There’s not much to say about this post. I had been asked about pulling our Query String values from a Nintex Form. It’s actually not that hard. The following is a little code that you can put into the Custom Javascript section of the form settings. In the above example, I’m looking for a name,value […]
If you haven’t seen Nintex Forms, go and either download a trial or a hosted trial. You’ll find that if you have any number of fields in your list and generate a Nintex Form for it, it will automatically generate a visually appealing, user friendly form. It’s a very quick and easy way to have […]
Cookies are a common technology used when filling in forms online (and they have other uses). I found a common theme in some of the forms I was designing using Nintex Forms and I thought I’d utilize cookies to store some information on the client machine, so that the user wouldn’t have to retype the same thing […]
Some of you may be using the “Set Workflow Status” action in Nintex Workflow, which allows you to create custom workflow statuses (statii?). I just had a need to find out what status codes sharePoint thinks are available for my workflow, since there seemed to be a mismatch between the status I was setting, and […]
In the past, I’ve been asked for the best way to have an approval form where some more information will be required from the approver. Rather than InfoPath (which I’ve generally had headaches with) or developing a custom form in C# to extend the Flexi Task action form, I’ve nudged people towards using the Request […]
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 […]
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 […]
Starting a workflow via PowerShell can be a useful function and can speed up a lot of work. I’ve created a couple of scripts to help out. The first one is a script to start a SharePoint workflow, using the SharePoint object model. The second one is a script to start a Nintex Workflow, using […]
Finding the position of a piece of text in another piece of text is something I’ve had a need to do for a while now. It looks like someone else has had that requirement. So I put together a very simple Inline Function. fn-InStr This inline function will take 3 parameters 1. Input text 2. […]