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 […]
From our previous article – Nintex Workflow – Workflow Re-use without Templates and Snippets – Part 1, we have a SharePoint List that has a text field with semi-colon delimited colors, a multi-value lookup field to a colors SharePoint List, and we have also create another list called “Reusable Workflow List”. The Key to a […]
Most workflow designers will create workflows to fulfill a specific business requirement. Examples of these, are the template workflows that are available to you when you go to create a new workflow using the Nintex Workflow designer (eg. Human Resources : Annual Leave template to fulfill the requirement of your staff who want to apply […]
I came across an entertaining Flow Chart for NHL Suspension. Down Goes Brown – The NHL Suspension Flow Chart So I thought I’d spend 15 mins whipping it up in a workflow. This way, if someone decides to use it in a SharePoint environment, they can :). It was fun for a laugh while watching […]
I have found that many people are interested in not only starting a workflow as soon as a document or list item is created, but also to run a workflow over a number of items in another list or document library. You have 2 options here.1. Create a workflow that performs all the logic for […]