Adobe Workfront
Where the work lives: requests, projects, tasks, approvals, and reporting. People plan and track here. It is the system of record: almost every automation reads from it or writes back to it.
Technical guide · start here if you're new
Workfront is where the work lives. Fusion is what moves data between Workfront and everything around it. This guide takes you from the six core ideas, through eight production-grade automation blueprints, to a reference for the platform mechanics underneath, built for someone opening Fusion for the first time.
01 · Foundations
Learn these first. Every blueprint further down is just these six ideas arranged for a different job, so if these click, the rest is pattern-matching.
Where the work lives: requests, projects, tasks, approvals, and reporting. People plan and track here. It is the system of record: almost every automation reads from it or writes back to it.
Adobe's integration platform, built on the Make (Integromat) engine. You build scenarios that connect Workfront to other systems (AEM, Firefly, Salesforce, Box) and run the steps between people.
A single Fusion workflow: a trigger followed by a chain of modules. A good scenario owns one job, like "when a request is approved, create a project." Several small ones beat one giant one.
The building block inside a scenario: Search, Create Record, an HTTP call, a Router. Each costs one operation when it runs. Wire modules together and you have a scenario.
Instant triggers (Watch Events) fire the moment something changes. Polling triggers check on a schedule, and five minutes is the floor. Every scenario begins with exactly one.
The deliberate pause. Automation stops and waits for someone to approve, choose, or commit, because some decisions should never be made by a scenario. If a scenario can close its own gate, it isn't a gate.
02 · The blueprints
Pick a use case from the tabs below, then step through each stage, or press Run the flow and watch the signal travel the track, pausing at every human gate. Each stage shows the implementation, the guardrails that keep it safe, and the ways it fails in production. The last four tabs are reference libraries: platform mechanics and a module catalogue.
Workfront Fusion · automation portfolio
Waiting on a person.
Implementation
Guardrails
Error handling
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