View: reporting elements used in reports

Last update: November 6, 2024

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This view displays the View, Filter, and Grouping used to build each report in Adobe Workfront when you use it in a list of reports.

You can see the valuefields or valueexpressions used in every element of the report.

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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.

View reporting elements used in reports

  1. Go to a list of reports.

  2. From the View drop-down menu, select New View.

  3. In the Column Preview area, eliminate all columns except for one.

  4. Click the header of the remaining column, then 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:

    column.0.descriptionkey=name
column.0.link.linkproperty.0.name=ID
column.0.link.linkproperty.0.valuefield=ID
column.0.link.linkproperty.0.valueformat=string
column.0.link.lookup=link.run
column.0.link.value=val(objCode)
column.0.listsort=string(name)
column.0.namekey=name.abbr
column.0.querysort=name
column.0.valuefield=name
column.0.valueformat=HTML
column.0.width=200
column.1.descriptionkey=objecttype
column.1.listsort=nested(view).string(uiObjCode)
column.1.namekey=objecttype.abbr
column.1.querysort=uiObjCode
column.1.valuefield=uiObjCode
column.1.valueformat=objCodeMessage
column.1.width=80
column.2.descriptionkey=enteredby
column.2.listsort=nested(enteredBy).string(lastName)
column.2.namekey=enteredby.abbr
column.2.querysort=enteredBy:lastName
column.2.valuefield=enteredBy:name
column.2.valueformat=HTML
column.2.width=130
column.3.displayname=Filter definition
column.3.textmode=true
column.3.valuefield=filter:definition
column.3.valueformat=HTML
column.4.displayname=View definition
column.4.textmode=true
column.4.valuefield=view:definition
column.4.valueformat=HTML
column.5.displayname=Grouping definition
column.5.textmode=true
column.5.valuefield=groupBy:definition
column.5.valueformat=HTML

  6. Click Done > Save View.

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