It appears that there is no easy way to terminate a bunch of workflows in SharePoint. Scenario A SharePoint List containing many items (eg. 100 items), and each item has an instance of the same workflow running on it. For whatever reason, you need to terminate all the workflows. Your only method of doing this […]
Many people have asked “If a workflow fails, or I need to restart it for whatever reason, can I get it to start at a specific action?”. The answer is usually, “This is not easily possible and you would encounter the same issue if you were using a SharePoint Designer workflow.” So what is so […]
Interesting title for a blog entry right? Inline Functions in Nintex Workflow really enhance the product, without having to go to the complexity of creating a custom Nintex Workflow action. Granted, this only works with static methods that return a value such as a string or integer. The one caveat, is that you may need […]
Earlier last year, I was curious about performing some Trigonometry calculations in a Nintex workflow and was wondering how to do it. Out of the box, there didn’t really seem to be an easy way to do it. I have 2 options. 1. Create a custom action that performed them. 2. Build the algorithm into […]
Part 2 – Nintex Workflow – Update XML Part 2 – Updating InfoPath Forms Having the ability Query XML in Nintex Workflow, using XPath or XSLT to translate it has been a great part of the product, but with the latest release (Build 11000), we can finally Update XML. So to get my head around […]
Since the release of Nintex Workflow (build 11000), we have been given new actions that really make life a lot easier in many ways. Being a developer, whenever a new action appears that mimics some type of code, my interest is peaked. The one that has really got me excited is the Switch action. Not only […]
Time to get back into the blogging, if only to keep my mind fresh and to keep track of what I find in my geeking. After some talks with a friend of mine last night, we decided to check out PostgreSQL, seeing as for a simple application, MSSQL Express was taking up way too much […]
I would love to be proven wrong, but I believe a little used feature of Nintex Reporting, is the Performance Collector. Sure, out of the box it comes with a few counters that it collects, such as memory usage and CPU user, but it can do so much more. The problem is, noone really knows […]
You’ll find this report (or chart) in the Search category of reports. If you go to the Nintex Reporting Report Center it’ll look like this : This is without a doubt, one of my favourite reports that come out-of-the-box. Sounds strange, yes, and you may be asking, why do I care what my users are […]
Nintex Reporting comes with 6 Dashboards out of the box, targeted at specific company roles.1. Implementation Manager2. IT Manager3. Knowledge Manager4. Records Manager5. Search Manager6. System Administrator These dashboards are not only editable, but you can also create custom dashboards, and put on whatever report charts or grids that you feel would be relevant on […]