Nintex Workflow comes with a concept called Safe Looping, which is enabled by default. Safe Looping was created to protect the SharePoint environment from a workflow which goes into a infinite loop and inadvertantly affects the SharePoint environment in a negative way (high CPU usage). The way it does this, is during the process of publishing […]
The Create Site action in Nintex Workflow is a great action and you can create a site based off a site template. The Site Template can be selected at design time. But there are certain situations where you don’t know the template at design time. The way to do it would be via a web […]
When you have a large number of items in a list and you need to query them, sometimes querying the whole lot using the Query List action is not the best practice. Depending on the number of items, you could potentially get a timeout on the workflow that will process each one. The best practice maybe […]
On a recent project I worked on, I came up with a few reusable pieces of Workflow logic that I built into User Defined Actions. The original task was to design workflows whose important components were build around bank interest rates, savings and loans. Savings Giving a starting amount, an annual interest rate and a […]
There is an interesting control that you can use in Nintex Forms called the Repeating Section. It gives users who are filling in the form, the ability to dynamically add extra entries. One example of this, would be a dynamic Annual Leave request form. Each entry in the Repeating Section would contain a Start Date, End […]
For a mini-project I’m working on, I had a need to convert a number to it’s binary format. From those that don’t know what that means, it’s converting a numerical value into it’s 1’s and 0’s version. eg. 1 = 1 2 = 10 3 = 11 100 = 1100100 Feel free to read more […]
Had a moment of insanity and completely forget that Nintex Workflow had a fn-Power inline function. That, together with choosing not to write some code to make an inline function or a custom action, I decided to make a UDA that would perform a Math Power calculation. Dumb?…oh yes. But hey, I went to the […]
If anyone has tried to log a big message to the Workflow History, you’ll find that the some of it is truncated. This is because the message is stored in a Single Line of Text field in SharePoint. This field type has a limit to how much it can hold. There are times when you […]
SharePoint generally won’t let you run 2 instances of the same workflow on the same item. I know that Vadim, why are you telling me something that we all know??? Did you know that if you are running an instance of “WorkflowA” on an item, and you then go and make a change to the […]
As with any design or development products, inevitably the longer you spend on them, the more you learn how to use the features. This also means that your solutions will become more elaborate. In the case of Nintex Workflow, does this mean that you start to over-engineer your workflows? Yes and no. The goal of […]