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January 31, 2020
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Contouring in Workload Balancer - How will end users see it?

  • January 31, 2020
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Hi everyone, Vazgen's here, Senior Product Manager over the Workload Balancer solution. As we are working on adding the contouring capabilities to the Workload Balancer, a question arises - how will end users see that their hours have been contoured? We have several ideas in mind, but wanted to bring this up to community for discussion. Possible solutions we came up with so far: - Workfront Home Calendar view - Email notification with a summary of hours planned for today - Workfront notification - Push notification on the mobile app - A new field on task details page that shows the hourly breakdown - Update stream message Feel free to add any ideas you have! Vazgen Babayan Senior Product Manager
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Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore
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February 1, 2020
Thanks Vazgen, We use the full CRUD on the current contour data, reading, deleting, adding, and updating contour information on Tasks (and Issues, as I recall). Regards, Doug Doug Den Hoed - AtAppStore
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January 31, 2020
Thanks for the feedback, Doug! Those will change moving forward, although both versions will work so long as we haven't deprecated the current version of the Scheduling tool. I'll reach out to you with more details on the new object and it's API capabilities. It would be very helpful if you could send out what calls do you use to leverage the existing API object. Vazgen Babayan Product Manager
Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore
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January 31, 2020
Thanks Vazgen, I like all of those suggestions, have another , and would rank them in this order (sharing my reasoning) : 1. create two new built-in user views (so anyone can drop it into any user report, similar to the User Login view) that show Planned Work For Today and Planned Work For This Week (highly reusable) 2. Workfront notification (universal audience; all that great notification taste, with none of the email/push extra calories) 3. (Optional) Email notification with a summary of hours planned for today (broadest external to Workfront audience) 4. (Optional) Push notification on the mobile app (broad external to Workfront audience) 5. A new field on task details page that shows the hourly breakdown (requires "looking") 6. Workfront Home Calendar view (limited audience) 7. Update stream message (too easily lost / scrolled out of sight) In a related matter... As our "https://store.atappstore.com/product/capacity-charting/" Capacity Charts , Resource Contouring (private), Scenario Planning (private), and "https://store.atappstore.com/product/ubertimesheet/" UberTimesheet (as of next release) solutions all depend on Workfront's underlying Contouring API calls, would you please confirm that those API calls (and out of curiosity, the underlying data structure) will NOT be changing as part of the improvements you are considering (and keep me posted, if you suspect they might, at some point)? Regards, Doug Doug Den Hoed - AtAppStore