View: remove link to an object in a column

Last update: February 20, 2025

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Some objects that you display in a view link to the Details page of the object, by default. For example, the column that displays the Name of a project is a link to the project; the column that displays the Name of a user is a link to the user’s profile page.

You can remove this link using text mode in columns that display in all views.

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 planAny
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 permissionsManage permissions to a report

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

  1. Go to a list of tasks.

  2. From the View drop-down menu, click New View to create a new view.

    Or

    Click the Edit icon Edit icon

    to edit an existing view, then select the view.

  3. Click Add Column to add a new column.

    Or

    Click an existing column with a link to an object.

  4. Click Switch to Text Mode > Edit Text Mode.

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

    displayname=Task Name
linkedname=direct
namekey=name
querysort=name
textmode=true
valueexpression={name}
valueformat=Compound
    TIP
    You can use similar code for other objects by doing adjusting the following:

    • Replace the valuefield line of the code with valueexpression and keep the same name included in curly brackets after the equal sign.

    • Eliminate all the lines that start with link. from the original text of the column. For example, eliminate all the following lines:

      

link.linkproperty.0.name=ID

link.linkproperty.0.valuefield=ID

link.linkproperty.0.valueformat=string

link.lookup=link.view

link.value=val(objCode)

  6. Click Done, then Save View.