I recently found some SharePoint log entries that pointed to a feature but only gave me an ID (guid). Hunting around, I found the easiest way to figure out what feature it was, was to open SQL Management Studio. Find the SharePoint database, in my case WSS_Content. There are 2 tables of interest. Features FeatureTracking […]
For a mini-project I’m working on, I had a need to convert a number to it’s binary format. From those that don’t know what that means, it’s converting a numerical value into it’s 1’s and 0’s version. eg. 1 = 1 2 = 10 3 = 11 100 = 1100100 Feel free to read more […]
Had a moment of insanity and completely forget that Nintex Workflow had a fn-Power inline function. That, together with choosing not to write some code to make an inline function or a custom action, I decided to make a UDA that would perform a Math Power calculation. Dumb?…oh yes. But hey, I went to the […]
If anyone has tried to log a big message to the Workflow History, you’ll find that the some of it is truncated. This is because the message is stored in a Single Line of Text field in SharePoint. This field type has a limit to how much it can hold. There are times when you […]
This scenario has come across my table a few times. I want to know all the workflows that are currently in progress in my Site Collection. I may need to terminate them. Or I may need to terminate and restart them. If you have Nintex Workflow with an Enterprise License, there is a report called […]
The out of the box variable types in Nintex Workflow are great, and they are perfect in almost all situations. But there are times I’ve had a need for something more. This is an example of a situatoin where I felt I needed something like a Dictionary or Hashtable. I was planning on querying SharePoint […]
When using the Assign a Flexi Task action, one of the “behavior” options is “All must agree on a specific outcome”. A good scenario here, is if you have a Project Proposal, and everyone who is assigned the task must approve the proposal. If someone doesn’t, the it’s a no-go. In the above example, I […]
I had a proof of concept recently that required me to look into starting workflows from SQL Server. It’s an interesting idea which I’d never played around with before. I’ve done development inside SQL, and have created plenty of Stored Procedures, but I’ve never had to deal with communicating outside of SQL itself. The following […]
SharePoint generally won’t let you run 2 instances of the same workflow on the same item. I know that Vadim, why are you telling me something that we all know??? Did you know that if you are running an instance of “WorkflowA” on an item, and you then go and make a change to the […]
I’ve noticed that in the past couple of years, I’m doing more with SharePoint web service calls from Nintex Workflow. The problem is (it’s not really a problem), is that most users are a little afraid of web services. They don’t really know what they are, or what permissions they need etc. There are 2 […]