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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
On a recent project I worked on, I came up with a few reusable pieces of Workflow logic that I built into User Defined Actions. The original task was to design workflows whose important components were build around bank interest rates, savings and loans. Savings Giving a starting amount, an annual interest rate and a […]
There is an interesting control that you can use in Nintex Forms called the Repeating Section. It gives users who are filling in the form, the ability to dynamically add extra entries. One example of this, would be a dynamic Annual Leave request form. Each entry in the Repeating Section would contain a Start Date, End […]
For those that haven’t seen this, I wrote a post about a Smart Workflow. It was a workflow that utilized a State Machine and various states, to keep track of what it had done last. Then, if you happen to terminate the workflow and restart it, it would figure out roughly where it was, and […]
For a mini-project I’m working on, I had a need to convert a number to it’s binary format. From those that don’t know what that means, it’s converting a numerical value into it’s 1’s and 0’s version. eg. 1 = 1 2 = 10 3 = 11 100 = 1100100 Feel free to read more […]
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 […]
Verbose Logging is a feature that is fairly new and is slowly being picked up by the masses. Where as before, workflow designers would use the Log in the History List action to log all the information they wanted to see for debugging, now they can enable the Verbose Logging functionality and be provided with […]
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 […]