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 […]
There are probably numerous ways of getting a list of Site Admins. I found one way would be to call the SiteData.asmx web service, provided in SharePoint. More specifically, the GetSite web method. When looking at calling a web method in a web service, pay special attention to the parameters the method takes. In this […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
With the abilty to query multiple values from an XML document or a SharePoint List using Nintex Workflow actions, a number of people have come to me and asked for a nice way to iterate through each collection and get corresponding values from each collection. One of the more common business scenarios is trying to […]
Download Download the Workflow : Click here to download Note: This workflow was built in Nintex Workflow 2.3.3.0. If you are running an earlier build, it may not import. Introduction After using the Nintex Workflow Query LDAP action to retrieve some information, I ended up getting it in a distinguished name format: CN=wombat,OU=Users,OU=US,OU=Support,DC=alphas,DC=vadimtabakman,DC=com I needed […]
When using the Assign a Flexi Task action, one of the “behavior” options is “All must agree on a specific outcome”. A good scenario here, is if you have a Project Proposal, and everyone who is assigned the task must approve the proposal. If someone doesn’t, the it’s a no-go. In the above example, I […]