It sounds like this might be difficult, but as it turns out, it’s really not bad at all. What we are trying to do here, is get access to the urls of the documents that were attached to an Item or Task in SharePoint. In fact, building a Nintex Workflow User Defined Action (UDA) to do […]
SharePoint 2013 (Enterprise edition) comes with Excel Services. One of the lesser known pieces of functionality, is the Excel Services web service. More information on it can be found here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ms494732(v=office.14).aspx Since this is an ASMX web service, it can be called from Nintex Workflow using the Call Web Service action. This web service […]
Some of you may have noticed that SharePoint doesn’t give you the option to start workflows on Surveys. The workaround is to have a scheduled workflow that periodically checks for new survey responses. Designing that into a Nintex Workflow is actually quite simple… as with most things with Nintex Workflow. Initial Requirements Since the plan […]
This weeks challenge I set myself, was to create a reusable way of converting a SharePoint list of items into a CSV format. I want to make it reusable, because this is something I’ve talked about with a bunch of people and everyone will have different list structure. Redesigning a workflow for each list makes […]
A lot of this information is described in the video attached to this post, so I won’t go through every single bit of it. Since I’ve been discussing the Exchange Out of Office functionality recently, I thought I needed to implemend a Nintex Workflow User Defined Action that would talk to Exchange and pull out […]
In a discussion, I found that copying a SharePoint Calendar event between calendars in SharePoint using a workflow would fail. For some reason, it didn’t think the destination calendar had the same fields. Support for that will be coming in a future release of Nintex Workflow. But for now, we can take the long way. […]
The beginning of a beautiful Site Administrators page :). Over the years, I’ve been trying to get some reusable workflows or pages so that it makes it easier for me to do any type of administration work that I need to do. Although there is a Long Term Delegation page as part of Nintex Workflow, […]
RSS or Rich Site Summary has been around for many years now. It’s still used now as a way to summarize and distribute new updates to sites, and present news. Since RSS is a simple XML format, parsing that data isn’t really that hard. It can be easily done with Nintex Workflow. As you can […]
This is going to be another one of those Nintex related posts where people will be asking me – “Isn’t it easier to just create a custom Inline Function with a little C# code???”. I’ve been asked atleast 5 times over the last year, if it’s possible to get the name of the document set that […]
For those that haven’t used SharePoint Document Sets before, here’s a good introduction to it : Introduction to Document Sets In Nintex Workflow, to query for documents in a document set, you use a Query List action. I’ve found the easiest way to do this, is to add a Query List action to your workflow, configure […]