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 […]
Assigning tasks to users, sending out reminders, having escalation of tasks via delegation, these are all great concepts and available in Nintex Workflow out of the box. Although waiting on users to respond is one way of building your workflow process and is actually the most common, there is another concept to look into. It […]
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 […]
SharePoint 2013 (Enterprise edition) comes with Excel Services. One of the lesser known pieces of functionality, is the Excel Services web service. More information on it can be found here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ms494732(v=office.14).aspx Since this is an ASMX web service, it can be called from Nintex Workflow using the Call Web Service action. This web service […]
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 […]
A lot of this information is described in the video attached to this post, so I won’t go through every single bit of it. Since I’ve been discussing the Exchange Out of Office functionality recently, I thought I needed to implemend a Nintex Workflow User Defined Action that would talk to Exchange and pull out […]
In a discussion, I found that copying a SharePoint Calendar event between calendars in SharePoint using a workflow would fail. For some reason, it didn’t think the destination calendar had the same fields. Support for that will be coming in a future release of Nintex Workflow. But for now, we can take the long way. […]
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, […]
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 […]