View: predecessor details

Last update: November 5, 2024

Topics:
Reports and Dashboards

CREATED FOR:

User

This task view shows details of the predecessors of the tasks using a collection view. In a collection view, you can display information about objects that are in a “one-to-many” relationship. In this case, each task (one) can have multiple predecessors (many). The view displays the name of the tasks, as well as its Predecessors’ Names, Predecessors’ Project Names, Predecessors’ Planned Completion Dates, and Predecessors’ Statuses.

For information about referencing collections in reports, see Reference collections in a report.

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.

View predecessor details

Go to a list of tasks.
From the View drop-down menu, select New View.
In the Column Preview area, eliminate all columns except for one.
Click the header of the remaining column and click Switch to Text Mode > Edit Text Mode.

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

column.0.displayname=
column.0.linkedname=direct
column.0.namekey=name
column.0.querysort=name
column.0.valuefield=name
column.0.valueformat=HTML
column.1.displayname=Predecessors Numbers & Names
column.1.listdelimiter=
column.1.listmethod=nested(predecessors).lists
column.1.textmode=true
column.1.type=iterate
column.1.valueexpression=CONCAT({predecessor}.{taskNumber},' - ',{predecessor}.{name})
column.1.valueformat=HTML
column.2.displayname=Predecessors Project Names
column.2.listdelimiter=
column.2.listmethod=nested(predecessors).lists
column.2.textmode=true
column.2.type=iterate
column.2.valueexpression={predecessor}.{project}.{name}
column.2.valueformat=HTML
column.3.displayname=Predecessors Completion Dates
column.3.listdelimiter=
column.3.listmethod=nested(predecessors).lists
column.3.textmode=true
column.3.type=iterate
column.3.valueexpression={predecessor}.{plannedCompletionDate}
column.3.valueformat=HTML
column.4.displayname=Predecessors Status
column.4.listdelimiter=
column.4.listmethod=nested(predecessors).lists
column.4.textmode=true
column.4.type=iterate
column.4.valueexpression={predecessor}.{status}
column.4.valueformat=HTML

Click Done > Save View.