New My Home - hide the 'New Task' button

Thank you for your idea to hide the New Task button on the Home page.

It seems based on the votes and comments below this would be a feature we would want the system admin to control since workflows are different for our customers (some like the ability to have their workers add tasks).

I will reach out to our engineering and design teams to determine the effort for this type of change and the affected areas that might be impacted. After review, we will prioritize the effort among our other work and solicit additional customer feedback.

Thanks for your time in contributing to this discussion.

Dear all,

We have the same concern. Despite being advised not to create personal tasks, so of our users are still creating them so we have some work going under the radar for capacity planning. It would be great to be able to customize that area to select the type of tasks that can be created from the button.

Thank you.

Best regards,

François

Rather than hide, please give admins the ability to kill this feature system wide. It is beyond me why a feature would be FORCED in the system that makes work items that can collect logged hours that get excluded form hours reporting by default. We loose so much project time to these tasks, that should be attributed to specific project efforts, even given the amount of email blasts and training we try to do.

Furthermore, we are at risk of under reporting time on development projects that we get tax credit for... thus costing us $$.

Please give us the option to disable this feature!

I like the add new task feature but restrict it by being required to link it to a project.

Personal tasks does not allocate anytime, also without a special report you cannot see the list of unique work that user is being asked to do.

Our department set up misc. task projects for each user where they can add the misc. tasks, others can to, that are not associated to a project, but people are still adding personal tasks not linked to anything and this is just messy.

In addition to the hiding functionality it would be great to be able to set only create new tasks on projects.

I too like our users to have the ability to add personal tasks so I agree that making it an option to hide the button is a good idea

Agree this would be beneficial to have tied to access levels/roles/or layout templates as an option to turn on and off.

It should simply be a layout option for the admin where they control whether the New Task button appears or not. All organizations run differently. It may come down to even wanting some users to have this in your organization and others not to have it. If it could be controlled by the layout, that would be great.

We like our users to have the ability to add personal tasks so I agree that making it an option to hide the button is a good idea.

Agreed! This is causing a huge problem for us now that we've rolled-out timesheeting.

I agree, the New Task button is not useful and we discourage users from creating personal tasks in Workfront. Thanks for submitting Maria.