When you copy an item in SharePoint to another list, you lose the workflow history. The main reason, is that the workflows that ran on the original item, don’t exist in the destination list. Workflow history is linked to a specific workflow instance. The process described in this post, is about getting the workflow history from […]
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 […]
When you have a large number of items in a list and you need to query them, sometimes querying the whole lot using the Query List action is not the best practice. Depending on the number of items, you could potentially get a timeout on the workflow that will process each one. The best practice maybe […]
On a recent project I worked on, I came up with a few reusable pieces of Workflow logic that I built into User Defined Actions. The original task was to design workflows whose important components were build around bank interest rates, savings and loans. Savings Giving a starting amount, an annual interest rate and a […]
Thanks to the user on Nintex Connect named “Dierk”, it’s quite simple to create a text file in a document library using Nintex Workflow. The great thing is, you don’t just have to create a flat text file, you can also create other files that are also text based. Eg. CSV (comma separated values file […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]