22.3 Release overview

Integrate Adobe Workfront with JumpSeat

You now can integrate JumpSeat with Workfront to create custom, in-product guidance for your users. You must have an Adobe Workfront enterprise license and an active JumpSeat subscription to enable the integration.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: June 2, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Use unlocked statuses in an approval processes

This feature was removed from the 22.3 Production release. This feature is planned to release to Production at a future time.

To give you more control over the approval processes and statuses in your system, we've made it possible to create an approval process based on an unlocked system status. Moreover, you can now unlock any status that is already used in an approval process. Previously, a system status used in an approval process had to be locked. This made it available for all groups—without the possibility of removing or renaming it—so group administrators couldn't streamline their group's list of statuses to fit their specific needs.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: June 2, 2022

• Production release: September 15, 2022

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Proof default settings moved to Workfront

You can now edit the following proof settings inside the Workfront Setup Area:

• Proof default settings

• Proof decision settings

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: June 1, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Add a PDF file to a custom form

We are continuing to help you make custom forms more visual and informative with new asset widgets you can add, such as images and videos. Now you can add a link to a PDF file to a custom form. When the form is attached to an object, users who work with the object can view and interact with the PDF from within the form.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: June 2, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Custom form field calculation editor displays error information(Temporarily unavailable)

Editing calculations for custom fields is now easier with helpful error information indicated directly in the calculation. While you are creating a calculated field in a custom form, errors are highlighted in pink. When you hover over the highlighted portion, a tooltip displays to describe what the problem is.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: June 9, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Project header customization

As a Workfront or group administrator, you can now customize the fields that display in the header of a project when you use a Layout Template.

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

• Preview release: June 2, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

Control creating a blank project

As a system or a group administrator, you can now control whether users can create blank projects, without using a template. We have introduced a new setting in the Project Preferences area of Setup that allows you to disable creating blank projects in the following areas:

• From the New Project option in a list of projects

• When converting an issue to a project from the issue page

The new setting is "Allow users to create projects without using a template" and it is enabled by default.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: May 19, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Deactivate a group from the Groups page

Recently, we added the ability to deactivate and reactivate groups. To make that action quicker and easier, we have added it to a group's page. Now, after you click a group's name to go to its page, you can select the More menu next to the group's name, then select Deactivate or Reactivate.

Previously, you could deactivate or reactivate a group only by using the Is active check box on its Details page.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: April 14, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Add videos to custom forms

Now you can provide a new mode of information, visual interest, and creativity to a custom form by adding a video. When the form is attached to an object, users who work with the object can play the video any time.

Previously, you could add only text-based fields and images to a custom form.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: April 14, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Out-of-office work delegation

Now, you can temporarily delegate the tasks and issues assigned to you to other users when you plan to be out of the office for a brief period of time. This ensures that your absence does not become a roadblock to work being completed.

Prior to this enhancement, you could only delegate approvals.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: June 9, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

New experience when converting an issue to a task

To make your use of Workfront consistent with the new Workfront experience, we have redesigned the interface for converting an issue to a task.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: June 9, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

New experience when converting an issue to a project without a template

To make your use of Workfront consistent with the new Workfront experience, we have redesigned the interface for converting an issue to a project without using a template.

In addition to an updated user interface that matches the rest of the new Workfront experience, we have also added the ability to convert an issue to blank projects from a list or a report.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: June 2, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Smart tagging in the update stream

We have improved tagging users in the update stream when you create a new update or reply to an existing one. Now, when you tag a user to include them in an update, in addition to their name and avatar, we also display their Primary Role and their email. This helps distinguish between multiple users with similar or identical names.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: May 19, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

New syntax for calculations in custom fields

To prepare for future enhancements that will help you add calculations to custom forms, we have standardized the syntax for referenced fields that you add to a calculation. It's easy to use this new syntax because the system enters it for you when you start typing the name of a field and then select it.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: May 5, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Keep accurate information when two users with a common role are involved in an approval process

To ensure accuracy of your data for approving work, we have made a change in the way approval information is recorded on an item when a multi-role approval process is associated with the item.

Some approval processes require approval from two different roles, and two different approvers might have one of those roles in common. Now when this happens, after the approval decisions are made, Workfront records each approver and their respective role associated with the approval process.

Prior to this change, both approvals were recorded for the second user because they shared one of the approval roles with the first approver. In this case, the second approver was overwriting the first approver's information.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: April 21, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

• Adobe Workfront Classic (Workfront Classic was discontinued in March 2022, followed shortly by the end-of-life date for Workfront Classic in July 2022.)

New experience when converting an issue to a project using a template at the issue level

To make your use of Workfront consistent with the new Workfront experience, we have redesigned the interface for converting an issue to a project when using a template when you convert it from the issue page.

You can now more easily access your list of favorites immediately after selecting to convert the issue.

The redesigned interface matches the experience when creating a project from a template which we have also updated recently.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: December 8, 2021

• Production release: Phased rollout starting April 28, 2022 This feature was temporarily removed from the Production environment on March 4, 2022. It was later released in a phased roll-out beginning April 28, 2022. The roll-out was completed on May 5, 2022. This is now available in Preview and Production for all customers.

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Convert issues to projects using a template from lists, reports, and dashboards

To increase the efficiency of your work and make it easier for you to convert issues in a fast-paced environment, we have added the ability to convert an issue to a project using a template from a list, report, or a dashboard.

