Out of Office Delegation

It would be great if we could use the Time Off Calendar in Workfront and then your icon changed like it does for Teams or Slack to show you're out of office. This would enhance communication with the teams.

Just a week after the 22.3 release and our users are happy to see the new options for work delegation. However, they're still asking for some way to notify or call attention to users being out-of-office. As others have said, this is most critical in directed updates.

The current workaround is far less than ideal: after wondering why you haven't received a reply in Workfront, you switch applications and find an OOO reply. It's hard to explain why this is necessary, especially when we're highlighting the benefits of integrations with MS Outlook, SharePoint and Teams.

Just a week after the 22.3 release and our users are happy to see the new options for work delegation. However, they're still asking for some way to notify or call attention to users being out-of-office. As others have said, this is most critical in directed updates.

The current workaround is far less than ideal: after wondering why you haven't received a reply in Workfront, you switch applications and find an OOO reply. It's hard to explain why this is necessary, especially when we're highlighting the benefits of integrations with MS Outlook, SharePoint and Teams.

Project Manager here. I'm late to the party, but it would be great if a Project Owner/Project Manager, could delegate their projects to other Project Owners/Projects Managers, while they are out. And for those delegated projects to function as if they're owned by the delegated PM for the duration of the owners OOO.

Also, it would be great for Delegated projects to include a tag in all Project/Task/Issue Assigned To Fields, showing that the displayed user name is the Delegated Assignee, and not the Primary Assignee. The idea is to, at a glance, tell the difference between the items you own, and the items you're just covering. If that makes any sense.

Project Manager here. I'm late to the party, but it would be great if a Project Owner/Project Manager, could delegate their projects to other Project Owners/Projects Managers, while they are out. And for those delegated projects to function as if they're owned by the delegated PM for the duration of the owners OOO.

Also, it would be great for Delegated projects to include a tag in all Project/Task/Issue Assigned To Fields, showing that the displayed user name is the Delegated Assignee, and not the Primary Assignee. The idea is to, at a glance, tell the difference between the items you own, and the items you're just covering. If that makes any sense.

Our 'workaround' for OOO is editing the users surname in their profile to e.g 'smith - OOO until xx.xx.xx'. This alerts anyone tagging them that they are unavailable. However this doesn't work for proofs, and has to be done manually.

Hopefully I'm stating the obvious. It would also need to give the delegated user equal access rights to the related objects including to any proofs (especially open proofs).

This would be SOOOO helpful. The number 1 question/complaint we receive is around OOO and how manual it is to re-assign tasks/projects/requests.

Yes, this would be such a useful feature to add, especially to effectively manage work and timelines around end of the year activities on projects.

OMG yes! Especially for Workfront Proof!