As with any design or development products, inevitably the longer you spend on them, the more you learn how to use the features. This also means that your solutions will become more elaborate. In the case of Nintex Workflow, does this mean that you start to over-engineer your workflows? Yes and no. The goal of […]
The out of the box start form for starting a Nintex Workflow looks something like this. I’ve seen a few requests for people who want their form to look a little different. So I thought it was well worth the time to look into developing a custom start form. To start off we’ll make a […]
I have list of Employee/Manager pairs. If you see the screenshot of the list below, you can see that there are 4 employees, and you can see that there is a chain, going from :Vadim Tabakman -> Fred Smith -> John Wayne -> Mary Roberts -> No Manager The issue is, how do we create […]
The Nintex Workflow State Machine is a very useful piece of functionality. Not only is it a great enhancement to workflow design, it also improves maintenance of a workflow in the future. Your workflow logic may require you to jump between difference levels business logic. An example of this, is if you have several levels […]
A situation recently arose, where someone wanted to schedule a Nintex Workflow on the 3rd Monday of every month. Out-of-the-box, there really isn’t a way to do this, because the user interface for configuring the schedule of a workflow only allows you to schedule it every ‘n’ number of hours, days or months. I guess […]
Database Connection StringsLDAP PathsWeb service URLsExchange URLsUser Credentials When moving Nintex Workflow workflows from one environment, such as QA or Development, to another environment such as Production, the above things most likely will change. Most companies will design their workflows, and then after testing and approval, they will move the workflow to Production. What they […]
The Nintex Workflow Update XML action, as I mentioned in the first Update XML Action article, can be used to update not only simple XML, but also InfoPath forms that users have filled in. Whether it is simple XML or an InfoPath form, you still need to know the structure of the XML. Not knowing […]
Verbose Logging is a feature that is fairly new and is slowly being picked up by the masses. Where as before, workflow designers would use the Log in the History List action to log all the information they wanted to see for debugging, now they can enable the Verbose Logging functionality and be provided with […]
How would you go about automating copying all folders and their files from one Document Library to another using Nintex Workflow? SharePoint exposes 2 web services that help us here. The Lists and Copy web services. The Lists web service lets us query the source document library using the GetListItems web method and find out […]
An interesting topic arose on Nintex Connect, regarding having the same workflow on a number of lists and libraries, and how one would go about updating all of them. This is especially important, given that in the SharePoint 2007, you can’t create a declarative workflow for a Content Type. You could create a workflow, save […]