It sounds like this might be difficult, but as it turns out, it’s really not bad at all. What we are trying to do here, is get access to the urls of the documents that were attached to an Item or Task in SharePoint. In fact, building a Nintex Workflow User Defined Action (UDA) to do […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
If anyone has tried to log a big message to the Workflow History, you’ll find that the some of it is truncated. This is because the message is stored in a Single Line of Text field in SharePoint. This field type has a limit to how much it can hold. There are times when you […]
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 […]