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 […]
There are probably numerous ways of getting a list of Site Admins. I found one way would be to call the SiteData.asmx web service, provided in SharePoint. More specifically, the GetSite web method. When looking at calling a web method in a web service, pay special attention to the parameters the method takes. In this […]
Today I talked to a customer (Kevin Dunn at DH Pace, Inc.) who had a need to purge some data from the Nintex Workflow History List. The NWAdmin tool helps with purging data from the Nintex Workflow history lists and there’s also a way to do it through the Manage History Lists page in Site […]
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 […]
An interesting topic of conversation came up the other day, which was using Nintex Workflow in a Database creation request list in SharePoint. The idea was to have a list in SharePoint where a user would create an item by filling in some form. It would be a user requesting a database be generated for them […]
Inline Functions are a great extension to Nintex Workflow. They open up the ability to do some amazing string manipulation. But what happens when they don’t work? Why don’t they work? Scenario 1 A text variable (textSample) has the value “Hello world” and you want to replace “world” with “universe”. You can use a Build String action […]
It seems that getting information out of a CSV file and into SharePoint is a common request. I’m sure there a number of ways to get this done, but this post will be about how to parse CSV files using Nintex Workflow. We first start off with a simple SharePoint list that contains a First […]
With the release of build 1.2 of Nintex Forms, we have the introduction of the new Rules Engine. It adds an extra level of control to your forms that you didn’t have before. Well, you sort of did, using Javascript, but honestly, who wants to write a bunch of JS code when you can everything […]