When you copy an item in SharePoint to another list, you lose the workflow history. The main reason, is that the workflows that ran on the original item, don’t exist in the destination list. Workflow history is linked to a specific workflow instance. The process described in this post, is about getting the workflow history from an original item and specific […]
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 from a company will arrive […]
I’ve talked about the Log in the History List action when using Nintex Workflow on-premise and how to extend it by building a User Defined Action so that you can log a lot more than what the action allows. This post is about doing something similar using the Nintex Workflow for Office 365 product. There are a number of reason […]
In SharePoint, storing data in a multitude of lists is common practice. Getting at that data from a workflow process is always important. There are a number of ways you can do this with Nintex Workflow for Office 365. The one I focused on here is what I found to be the simplest way. Using a Set Workflow Variable action […]
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 this seems a little odd, […]
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 is to have a scheduled […]
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, it’s 3 clicks away. Who […]
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 see from the workflow design […]
In the past, I’ve been asked for the best way to have an approval form where some more information will be required from the approver. Rather than InfoPath (which I’ve generally had headaches with) or developing a custom form in C# to extend the Flexi Task action form, I’ve nudged people towards using the Request Data action or the Assign […]
If you’ve been using Nintex Workflow for quite some time, you’ll find that your NintexWorkflowHistory list can grow quite rapidly. There are some limitations in SharePoint in regards to performance of lists that grow to be quite large. The NintexWorkflowHistory list will inherit these limitations. With Nintex Workflow 2010 and now Nintex Workflow 2013, you can create other history lists […]