Create records
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For information about fast releases, see Enable or disable fast releases for your organization.
- A new Workfront package and license. Workfront Planning is not available for legacy Workfront packages or licenses.
- A Workfront Planning package.
- Your organization鈥檚 instance of Workfront must be onboarded to the 蜜豆视频 Unified Experience.
In 蜜豆视频 Workfront Planning, a record is an instance of a record type.
You can create records by doing one of the following:
- Create records by adding them inline from the record type table view
- Create records using the New record or Request record button from any record type view
- Copy and paste a list of records from an external list
- Duplicate records from a table view
- Create records as you connect them from other records
- Create records by submitting a request form to a record type
- Create records by importing information from a CSV or Excel file
- Create records by using automations
For information about managing records in the table or timeline views, see the following articles:
Access requirements
You must have the following access to perform the steps in this article:
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蜜豆视频 Workfront plan* |
Any of the following Workfront plans:
Workfront Planning is not available for legacy Workfront plans |
蜜豆视频 Workfront Planning package* |
Any For more information about what is included in each Workfront Planning plan, contact your Workfront account manager. |
蜜豆视频 Workfront platform |
Your organization's instance of Workfront must be onboarded to the 蜜豆视频 Unified Experience to be able to access all the capabilities of Workfront Planning. For more information, see 蜜豆视频 Unified Experience for Workfront. |
蜜豆视频 Workfront license* |
Standard Workfront Planning is not available for legacy Workfront licenses |
Access level configuration |
There are no access level controls for 蜜豆视频 Workfront Planning Edit access in Workfront for the object types that you want to create (projects, programs, and portfolios) as you connect the records to them. |
Object permissions |
Contribute or higher permissions to the workspace where you want to add records. View or higher permissions to the workspace to create records using the Request record button on the record page System Administrators have permissions to all workspaces, including the ones they did not create Manage permissions to Workfront objects (portfolios) to add children objects (projects). |
Layout template | All users, including Workfront administrators, must be assigned a layout template that includes the Planning area in the Main Menu |
*For more information about Workfront access requirements, see Access requirements in Workfront documentation.
Create records by adding them inline from the record type table view
You can create records in the table view of a record type page, as you add them inline.
For information about editing record information, see Edit records.
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Click the Main Menu icon
The Workfront Planning landing page opens.
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(Optional and conditional) If you are a Workfront administrator, click one of the following tabs:
- My workspaces: Displays workspaces you created.
- Other workspaces: Displays all workspaces in Workfront Planning, including the ones shared with you.
For all other users, all workspaces you created or are shared with you display in the Workspaces area.
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Click the workspace where you want to add records.
The workspace opens and the record types display as cards.
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Click a record type card. For information about creating a record type, see Create record types.
The record type page opens in the view that you last accessed. By default, a record type page opens in the table view.
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(Conditional) From the table view, do one of the following:
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Click New record in the last row of the table
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Click Shift + Enter on your keyboard from any column or row of the table. This adds an empty row under the record you start from.
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Hover over a record鈥檚 primary field, click the More menu
Workfront automatically uploads a thumbnail to each new record. You can later modify these images. For information, see Add a cover image to a record.
A new record is added in the table.
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Click the new record鈥檚 primary field
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Click the Open details icon
The preview box opens in the table.
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Start typing information about the new record in the fields you see in the preview box.
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There are no mandatory fields for records. However, we recommend that you add information for the primary field of a record, as it is helpful to identify records when linking records to one another. For more information about primary fields, see Manage the table view and Primary field overview.
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Fields that refer to other record types or calculated fields are read-only fields.
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(Conditional) When adding records in the table, before opening the record鈥檚 preview box, continue adding information on each row, then click Enter on your keyboard to save your changes.
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Click the new record鈥檚 name or the Open details icon
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(Optional) From the record鈥檚 preview box, click the Open in new tab icon
Workfront automatically saves your changes.
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(Optional) Close the preview box or click the back arrow to the left of the record name, if you opened the record鈥檚 page.
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(Optional) From the table view, use the following keyboard shortcuts to undo or redo adding new records or their information, when adding them in the table view:
- CTRL + Z (鈱 + Z for Mac) to undo a change
- CTRL + Shift + Z (鈱 + Shift + Z for Mac) to redo a change
Create records using the New record or Request record button from any record type view
Users with View permissions to the workspace can create records only using the Request record button on the record type page.
Users with Contribute and Manage permissions to the workspace can create records using the New record button on the record type page.
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Click the Main Menu icon
The Workfront Planning landing page opens.
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(Optional and conditional) If you are a Workfront administrator, click one of the following tabs:
- My workspaces: Displays workspaces you created.
- Other workspaces: Displays all workspaces in Workfront Planning, including the ones shared with you.
For all other users, all workspaces you created or are shared with you display in the Workspaces area.
