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 […]
Web Services are quite handy, but some of the data that gets returned can look like giberrish. This is especially true when you are dealing with XML that gets returned. A scenario I came across recently, was getting a list of SharePoint users that are in a SharePoint group. This is possible via the SharePoint […]
I’m sure a lot of you have wanted to have a workflow run when someone decides to delete an item out of a List. Ok, maybe not a lot of you, but some. Ok, atleast a couple, because I’ve seen the questions on Nintex Connect. So the only way to do this, would be to […]
The Inline Function functionality has really opened up Nintex Workflow design. You can use any of the out-of-the-box inline functions (look up the Nintex Workflow help – get it at http://connect.nintex.com). But the really exciting thing is that Microsoft provides other static methods that you can add to Nintex Workflow and do even more in […]
Recently, I saw a Nintex Workflow user comment on a Nintex Connect – How many black balloons ? forum, about how their company has an initiative, that every must turn their computers off at night. Less electricity, means less greenhouse gases, means less bills and better for the environment. The idea was, that they had […]
There are a number of places on MSDN, where the values you pass to a SharePoint web service are shown in hexadecimal form. This is all good if you are developing in one of the .Net languages as developers would know what that means. But when you are trying to make a call to something […]
In my previous blog article – Nintex Reporting – Creating your Dashboard , I talked about creating a new Nintex Reporting dashboard that focused on Activity reports. In this article, I’ll talk about creating a Nintex Workflow so that we can get approval form our manager to see if the new Dashboard (or Report page) […]
*** Announcement 7th April 2013 *** Now available, a Nintex Workflow 2013 of this custom action, that will allow you to get your item attachments into Base64. This is not backward compatible. If you’re moving from using this action in 2010 to 2013, I’d recommend you remove that action from the 2010 workflow before exporting […]
There are some web services that expose web methods that I can’t use via the Call Web Service action in Nintex Workflow. Usually, it’s those methods that have “out” parameters, but it can also happen for those methods that use non primitive types as parameters. Below is an example :http://<server>/<site>/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx?op=AddAttachment I honestly don’t know the […]
From our previous article – Nintex Workflow – Workflow Re-use without Templates and Snippets – Part 2, we now have a defined piece of work that needs to be done, and we believe that it is something that can be reused by other workflows. We have built a workflow that will perform this functionality in […]