Activate goals in Adobe Workfront Goals
When you create a goal, Adobe Workfront Goals saves it with a status of Draft. Drafted goals are not part of goal management.
To keep track of how close you are to achieving a goal by updating its progress, you must activate it. This changes its status to Active.
For information about creating a goal, see Create goals in Adobe Workfront Goals.
Access requirements
You must have the following:
*To find out what plan, license type, or access you have, contact your Workfront administrator.
Prerequisites
You must have the following before you can start:
- A Layout Template that includes the Goals area in the Main Menu.
To activate a goal requires that the goal is associated with a progress indicator like an activity, result, project, or it is aligned to another active goal.
Do at least one of the following to be able to activate a goal:
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Add a Result to the goal
For information, see Add results to goals in Adobe Workfront Goals.
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Add an Activity to the goal
For information, see Add activities to goals in Adobe Workfront Goals.
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Connect a project to the goal
For information, see Add projects to goals in Adobe Workfront Goals.
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Align another goal to the goal you want to activate
For information , see Align goals by connecting them in Adobe Workfront Goals.
Activate goals
You can activate goals you created or a goal that you have Manage permissions to.
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Go to a goal that you want to activate. The goal page opens.
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Click the More menu to the right of the goal name, then click Activate.
The goal status changes to Active. You can now track progress on the goal and the goal displays in the Check-in section as well as is taken into account in the Graphs sections of Workfront Goals