I’m going to keep this one short. No screenshots.. Everything is explained in the video. The aim of this scenario, is that you have a workflow that can fail, but you have no way of preventing that. Certain actions don’t have Error Handling in them, so you need to do something about it. This process lets you have a parent […]
This interesting question came up on the Nintex Community – Making the workflow wait for one of 4 fields to change. Since the Wait for Item Update action in Nintex Workflow only supports one condition, how do build logic into our workflow that can check multiple conditions? To get around the limitation of the Wait for Item Update action (single […]
Although figuring out the file type can be as simple as checking the content type, sometimes that doesn’t give us the data we need. In this case, any document can be uploaded to a document library in SharePoint and I have a need to figure out the file type. The easiest way I can think of, is to check the […]
Although the Nintex Workflow Collection Operation action has a Remove Duplicates option, it removes the duplicates, but keeps the original. So if you have something like this: 1,2,2,3,4,4,5 You result would be : 1,2,3,4,5 What I want, is for the duplicates and their originals to be removed. Resulting in this : 1,3,5 (I don’t want 2 and 4, because they […]
Recently and quite often in the past few months, I’ve seen the request where a Nintex Workflow starts when an item is created. As it is running, the item is modified and there is a requirement that a new instance of the workflow starts. Unfortunately, in SharePoint, you can’t have multiple instances of the same workflow running at the same […]
I wanted to take a stab at a different type of post today. Most of my posts are around how to solve specific problems or how to achieve a particular piece of workflow logic in a reusable fashion. Todays post actually takes a number of my previous posts and puts them together, showing you how it’s possible to build out […]
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 would be the ability to […]
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 behaves a little differently to […]
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 a users out-of-office settings. That […]
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 generating headaches for many people. […]