21.3 Release overview

Blueprints available in Production with the 21.3 release

The blueprints functionality will be generally available with the 21.3 Production release the week of June 21, 2021.

Blueprints provides basic building blocks to help you create a work management system that grows with you. System administrators can browse the blueprints catalog and install ready-to-use project templates.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: April 22, 2021 (with the 21.2 release)

Production release: With the 21.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

New for group administrators: Create and manage statuses for a group at any level

To make it easier for all levels of an organization to manage and control their workflows independently, we've introduced the ability to create and manage statuses for subgroups.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: June 3, 2021

Production release: With the 21.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

New for administrators: Create a billing record custom form

Now you can improve how users capture billing information by creating a billing record custom form. Users can attach the custom form to a billing record, fill it out, and run reports that include the information in the form.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: May 20, 2021

Production release: With the 21.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Associate a template with a group

To help you streamline the project creation process —and to help you more easily identify and report on which groups own which project templates—we've added the ability to assign a group to a project template.

When you assign a group to a project template, all projects created from the template are automatically associated with the template's group.

Also, you can attach a group approval process to a template and its template tasks if the template is associated with your group.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: June 3, 2021

Production release: With the 21.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Easier editing of fields in the Details section

Various improvements allow you to more easily edit information in the Details section of any object. These improvements include a gray outline around a field when hovering over it indicates that it is editable, as well as the ability to edit fields by clicking them once.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: June 3, 2021

Production release: With the 21.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Consider cross-project predecessors when calculating handoff dates

With a new improvement in the way Adobe Workfront calculates handoff dates for tasks, the cross-project dependencies are now taken into account.

Previously, the handoff dates were calculated based only on the predecessors of the task from the same project.

Now, to ensure you always have an accurate handoff date for a task with a cross-project predecessor, you must recalculate the timeline of the successor task's project. After recalculating the timeline, the handoff dates of the task calculates taking into account the cross-project dependencies of the tasks.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: June 3, 2021

Production release: With the 21.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Add existing stories and issues from the Scrum board

You can now add an existing story or issue directly from the Scrum board. This makes it easier to add existing stories to your current iteration without having to go to the backlog page.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: June 3, 2021

Production release: With the 21.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Add new stories and issues from the Scrum board

You can now create a new story or issue directly from the Scrum board. This makes it easier to quickly add a new story to your current iteration.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: June 3, 2021

Production release: With the 21.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Delete story or issue from the Kanban board

You can now delete a story or issue directly from your Kanban board by clicking the More icon on a story or issue card and selecting Delete. When you delete a story or issue, it is moved to the Recycle Bin for 30 days and can be recovered only by the system administrator.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: June 3, 2021

Production release: With the 21.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Agile card header and story board updates

On Kanban and Scrum boards, various enhancements are now available, including a fixed width for story cards and board columns, the renaming of the Stories column to Parent Story, and more.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: June 3, 2021

Production release: With the 21.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Group project, task, and issue preferences

As we communicated earlier, we rolled out group-level customizations for project, task, and issue preferences in phases. Until June 24, 2021, they were available in Production for all EMEA customers and for a subset of all other customers. Now they are available to all customers.

Available on these dates:

Preview release:

July 9, 2020 (project preferences for groups)

December 3, 2020 (task and issue preferences for groups)

Production release: With the 21.3 release (was available only for a limited number of customers, available to all customers June 24, 2021)

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Allow external users to approve a document

You can now use external email addresses to assign approvers to a document in the new Workfront experience.

Previously, you could add external users by email address only in Workfront Classic.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: May 20, 2021

Production release: With the 21.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Export information from the Details section of a portfolio or program

You can now export to a .pdf file information from the Details section of portfolios and programs. Prior to this enhancement, you could export information from the Details section only from projects, tasks and issues.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: May 20, 2021

Production release: June 3, 2021

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Added Planned Completion Date timestamp in the object's header

To facilitate easy access, convenience as well as accuracy, we have added the option to select a timestamp in the Planned Completion Date of the header of projects, tasks, or issues.

Prior to this enhancement, when you updated the Planned Completion Date of an object, Workfront selected midnight as the default time. Now, you can customize the time as well as the completion date.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: May 20, 2021

Production release: With the 21.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Add a custom form to an object without editing it

We have made it easier to add a custom form that someone else will fill out—or that you will fill out later—to an object. The form no longer goes into editing mode automatically when you add it. You can simply save the empty form to the object.

Previously, when you added a custom form to an object, the page went into editing mode and you had to complete any required fields on the form before you could save it to the object. This was inconvenient when the form was meant for another user to fill out, or when you did not know yet what to put in a required field on the form.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: May 20, 2021

Production release: With the 21.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Deactivate roles no longer in use

To offer you the same experience as with users, teams, and companies, we have introduced a new feature that allows you to deactivate roles you no longer use. When you deactivate a role, it is no longer available for selection in typeahead fields for assigning and sharing objects. Deactivated roles still appear in search fields and filter options.

Tasks and issues assigned to a deactivated role as well as approval processes or routing rules continue to be assigned to these roles. You must update these objects to replace the inactive role with an active one, if they are yet to be completed.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: May 27, 2021

Production release: June 10, 2021

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Find requests by recent paths or by searching using a keyword

To help you find the right request queue faster by referring to recently logged requests, we have introduced the following improvements to finding a recently used queue:

• A list of the recent paths for which you have entered requests

• The ability to search for a request type by any keyword included in a path.

A path includes the request queue and all the topic groups and queue topics that you have selected before when submitting a request.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: June 3, 2021

Production release: With the 21.3 release

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Remove ability to create a new document or proof version in a linked folder

We removed the ability to create a new version of a document or proof within a linked folder. You can still create a new version of a linked document or proof if they are outside of a linked folder.

Previously, this option still displayed for documents and proofs in linked folders, but users were unable to create a new version of a document.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: June 3, 2021

Production release: June 3, 2021

Available in these environments:

The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront Classic

Users added to a proof automatically granted View access on a document

Users with Reviewer or Read-only selected as their proof role are automatically granted View access on the document if they had none previously.

Previously, users with the proof roles mentioned above had to request access to documents when they were added to the proof.

Home area redesign for mobile app

Various enhancements have been added to the home area in the Adobe Workfront mobile app, including: a redesigned work item widgets and a larger search box help you find what you need quickly; the navigation bar for home, virtual assistant, quick task, notifications, and user profile now "floats" over the home area for easy access; and the My Work menu scrolls horizontally and shows these items: Projects, Tasks & Issues, Requests, Approvals, and Timesheets. Up to three cards for the selected item are displayed below the menu.

Available on these dates:

Preview release: N/A

Production release: With the 21.3 release

Available in these environments:

iOS

Android

Event subscription filters

Event subscription filters are now enabled in preview environments. Event subscription filtering can be used to ensure that you receive only relevant messages. Creating filters for your subscriptions may significantly decrease the number of messages that your endpoint needs to consume.