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New Participant
November 9, 2017
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Setting to Stop Shifting Dates with Time off

  • November 9, 2017
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I wish there was a way to turn off the shifting dates feature when something is scheduled during a person's time off. It is helpful is the schedule can accommodate the dates being pushed, but many of our projects (the majority in fact) are on incredibly tight deadlines so the shifting schedules feature creates a lot more problems (and work) than it solves.

If we could turn it off when needed, or even per project, that would be helpful. We adjust resources for when someone is out of the office as it comes up day by day because our schedules and deadlines shift so much as is (changes in scope, extra rounds of revisions, clients late on approval, etc.) so the automated shifts from Workfront are hard to keep track of and causes a lot more stress.

14 replies

New Participant
May 31, 2019

This is a huge one for us, as we have SLAs in very short time frames for some of our line items (some within 4-5 days). If someone takes a week off, their shorter projects will not deliver in time. We don't even use time off in WF because of this, but we would really like to be able to keep track of time off without having to use a shared google calendar.

New Participant
March 26, 2019

Absolutely need the ability to see people's time off against work assigned without it shifting dates.

The key action should really be to help re-allocating rather than changing the all Project Timeline because of one team member being OOO.

It would also be great to be able to report on this.

ie: Flag allocated tasks against people out of office

New Participant
July 19, 2018

Agreed. But what would make this even better is if there was some indication on the tasks themselves to let us know that the dates have been shifted by PTO, or if it's turned off, that the task is in jeopardy since the assignee will be out and doesn't have the hours available. This way we can react quickly to swap out assignments.

Oh, and if we can't turn it off... can we at least get a notification that a project has been pushed out because someone has scheduled PTO so we can quickly react?

New Participant
July 19, 2018

Yes, this is a major frustration for us as well. It should at least through a notification to the project owner if this happens.