There is a common property in Nintex Workflow called Current Time. This is actually something inherited from SharePoint. There are also two other item properties to do with time, Created and Modified. All of these properties only give you the hours and minutes for the time, not the number of seconds. Sometimes, the seconds are […]
In Nintex Forms, you can have a “Save” button and also a “Save and Submit” button Have you ever wondered what the difference is? Well, this post should shed some light on this. VIDEO Firstly, the main difference is really visible when it comes to Task forms. If you have a Nintex Workflow that assigns […]
Nintex Workflow 3.0.7.0 and 2.3.13.0 (English edition) was released in early May 2014. The video below talks about some of the new features that are now available. What is not shown in the video, is that there is support now for SharePoint Server 2013 SP1 and also Internet Explorer 11. To download the latest build: Nintex […]
Recently and quite often in the past few months, I’ve seen the request where a Nintex Workflow starts when an item is created. As it is running, the item is modified and there is a requirement that a new instance of the workflow starts. Unfortunately, in SharePoint, you can’t have multiple instances of the same […]
I wanted to take a stab at a different type of post today. Most of my posts are around how to solve specific problems or how to achieve a particular piece of workflow logic in a reusable fashion. Todays post actually takes a number of my previous posts and puts them together, showing you how […]
Calculating the size of a Nintex Workflow collection variable is not hard to do. There is a Collection Operation action and it can be configured to do a Count on a collection variable and store the result in a Number variable. To get half of that number is also quite simple, in that there is […]
For a while, I didn’t think there was an easy way to move an Active Directory user to a different Organizational Unit (OU) using Nintex Workflow. I thought that I’d need to write some code, maybe a web service or a custom action. Well, it turns out there’s a really easy way to do it using […]
Part 1 of this series was about using Action Sets in Nintex Workflow, and it focused on making your workflows look nicer, so that it’s easier to navigate the workflow and also how you can put actions into an Action Set and then save them as Snippet for later reuse. Part 2 is about how […]
In my eyes, I generally don’t like to develop something if there’s already software that does it. Why reinvent the wheel? But one thing that I find is a must in the software I look at, is that it can be extended through code. Nintex Workflow can be extended a number of ways. In fact, most […]
Assigning tasks to users, sending out reminders, having escalation of tasks via delegation, these are all great concepts and available in Nintex Workflow out of the box. Although waiting on users to respond is one way of building your workflow process and is actually the most common, there is another concept to look into. It […]