Document Details

To streamline the proofing process, you can now see and edit custom fields set up in Workfront Proof on the Document Details page in Workfront if you're included on the proof workflow.

Previously, you could only view custom fields in the proofing viewer.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: July 2, 2020

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

New look for the Document toolbar

The toolbar in the Document area now has the same look and feel as the toolbar for projects, tasks, and issues in the new Workfront experience.

In addition, the New Version option is now under the Add new drop-down menu in both the new Workfront experience and Classic.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: July 2, 2020

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Create an advanced proof from the document list

To make it easier to set up a workflow when turning an existing document in a proof, use the new Create Proof drop-down menu to configure the proof workflow from the document list.

Previously, you had to generate the proof, then go into the Proofing Workflow area to set up the workflow.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: July 2, 2020

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Integration and mobile enhancements

FeatureRelease dates and environments

Introducing Workfront for MobileIron New!

Workfront has partnered with MobileIron, a Mobile Device Management (MDM) platform, to provide organizations a more secure and controlled mobile experience.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: N/A

Production release: August 21, 2020

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Zoom integration in the Updates area

Make your video meetings a part of what you do in Workfront by starting Zoom meetings from the Updates area. Click the Zoom icon to insert a meeting URL into a comment and tag co-workers to notify them about the meeting. To join, they can simply click the link.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: July 20, 2020

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

New mobile Virtual Assistant

The new virtual assistant for the Workfront mobile app is coming to both Android and iOS with this release.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: June 1, 2020

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Other enhancements

FeatureRelease dates and environments

Share a calendar with a private link

To ease the burden of sharing calendars in Workfront, you can share a private link that takes users directly to the calendar. The calendar must be shared with the user, and they have to log in to view it.

Previously, you could share a public URL that did not require a log in to view.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: July 2, 2020

Production release: July 16, 2020

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

New Drafts area when creating requests

To give you more flexibility when working with requests, Workfront now automatically saves every request you create as a draft in the new Drafts area. If you don't have all the information needed to complete the new request, you can leave it as a draft, come back to it and finish it later. Workfront saves one request per queue topic in the new Drafts area. The draft requests can be saved for as long as you need them until you are ready to complete and submit them. You can also remove or reposition the Drafts area in the left panel using a Layout Template.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: July 2, 2020

Production release: With the 20.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Expand or collapse items on the timesheet

To help you easily manage timesheets with several items, you can now expand or collapse all items with the click of a button.

Previously, you had to click on each item individually.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: July 2, 2020

Production release: July 16, 2020

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Ignore Actual Dates in Workfront Calendars

To give you more control over how objects display in Calendar Reports, you can opt to ignore actual dates even when they're available.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: June 3, 2020

Production release: June 18, 2020

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Use custom date fields in calendar reports

To help you better visualize and manage your daily work with calendars, custom date fields are now available as a date option.

Previously, you could manage your calendar only with projected, planned when actual dates were not available.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: May 29, 2020

Production release: June 18, 2020

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Email changes

All email from Workfront will come from notifications@my.workfront.com, and system Administrators will no longer have the ability to configure a custom POP email server for incoming email replies to notifications.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: July 9, 2020

Production release: Beginning with the 20.3 release in a phased rollout and available to all customers by September 1, 2020.

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) now included on outgoing Workfront emails

An email authentication technique (DKIM) will be included on all outgoing emails. This DKIM signature is not visible to the end-user but allows validation on a server level and reinforces our existing authentication framework.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: July 29, 2020

Production release: Beginning with the 20.3 release in a phased rollout and available to all customers by September 1, 2020.

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Base64 encoding for Event Subscriptions

The base64Encoding field is an optional field that is used to enable Base64 encoding of event subscription payloads. If a request is made using the base64Encoding field set to true, then the newState and oldState objects in the payload are delivered as Base64 encoding strings. This feature can be useful if your network is configured in such a way that it will not allow special characters in Event Subscriptions.

Available on these dates:

Beta Preview release: July 8, 2020

Production release: July 10, 2020

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

API enhancements

API version 11 released with the 2020.1 release. For information about what’s new and updated, see What’s new in API version 11

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For more information about API versions, see API versioning and support schedule

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Workfront Maintenance Updates

For information about the maintenance updates made during the 20.3 release, see Workfront Maintenance Updates.

Announcements

Change in Preview release cadence

Starting on May 20, 2020, Workfront began to make functionality available in the Preview environment on a weekly basis. Prior to this change, functionality was typically released to the Preview environment every two weeks.

For more information, see Change in Workfront preview release cadence FAQ

Allowlist of additional domains required for accessing Workfront

If your organization uses a firewall, you must add the following additional domains to your allowlist in order to ensure uninterrupted access to Workfront:

  • event.split.io
  • sdk.split.io

For more information, see Configure your firewall’s allowlist.

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20.3 Release Webinar

View the 20.3 Product Release Webinar here.

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