Prior to this enhancement, this functionality existed only when you converted the issue from the issue page.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: December 8, 2021

• Production release: Phased rollout starting April 28, 2022 This feature was temporarily removed from the Production environment on March 4, 2022. It was later released in a phased roll-out beginning April 28, 2022. The roll-out was completed on May 5, 2022. This is now available in Preview and Production for all customers.

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Allocation hours will no longer be removed when making changes to assignments

To ensure the accuracy of your data, we have made a change to preserve allocation hours and to keep task Planned Hours unchanged when making changes to assignments on the task.

The following changes have been made to tasks with a Simple Duration Type:

• Individual assignment allocations are preserved when replacing users and roles.

• Individual assignment allocations are preserved on the role when removing the user.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: February 10, 2022

• Production release: April 21, 2022

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

• Adobe Workfront Classic (Workfront Classic was discontinued in March 2022, followed shortly by the end-of-life date for Workfront Classic in July 2022.)

Share folders only in the top five levels of a folder hierarchy (This links to the 20.2 release notes, when this feature was first introduced in Preview.)

To ensure the best performance for users sharing folders, we are currently limiting sharing to the top five levels in a folder hierarchy on an object.

Each folder at the sixth level or below inherits its sharing configurations from the folder directly above it.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: February 10, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.2 release This feature is temporarily unavailable. This page will be updated when the feature is available in Production.

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

• Adobe Workfront Classic (Workfront Classic will be discontinued in March 2022, followed shortly by the end-of-life date for Workfront Classic in July 2022.)

Workfront Campaigns (Beta)

We are introducing a new object to Adobe Workfront that has the potential to change the way you manage work.

Workfront Campaigns enables you to organize projects from different portfolios and programs in a new work container. Campaigns were released to Preview beta with the 22.3 release, in July 2022. For more information, see 22.3 Project enhancements

This new container will evolve in future releases to connect work objects that are currently managed in separate silos.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: Throughout the 22.4 release timeframe
  This feature is planned to be removed from Preview on January 9, 2023. For more information, see the 23.1 Release overview page.

• Production release: TBD

Sorting preferences and usability enhancements in the Workload Balancer

To improve your experience when using the Workload Balancer, we have introduced the following enhancements, including improved sorting in the Unnasigned and Assigned sections, a new look and feel for project bars, an updated, easier-to-read design for Projected Dates, and more.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: June 2, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Removal and addition of resource budgeting fields in lists and reports

To reflect resource budgeting information from the Resource Planner, we have added a new Resource Planner Budgeted Hours field to lists and reports. Various fields were removed from lists and reports because they referred to deprecated tools that have been removed from Workfront in previous releases.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: June 23, 2022

• Production release: June 23, 2022

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Adobe Workfront for Experience Manager Assets integration

We are excited to announce that the Adobe Workfront Experience Manager Assets integration is now available for Cloud Service.

We've also introduced new functionality for both Cloud Service and Assets Essentials.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: N/A

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Combine multiple files in a single proof in the Creative Cloud plugin

You can now upload outside files with the content you've created in the Adobe Workfront for Creative Cloud plugin to create multi-file proofs in Workfront. Outside files appear as additional proof pages inside Workfront. With this enhancement, we've also updated the look and feel of the proof creation experience.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: N/A

• Production release: TBD

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

New SharePoint (Graph API) integration now available

We've created a new, simpler SharePoint integration. Now, you don't need to configure the SharePoint integration. Instead, the new SharePoint integration is simply an option you can choose, similar to other document integrations.

You will not lose access to documents that are currently linked through the legacy SharePoint integration. However, you will be unable to link new documents through the legacy integration.

Workfront Administrators can enable and disable SharePoint and legacy SharePoint integrations separately, based on the needs of their organization.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: June 2, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Proofing enhancements in the mobile app

The Adobe Workfront mobile app now allows you to view attachments on proof comments and add new attachments. Supported file types for attachments are images, documents, and videos.

Available on these dates:

You can also tag other proof users in comments and replies. Anyone you tag receives an email notification.

• Preview release: N/A

• Production release: Available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in mid to late July 2022.

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Updated timesheets

We are continuing to improve and update your experience when working with timesheets.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: June 2, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Look-and-feel updates during the 22.3 release timeframe

Minor updates to the look and feel of various areas of the application are being made within the 22.3 release timeframe. These enhancements will be made available in the Production environment a minimum of 2 weeks after releasing to Preview.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: Throughout the 22.3 release timeframe

• Production release: A minimum of 2 weeks after releasing to Preview (unless otherwise specified)

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Enable automatic refresh token rotation in your custom OAuth2 applications

To allow you more control over the security of your custom OAuth2 applications, we've added to option to enable refresh token rotation. When this option is enabled, every time a refresh token is used, your application automatically creates and sends a new refresh token, and disables the old one.

Your application must store the new refresh token after every refresh. Workfront does not store this refresh token.

Previously, refresh tokens expired after a set amount of time configured in the custom OAuth2 application settings.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: May 5, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience

Use PKCE in your custom OAuth2 integrations for Single-page web applications

You can now create Single-page web applications in your custom integrations using PKCE. PKCE is a secure authorization flow that works well with dynamically refreshing applications such as mobile apps, but is valuable across all OAuth2 clients. Instead of a static client secret, PKCE uses a dynamically generated string, eliminating the risk of a leaked client secret.

Previously, the available options for custom OAuth2 applications used either a user's name and password, or a client secret.

Available on these dates:

• Preview release: May 5, 2022

• Production release: With the 22.3 release

Available in these environments:

• The new Adobe Workfront experience