The question of Empty Date fields in SharePoint and how to use them in Nintex Workflow seems to come up often. It’s something I probably should have posted about before, but it kept slipping my mind. Today, I got asked by a user if i could write something about it, since it has the potential of […]
Nintex Workflow comes with a Create Site Collection action. In most scenarios, that would be sufficient. But there are occassions where you need to it be a little more dynamic. In the current action, the Template property of this action is a drop down selection which you need to pick at design time. If you […]
Here are some common User Defined Actions you may come across a need for. I’m keeping this post short and sweet, as it’s just to provde the User Defined Action files and they are fairly straight forward. 1. Get First Date of the Next Month 2. Get First Date of This Month 3. Get Last […]
Starting a workflow via PowerShell can be a useful function and can speed up a lot of work. I’ve created a couple of scripts to help out. The first one is a script to start a SharePoint workflow, using the SharePoint object model. The second one is a script to start a Nintex Workflow, using […]
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. […]
Over the years, I’ve come across the issue of the missing workflow status column a number of time and I really had no idea why that happened. On one list, a workflow would run and the column would get created and updated, while on another list, the column would never appear. In all my cases, […]
This is Part 5 from the previous post on PowerShell Find Workflows that contain a Specific Action Part 4. Added a new operation that looks in all the workflows to find those that have Verbose Logging enabled. Operation is : FindVerboseLogging Changes to the PowerShell Script The way to export and publish a workflow is via a […]
Speaking with a few people recently, there came about the question of knowing what Nintex Workflows were running at a particular point in time, or still running for that matter. To the bat-cave Robin!!! I mean, to SQL Management Studio. Tinkering around with the Nintex Workflow database, I whipped up a SQL query that I […]
The Nintex Workflow convert document action, allows you to convert documents such as Word, RTF, Web Pages and Word 2003 XML into PDF format. This action is only available with the Enterprise edition of Nintex Workflow and requires Word Automation Services be enabled and configured on your SharePoint 2010 environment. Configuring Word Automation Services Navigate to […]
You may have encountered some “Workflow Infrastructure” messages in your SharePoint logs that state : “Declarative workflows cannot automatically start if the triggering action was performed by System Account”. There are two possibilities for this that come to mind. You are logged in as a System Account and you caused an event that would normally […]