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Add projects to goals in Adobe Workfront Goals

Last update: Thu Jan 26 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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You can connect projects to goals to indicate how the goal progresses, based on the actual progress of the project. The project becomes a progress indicator for the goal.

By connecting projects to goals you can tie your organization’s strategic planning (goals) to the actual work your people are performing and completing every day (projects).

IMPORTANT
Project-level goals created in the Business Case area of a project are not connected to strategic goals created in Workfront Goals. For information about Business Case project goals, see Create Business Case goals.

Access requirements

You must have the following:

Adobe Workfront plan*
Pro or higher
Adobe Workfront license*

Request or higher

For more information, see Adobe Workfront licenses overview.

Product

You must purchase an additional license for the Adobe Workfront Goals to access functionality described in this article.

For information, see Requirements to use Workfront Goals.

Access level configurations*

Edit access to Goals

NOTE

If you still don't have access, ask your Workfront administrator if they set additional restrictions in your access level. For information on how a Workfront administrator can change your access level, see:

Object permissions

Manage permissions to the goal

For information about sharing goals, see Share a goal in Workfront Goals.

*To find out what plan, license type, or access you have, contact your Workfront administrator.

For additional information about access to Workfront Goals, see Requirements to use Workfront Goals.

Considerations about connecting projects to goals

  • You can add a project that meets the following criteria to a goal:

    • You must have at least permissions to View it.

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      NOTE
      If you lose your permissions to view the project after you have attached the project to the goal, you can still see project information on the goal, but you can no longer access the project.

    • The project must not be in a status of Dead.

  • You can associate multiple projects with a goal.

  • You can associate the same project with multiple goals.

  • You cannot manually update the progress of a project from the goal that the project is attached to. Instead, Workfront calculates the percent complete of the project and Workfront Goals calculates the goal progress using this percent complete. This updates the goal in real time after the project percent updates.

  • The project duration can be outside the time period of a goal. If a project lasts longer than the goal’s deadline, you can still close your goal and consider it completed, but the goal percent complete will not be 100%. The percent complete of the project no longer updates on the goal.

  • When you delete a project attached to a goal, the project is also deleted from the goal.

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    CAUTION
    If the goal was active before you deleted the project and there are no other progress indicators on the goal, the goal becomes Inactive.

Add projects to goals

  1. Click the Main Menu (draft this for Shell: or click the Main Menu in the upper-left corner, if it’s available.) , then Goals.

  2. From the Goal List, click the name of a goal to open the goal page.

  3. Click Progress indicators in the left panel.

  4. From the New progress indicator drop-down menu, click Add existing project.

    The Add projects to goal box displays.

  5. (Optional) Update the View, Filter, or Grouping by clicking the respective icons in the upper-right corner of the list to modify the way the list of projects displays.

  6. (Optional) Click the Search icon and start typing the name of a project to quickly find it in the list.

  7. Select the projects that you want to add to the goal, then click Add.

    The selected projects are added to the goal and they display in the Progress indicators section of the goal page, under the Project grouping.

    After you activate the goal, the progress of the goal automatically updates when the progress of a project updates. For information about activating a goal, see Activate goals in Adobe Workfront Goals.

Locate project information on goals

The following project information is visible at the goal level in the Progress indicators section of a goal's page:

Project Name
Any changes in the project name also reflect in the connected project.
Project Owner
Any changes in the project owner also reflect in the connected project.
Actual Progress
The percent complete of the project. You cannot manually update the project percent complete from the goal. Workfront automatically calculates it based on the percent complete of the tasks.
Progress
The percent complete of the project represented by a bar. Any change in the percent complete of the project automatically updates the goal progress unless the goal is closed.

Locate goal information on projects

The following goal information is visible in a project list or report:

Goal information
Description
Goals
A list of all goals that have a project associated with them.
Goal Hierarchy
The hierarchy that a goal belongs to. Only the parents of the goal and the goal display in this field. Children goals do not display.
Number of Linked Goals
The number of goals linked to one project.
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