Today I talked to a customer (Kevin Dunn at DH Pace, Inc.) who had a need to purge some data from the Nintex Workflow History List. The NWAdmin tool helps with purging data from the Nintex Workflow history lists and there’s also a way to do it through the Manage History Lists page in Site […]
If you’ve been using Nintex Workflow for quite some time, you’ll find that your NintexWorkflowHistory list can grow quite rapidly. There are some limitations in SharePoint in regards to performance of lists that grow to be quite large. The NintexWorkflowHistory list will inherit these limitations. With Nintex Workflow 2010 and now Nintex Workflow 2013, you […]
An interesting topic of conversation came up the other day, which was using Nintex Workflow in a Database creation request list in SharePoint. The idea was to have a list in SharePoint where a user would create an item by filling in some form. It would be a user requesting a database be generated for them […]
Inline Functions are a great extension to Nintex Workflow. They open up the ability to do some amazing string manipulation. But what happens when they don’t work? Why don’t they work? Scenario 1 A text variable (textSample) has the value “Hello world” and you want to replace “world” with “universe”. You can use a Build String action […]
It seems that getting information out of a CSV file and into SharePoint is a common request. I’m sure there a number of ways to get this done, but this post will be about how to parse CSV files using Nintex Workflow. We first start off with a simple SharePoint list that contains a First […]
The Nintex Workflow Set Item Permissions action allows you to give certain permissions to users for the current item the workflow is running on. The out-of-the-box action usually shows you the normal permissions: Full Control Design Contribute Read Limited Access Read Only Remove But there are occasions when you need more specialized permissions. For example, what […]
When a Nintex workflow runs in SharePoint, it can have one of a number of states. Below is a list of the out-of-the-box SharePoint workflow states. Status Internal Status ID Description Not Started 0 The workflow has not started. Failed on Start 1 Indicates that the workflow encountered an error when it started. In Progress […]
Nintex Workflow comes with a concept called Safe Looping, which is enabled by default. Safe Looping was created to protect the SharePoint environment from a workflow which goes into a infinite loop and inadvertantly affects the SharePoint environment in a negative way (high CPU usage). The way it does this, is during the process of publishing […]
What is XSL? XSL stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language. It is used to transform an XML document into something else that is more user friendly. A most common practice is transform XML into HTML. In a Nintex Workflow scenario, there are a number of situations where you have an XML structure. The most obvious one […]
In contrast to the Nintex Workflow Request Data action, which only supports getting data from a single user, the Assign a ToDo Task can assign tasks to many users. Often, you may have a single Assign a ToDo Task action, assigning tasks to several people. For this example, lets say it’s 3 people. This action […]