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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
The Create Site action in Nintex Workflow is a great action and you can create a site based off a site template. The Site Template can be selected at design time. But there are certain situations where you don’t know the template at design time. The way to do it would be via a web […]
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 […]
If you schedule a Nintex Workflow on the last day of the month and set it to run monthly, you’ll find that on the following month, it will probably not run on the last day. That is because it currently adds 30 days to current date and that’s the next schedule. For some people, that’s […]
For those that haven’t seen this, I wrote a post about a Smart Workflow. It was a workflow that utilized a State Machine and various states, to keep track of what it had done last. Then, if you happen to terminate the workflow and restart it, it would figure out roughly where it was, and […]
SharePoint generally won’t let you run 2 instances of the same workflow on the same item. I know that Vadim, why are you telling me something that we all know??? Did you know that if you are running an instance of “WorkflowA” on an item, and you then go and make a change to the […]