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 […]
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 […]