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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
After many moons, I finally decided to sit down and automate some work that I regulary did manually. One of the steps required a url to be encoded so I could post it to another site. There’s no action in Nintex Workflow to encode a url this way, so the option was to either develop […]
Some of you may be aware of a post from Microsoft that describes what is and isn’t allowed for text in Site names, Folder names and File names : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905231 I thought it would be a good bit of logic to make into a User Defined Action in Nintex Workflow as it would make it very […]
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 […]
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 […]