View: show name of parent tasks as all caps

Last update: Thu Feb 20 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Topics:
Reports and Dashboards

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You can add this column to a task view to display the name of the parent tasks in all capital letters.

Column with parent task in all caps

Access requirements

Expand to view access requirements for the functionality in this article.

You must have the following access to perform the steps in this article:

Adobe Workfront plan

Any

Adobe Workfront license*

New:

Contributor to modify a filter
Standard to modify a report

Current:

Request to modify a filter
Plan to modify a report

Access level configurations

Edit access to Reports, Dashboards, Calendars to modify a report

Edit access to Filters, Views, Groupings to modify a filter

Object permissions

Manage permissions to a report

*For information, see Access requirements in Workfront documentation.

Show name of parent tasks as all caps

To build this column in a task view:

Go to a list of tasks.
From the View drop-down menu, select a view, then click the Edit icon .
Or
From the View drop-down menu, select New View.
In the Column Preview area, click the header of the column that shows the task name in the list.
Click Switch to Text Mode, then click Edit Text Mode.

Remove the text you find in the Text Mode box, and replace it with the following code:

linkedname=direct
namekey=name
querysort=name
styledef.case.0.comparison.icon=false
styledef.case.0.comparison.leftmethod=numberOfChildren
styledef.case.0.comparison.lefttext=numberOfChildren
styledef.case.0.comparison.operator=gt
styledef.case.0.comparison.operatortype=int
styledef.case.0.comparison.righttext=0
styledef.case.0.comparison.trueproperty.0.name=fontstyle
styledef.case.0.comparison.trueproperty.0.value=bold
valueexpression=IF({numberOfChildren}>"0",UPPER({name}),{name})
valueformat=HTML

Click Done, then click Save View.

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