A huge thanks to Mike Fitzmaurice who put me onto this little nugget of information. You can find Mike on Twitter. With Office 365, when you install the Nintex Workflow for Office 365 app, you’ll find that creating workflows for lists is very easy. But I really wanted to be able to make Site Workflows […]
If you haven’t seen Nintex Workflow for Office 365, you should definitely check it out. There’s a number of features that are very impressive. One that stands out when you start using it, is this button on the ribbon called “Store”. What is the Store? In a nutshell, the Store will expose new actions that […]
Let me start with, Electronic Signatures and Digital Signatures are completely different beasts. Digital Signatures can be complex, secure, validatable (is that word? 🙂 ) and if you are using Nintex Workflow, you can find one way of using digital signatures with the CoSign product by ARX. Check out the work that has been done around […]
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 […]
When clicking on the Nintex Forms button on a SharePont List or Library, you will inevitably getting the following type of form : If you’re happy with that, that’s great. Or, if you work for a company called “Nintex Forms” and your color scheme is orange-ish, then the default form is perfect for you. But […]
This is going to be another one of those Nintex related posts where people will be asking me – “Isn’t it easier to just create a custom Inline Function with a little C# code???”. I’ve been asked atleast 5 times over the last year, if it’s possible to get the name of the document set that […]
For those that haven’t used SharePoint Document Sets before, here’s a good introduction to it : Introduction to Document Sets In Nintex Workflow, to query for documents in a document set, you use a Query List action. I’ve found the easiest way to do this, is to add a Query List action to your workflow, configure […]
Noone wants to get stuck with working late because Lumbergh finds that you didn’t add a cover sheet to your TPS Report. Well, in comes Nintex Forms to the rescue. You can have a form the Initech employees can fill in for their cover sheet. Once you have a simple list for your TPS Reports, […]
Nintex Workflow User Defined Actions have 3 icons that a user can see. If you don’t know what a User Defined Action is, take a look here: What is a User Defined Action Normal Icon – 49×49 pixels Warning Icon – 49×49 pixels Toolbar Icon – 30×30 pixels When you design a User Defined […]
Reusablility is one of the key features of Nintex Workflow and what makes it stand out. When it comes to building workflows, the aim is to automate some business logic so that employees spend more time on more important business tasks. You may have a complex business scenario that is quite laborious, but if you can […]