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PavlinPa1
PavlinPa1
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January 22, 2020
Question

Designate Multiple Project Sponsors to a Project

  • January 22, 2020
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Hello Community,

Currently, Workfront allows for designating one project sponsor to a given project.

Does anyone have an idea on how to add/designate multiple Project Sponsors to one project by using the built-in field?

(A custom form would be a solution...)

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you! Grazie! Danke! Merci!

Cheers,

+Pavlin

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    Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore
    Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore
    New Participant
    January 25, 2020

    Hi Erica,

    You understood right, but alas, I explained wrong, and have just recanted (see Brick Wall) on that thread: both the native Project Owner field and the new Typeahead User field allow only a single entry.

    Regards,

    Doug

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    TimGr1
    New Participant
    January 25, 2020

    Hi Pavlin,

    I have the same need as well. Other than custom fields / form that you mentioned, the way I found around this is that you put in one owner and one sponsor for the project, but you consider others as "executive stakeholders" on the project. They're usually nearly solid dotted lines as far as reporting back to them but it also doesn't muddy the waters for "chain of command" in a project. I find it's cleanest to have one sponsor but that sometimes just isn't reality. When I was able to give someone a job role though and consult with them on decisions for executive stakeholder and they work it out with the main sponsor to make a final decision it has worked well.

    From a WF point of view, currently it's the one name in the field that I've seen. Maybe suggest it as a new feature and we'll see how it votes up or down. I'd vote up to it.

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    EricaLo
    New Participant
    January 24, 2020
    Hi Doug, I'm facing a similar issue as Pavlin but needing the ability to assign multiple Project Owners to projects. I read through the post you linked, but if I understood it right, that's for creating a separate field using the new typeahead field, and wouldn't display directly in the Project Owner native field. Any advice? Thanks! Erica Erica Lorenzo
    Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore
    Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore
    New Participant
    January 22, 2020

    Hi Pavlin,

    I invite you to consider leveraging the (similar) silver-bullet technique that mentioned for tracking Stakeholders in this post.

    Regards,

    Doug

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