Nintex Workflow User Defined Actions have 3 icons that a user can see. If you don’t know what a User Defined Action is, take a look here: What is a User Defined Action Normal Icon – 49×49 pixels Warning Icon – 49×49 pixels Toolbar Icon – 30×30 pixels When you design a User Defined […]
Reusablility is one of the key features of Nintex Workflow and what makes it stand out. When it comes to building workflows, the aim is to automate some business logic so that employees spend more time on more important business tasks. You may have a complex business scenario that is quite laborious, but if you can […]
A little while ago I discovered some Javascript libraries that I found quite easy to use, called SPAPI. They let you make web service calls to the SharePoint Web Services from Javascript. You can download the JS libraries here: Download Libraries The aim is to have a Nintex Form that on load, pulls out some […]
It’s always fun to work with html controls, jQuery and trying to do some calculations. If you have encountered a need to do some date calculations or maybe in the future you find this need, hopefully this post will make it a little easier. The aim here is to have one DatePicker control on our […]
As I work through a process of automating my blog announcements using Nintex Workflow, I’ve hit a few snags. First was the previous post – Nintex Workflow URL Encoding User Defined Action. I’ll be sharing my findings in automating this process through some posts on here, and hopefully breaking it up into User Defined Actions […]
After many moons, I finally decided to sit down and automate some work that I regulary did manually. One of the steps required a url to be encoded so I could post it to another site. There’s no action in Nintex Workflow to encode a url this way, so the option was to either develop […]
A new addition to the PowerShell script for Nintex Workflow that I’ve been working on, so that you can get a report of the total number of actions in a workflow and also how many times each type of action is used. The usage is quite simple: .\AllWorkflows.ps1 -nwoperation FindActionsInWorkflow -nwlogin domain\username -nwpassword password -nwworkflow “workflowname” […]
Some of you may be aware of a post from Microsoft that describes what is and isn’t allowed for text in Site names, Folder names and File names : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905231 I thought it would be a good bit of logic to make into a User Defined Action in Nintex Workflow as it would make it very […]
There’s not much to say about this post. I had been asked about pulling our Query String values from a Nintex Form. It’s actually not that hard. The following is a little code that you can put into the Custom Javascript section of the form settings. In the above example, I’m looking for a name,value […]
If you haven’t seen Nintex Forms, go and either download a trial or a hosted trial. You’ll find that if you have any number of fields in your list and generate a Nintex Form for it, it will automatically generate a visually appealing, user friendly form. It’s a very quick and easy way to have […]