This is the first post, post Nintex InspireX. I was actually quite surprised at how awesome the first InspireX event was last year. But this one was so much better. The only thing I would do to make it better, is make it an extra day. I felt like I had no time to breathe, […]
Ok, so people have been asking for this, so I decided to put it together. But, having said that, I’m doing this while on vacation, so as a result… I want you all to go and donate to some good charity. If it’s Autism related, even better!! 1 in 68 kids in the US. That’s […]
Parsing collections is often used in Nintex Workflows. I showed it here in an old blog post – Iterate through Related Collections. But what came up recently, was reverse parsing collections. That was an interesting challenge, since what I didn’t want to do, is use a Loop action. Why? Because a Loop is affected by Safe […]
This comes up fairly regularly, so it was a good time to post about this. Especially after an exciting and inspiring Nintex InspireX User Conference. I’m talking about the ability for a workflow to query a SharePoint calendar, and get recurring events. There was a lot of searching online to find a way to create […]
Although figuring out the file type can be as simple as checking the content type, sometimes that doesn’t give us the data we need. In this case, any document can be uploaded to a document library in SharePoint and I have a need to figure out the file type. The easiest way I can think […]
I really enjoy building out processes that not many people think of doing, even manually, but having an automated process can really save a company money. This process came from the fact that many companies are sending a lot of employees to the Worldwide Partner Conference ’15 in Orlando. Since a lot of the employees […]
Between June 1st-3rd 2015, DocuSign is running their Momentum conference in London. One of my colleagues, Sean Fiene (a fellow Technical Evangelist) got to attend the San Francisco version of that conference a few months ago. This time around, Nintex is a Gold Spnsor, along with a company named Smartsheet. Now I had never heard of Smartsheet, […]
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 […]
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 […]