I wanted to take a stab at a different type of post today. Most of my posts are around how to solve specific problems or how to achieve a particular piece of workflow logic in a reusable fashion. Todays post actually takes a number of my previous posts and puts them together, showing you how […]
Calculating the size of a Nintex Workflow collection variable is not hard to do. There is a Collection Operation action and it can be configured to do a Count on a collection variable and store the result in a Number variable. To get half of that number is also quite simple, in that there is […]
In my eyes, I generally don’t like to develop something if there’s already software that does it. Why reinvent the wheel? But one thing that I find is a must in the software I look at, is that it can be extended through code. Nintex Workflow can be extended a number of ways. In fact, most […]
Finding the position of a piece of text in another piece of text is something I’ve had a need to do for a while now. It looks like someone else has had that requirement. So I put together a very simple Inline Function. fn-InStr This inline function will take 3 parameters 1. Input text 2. […]
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 […]
Had a moment of insanity and completely forget that Nintex Workflow had a fn-Power inline function. That, together with choosing not to write some code to make an inline function or a custom action, I decided to make a UDA that would perform a Math Power calculation. Dumb?…oh yes. But hey, I went to the […]
The Inline Function functionality has really opened up Nintex Workflow design. You can use any of the out-of-the-box inline functions (look up the Nintex Workflow help – get it at http://connect.nintex.com). But the really exciting thing is that Microsoft provides other static methods that you can add to Nintex Workflow and do even more in […]
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 […]
Interesting title for a blog entry right? Inline Functions in Nintex Workflow really enhance the product, without having to go to the complexity of creating a custom Nintex Workflow action. Granted, this only works with static methods that return a value such as a string or integer. The one caveat, is that you may need […]
Earlier last year, I was curious about performing some Trigonometry calculations in a Nintex workflow and was wondering how to do it. Out of the box, there didn’t really seem to be an easy way to do it. I have 2 options. 1. Create a custom action that performed them. 2. Build the algorithm into […]