A project manager would like to assign tasks across projects to a team without having to navigate to each project. How can the project manager do this?

Adobe Workfront enables project managers to efficiently assign multiple tasks from different projects simultaneously. This is achieved by creating a task report that consolidates tasks from various projects into a single list view. From this report, the manager can select multiple tasks and use the bulk assignment feature to assign them to a specific user, team, or job role in one action. This method eliminates the need to navigate into each individual project plan, directly addressing the manager's requirement for cross-project assignments.

A. Assign work using the Resource Planner. The Resource Planner is a tool for high-level capacity planning and forecasting resource availability and allocation, not for making direct assignments to specific tasks.
B. Assign work by drag-and-drop. Drag-and-drop is a user interface mechanism typically available within specific contexts like a single project's task list or the Workload Balancer, not the primary method for bulk assigning tasks across multiple projects from a report.

1. Adobe Experience League, Workfront Documentation. "Assign work in bulk." In the overview section, it states, "You can assign multiple tasks, issues, or projects to users from a list. This is useful when you want to assign all items in a list to the same resources." This confirms that using a list (report) is the method for bulk assignment across projects.

2. Adobe Experience League, Workfront Documentation. "Assign tasks." Under the section "Assign multiple tasks from a list," the documentation details the process: "Go to a list of tasks...Select multiple tasks, then click the More icon...and then click Assign." This procedure works on any task list, including reports that span multiple projects.

3. Adobe Experience League, Workfront Documentation. "Resource Planner overview." This document describes the tool's purpose: "Using the Resource Planner, you can view the allocation of your resources and the availability of your job roles...The Resource Planner helps you manage your resource allocation." This clearly distinguishes its function from direct task assignment.