Adobe AD0-E908 - Adobe Workfront Core Developer Professional

ï‚·Create layout templates for sets of users, not individuals:

This practice helps in standardizing the user experience across similar roles or teams, making it easier to manage and update templates. It ensures consistency and reduces the administrative effort required to maintain individual templates.

The Workfront for Outlook integration enhances user experience in the following ways:

Updating Projects, Tasks, or Issues: Users can directly update existing Workfront items (projects, tasks, or issues) with information from an email. This seamless integration ensures that relevant email content is efficiently transferred into Workfront without needing to switch between applications.

Creating Workfront Requests: Users can create new Workfront requests based on emails received in Outlook. This functionality streamlines the request submission process, allowing users to quickly generate requests from their email content.

References

Workfront integration documentation with Outlook explains these features and how they improve user productivity by integrating email and project management workflows​​​​.

In Adobe Workfront, time can be recorded on Projects, Tasks, and Issues. This flexibility allows users to track time spent on various types of work items, providing comprehensive time management and reporting capabilities.

Record Time on Projects:

Navigate to a project.

Click on the "Hours" tab.

Enter the time spent on the project.

Record Time on Tasks:

Navigate to a task within a project.

Click on the "Hours" tab.

Enter the time spent on the task.

Record Time on Issues:

Navigate to an issue within a project.

Click on the "Hours" tab.

Enter the time spent on the issue.

References:

The processes for recording time on various objects are detailed in the Workfront time-tracking documentation and training materials (Advanced Reporting - Monique Evans - Code Snippet - June 2, 2020)​​.

For efficient use of a project template that captures phases within each project and supports critical-path timelines, the following elements are essential:

Predecessors: These define the relationships between tasks, ensuring that the sequence of tasks reflects their dependencies. This is crucial for maintaining the integrity of the critical path.

Milestone Tasks: These are key tasks that mark significant points or stages in the project timeline. Including milestone tasks helps in tracking progress and ensuring that critical deadlines are met.

References

The importance of predecessors and milestone tasks in project templates is emphasized in Workfront's project management guidelines and best practices for creating reusable workflows​​​​.

In Adobe Workfront, the hierarchical relationship between Queue Topics and Topic Groups is that Topic Group is the parent, and Queue Topic is the child. This means that a Topic Group can contain multiple Queue Topics, but a Queue Topic is always part of a Topic Group. This structure helps organize and categorize different types of requests or issues within Workfront, making it easier to manage and track them.

References

The hierarchy between Queue Topics and Topic Groups is frequently highlighted in Workfront documentation and training materials, reinforcing that Topic Groups serve as the broader category under which specific Queue Topics fall​​​​.

ï‚·Objective: Ensure users have access to use a new project template and the projects created from it.

ï‚·Configuration Steps:

Step 1: Configure Project Sharing

Explanation: This setting ensures that users can access and use the projects created from the template.

Step 2: Configure Template Sharing

Explanation: This setting ensures that users have access to the template itself, allowing them to create new projects from it.

In Adobe Workfront, there are specific constraints regarding the association of projects, programs, portfolios, and tasks. A project and its tasks can only belong to one portfolio and one program at a time. This means that a single project cannot be simultaneously associated with multiple portfolios or programs. This constraint ensures clear and unambiguous project management and reporting within the organizational structure.

When organizing projects using Portfolios and Programs in Adobe Workfront, two key considerations apply:

Portfolios are containers for Programs:This means that programs are organized within portfolios, and a portfolio can contain multiple programs. This hierarchical structure helps in managing and aligning various programs under broader strategic initiatives represented by portfolios.

Projects can be associated with only one Program or Portfolio:A project can be linked to a single program and, by extension, to the portfolio containing that program. This ensures clarity in project alignment and reporting within the organizational structure.

References

These considerations are discussed in the Workfront training materials and documentation, which explain the hierarchical relationships and constraints for using portfolios and programs to organize projects​​​​.

ï‚·Create a project report:

Navigate to the Reports area in Workfront and select the option to create a new project report.

When creating a chart in an Adobe Workfront report, a key requirement is that at least one grouping must be defined. This is necessary because the chart needs a way to organize and display the data visually, and groupings provide the categories or series that the chart will use to aggregate and represent the data.

Open Report Builder:

Navigate to the Reports area and create a new report or edit an existing one.

Define Grouping:

Go to the "Grouping" tab within the report builder.

Add at least one grouping to categorize the data. This could be based on any field relevant to the data you are reporting on, such as project status, task owner, etc.

Create Chart:

After defining the grouping, switch to the "Chart" tab.

Select the type of chart you want to create (e.g., bar chart, pie chart).

Configure the chart settings, ensuring that the defined grouping is used for the chart's series or categories.

Save the Report:

Save the report to ensure that the chart is correctly configured and displayed based on the defined grouping.

References:

This requirement is covered in the Workfront documentation and training materials that explain the prerequisites for creating charts in reports (Webinar - Admin Essentials - User Experience - Apr 27, 2022)​​.