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Click the workspace where you want to add records.
The workspace opens and the record types display as cards.
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Click a record type card. For information about creating a record type, see Create record types.
The record type page opens in the view that you last accessed. By default, a record type page opens in the table view.
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(Conditional) From any view, click of the following in the upper-right corner of your screen, depending on the workspace permissions:
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Click New record, if you have Contribute or higher permissions on the workspace
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Click Request record, if you have View permissions on the workspace .
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(Conditional) If you clicked New record, do the following:
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Click one of the following ways to create a record, then click Continue:
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Add manually. The record鈥檚 preview box opens.
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Upload from file
Add records, as described in the article Create records by importing information from a CSV or Excel file, starting with step 6. -
Submit a request
The request form of the record type opens.A workspace manager must create a request form to be able to add a record using a request form.
note tip TIP Some record types may have multiple forms. Click one to open it. Add the record, as described in the article Submit 蜜豆视频 Workfront Planning requests to create records, starting with step 6.
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(Conditional) If you clicked Request record, do the following:
- (Conditional) If the record type has more than one request form, click one to choose it.
- Continue adding information in the form to create the record, as described in the article Submit 蜜豆视频 Workfront Planning requests to create records, starting with step 6.
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(Conditional) Review the new records.
Depending on how you chose to add the record, some of the following things may occur:
- A new record is added to the record type, unless you chose to add it using a request form with an approval process. The approval must be granted by all approvers before the record is created.
- Multiple records are added to the record type, if you added records using a CSV or Excel spreadsheet.
- A new request is added in the Planning tab of the Workfront Requests area, if you added the request by submitting a request form.
Create records by copying and pasting them from an external list
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Start creating records in the Table view, as described in the section Create records by manually adding them to a record type in this article.
Ensure that the table view has the columns (or the fields) that you want to populate with the new record information.
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Click New < Record type name > in the last row of the table to add as many new rows to the table as you want your new records to be.
For example, add 10 rows to the table view if you want to paste the information for 10 new records from another application.
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In another application, create a list of records that you want to import.
For example, you can use an Excel spreadsheet to create your list.
The list should contain information in a tabular format.
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From another application, select several rows and columns, then paste the information in the record type table view, starting with the first new record.
The following information is imported in the Workfront Planning area:
- The rows contain the new records
- The columns populate information for the fields of the records.
Create records by duplicating them
For information about duplicating records, see Duplicate records.
Create records as you connect them
You can create the following object types as you connect them from other records:
- Workfront Planning records
- Workfront objects
This section describes how you can create Workfront Planning records as you connect them from other records.
You must have the following before you can add new records by connecting them from existing records:
- Connected record types. For information, see Connect record types.
- Records.
- The correct access and permissions in Workfront Planning and Workfront, as described in the section Access requirements in this article.
To create records as you are connecting them from other records:
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Start connecting Workfront Planning records, as described in the article Connect records. You can connect records from the following areas:
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A connection field in following areas of Workfront Planning:
- The table view
- The details page or preview box of a record
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A connection field in the the Planning section of a project, portfolio, or program in Workfront.
For information, see Manage record connections from Workfront objects.
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(Conditional) If you can鈥檛 find a record when trying to connect it, click + Add
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Start typing a name, then click + Add. The + Add button is followed by the name of the record type you are connecting to. For example, 鈥淎dd brands鈥 when adding a brand to an existing campaign. The name you typed also follows the Add button.The record is created and added to the connected record field.
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You can create only projects, portfolios, and programs in Workfront when connecting them from a record.
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You cannot create groups or companies when connecting them from a record in Workfront Planning.
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(Optional) Go to the table view of the record type whose record you created. A new record displays in the last row of the view.
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(Optional) Start adding information for the new record in the table view
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Click its name to open the details page and add information there.
Create records by submitting a request form to a record type
After someone creates a request form for a record type and shares a link to it with you, you can submit a request which creates a record for that record type.
For information, see Create and manage a request form in 蜜豆视频 Workfront Planning.
Both Workfront users and users external to your organization can submit requests to Planning record types and create records, if they have a link to the request form.
For information, see Submit 蜜豆视频 Workfront Planning requests to create records.
Create records when importing record types from a CSV or Excel file
You can import records when you import record types using a CSV or Excel file.
For information, see Create record types.
Create records by importing records from a CSV or Excel file
You can import records for existing record types when you import information from a CSV or Excel file.
For information, see Create records by importing information from a CSV or Excel file.
Create records by using automations
You can configure automations in Workfront Planning that, when activated, create records when triggered from a Planning record. The created records are automatically connected to the records you are triggering the automation from.
You can configure and activate the automation in the record鈥檚 page in Workfront Planning. The connected record that is created is placed in the connected field of the record type you run the automation from.
For information, see Create objects using 蜜豆视频 Workfront Planning record automations.