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 […]
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, […]
As I work through a process of automating my blog announcements using Nintex Workflow, I’ve hit a few snags. First was the previous post – Nintex Workflow URL Encoding User Defined Action. I’ll be sharing my findings in automating this process through some posts on here, and hopefully breaking it up into User Defined Actions […]
When using the Assign a Flexi Task action, one of the “behavior” options is “All must agree on a specific outcome”. A good scenario here, is if you have a Project Proposal, and everyone who is assigned the task must approve the proposal. If someone doesn’t, the it’s a no-go. In the above example, I […]
An interesting topic arose on Nintex Connect, regarding having the same workflow on a number of lists and libraries, and how one would go about updating all of them. This is especially important, given that in the SharePoint 2007, you can’t create a declarative workflow for a Content Type. You could create a workflow, save […]