View: display the parent-child relationship in a task by indenting the tasks

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

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You can maintain the distinction of parent - child relationships in an exported task list by adding a custom view to the task list and ensuring this view is selected before you export the list.

Parent child indentation

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

Current:

Request to modify a view
Plan to modify a report

New:

Contributor to modify a view
Standard 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 view

Object permissions

Manage permissions to a report

For more detail about the information in this table, see Access requirements in Workfront documentation.

Display the parent-child relationship in a task by indenting the tasks

Go to the project with the task list you’d like to export.
Click the View drop-down menu, and select New View.
Click in the Task Name column header.
Select Switch to Text Mode in the top-right corner.
Click Edit Text Mode and remove all existing text.

Paste the following text:

displayname=
linkedname=direct
namekey=name
querysort=name
textmode=true
valueexpression=IF({indent}<1,{name},IF({indent}<2,CONCAT(" - ",{name}),IF({indent}<3,CONCAT(" - - ",{name}),IF({indent}<4,CONCAT(" - - - ",{name}),CONCAT(" - - - - ",{name})))))
valueformat=HTML

Click Done > Save View.

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