Cookies are a common technology used when filling in forms online (and they have other uses). I found a common theme in some of the forms I was designing using Nintex Forms and I thought I’d utilize cookies to store some information on the client machine, so that the user wouldn’t have to retype the same thing […]
Some of you may be using the “Set Workflow Status” action in Nintex Workflow, which allows you to create custom workflow statuses (statii?). I just had a need to find out what status codes sharePoint thinks are available for my workflow, since there seemed to be a mismatch between the status I was setting, and […]
In the past, I’ve been asked for the best way to have an approval form where some more information will be required from the approver. Rather than InfoPath (which I’ve generally had headaches with) or developing a custom form in C# to extend the Flexi Task action form, I’ve nudged people towards using the Request […]
The question of Empty Date fields in SharePoint and how to use them in Nintex Workflow seems to come up often. It’s something I probably should have posted about before, but it kept slipping my mind. Today, I got asked by a user if i could write something about it, since it has the potential of […]
Nintex Workflow comes with a Create Site Collection action. In most scenarios, that would be sufficient. But there are occassions where you need to it be a little more dynamic. In the current action, the Template property of this action is a drop down selection which you need to pick at design time. If you […]
Here are some common User Defined Actions you may come across a need for. I’m keeping this post short and sweet, as it’s just to provde the User Defined Action files and they are fairly straight forward. 1. Get First Date of the Next Month 2. Get First Date of This Month 3. Get Last […]
Starting a workflow via PowerShell can be a useful function and can speed up a lot of work. I’ve created a couple of scripts to help out. The first one is a script to start a SharePoint workflow, using the SharePoint object model. The second one is a script to start a Nintex Workflow, using […]
Finding the position of a piece of text in another piece of text is something I’ve had a need to do for a while now. It looks like someone else has had that requirement. So I put together a very simple Inline Function. fn-InStr This inline function will take 3 parameters 1. Input text 2. […]
Today, Nintex released Nintex Forms 2013. The product, to support form design in SharePoint 2013. You can find more information here: Nintex Forms Whether you’ve used Nintex Forms 2010 or this is your first time seeing Nintex Forms, I think you’ll be quite impressed. It looks very refined and seems to fit perfectly into the […]
Here are some commonly requested Nintex related PowerShell commands. Find all the Nintex features, their Guids and Scope, order by Scope. Get-SPFeature | where{$_.DisplayName -like “Nintex*”} | sort -Property Scope Find all the Nintex features, order by DisyplayName. Get-SPFeature | where{$_.DisplayName -like “Nintex*”} | sort -Property DisplayName Find a specific Nintex feature (eg. NintexWorkflowAdmin) Get-SPFeature […]