Parsing collections is often used in Nintex Workflows. I showed it here in an old blog post – Iterate through Related Collections. But what came up recently, was reverse parsing collections. That was an interesting challenge, since what I didn’t want to do, is use a Loop action. Why? Because a Loop is affected by Safe […]
I’m going to do a quick post today, since it’s time to head home from the awesome Nintex InspireX event in Las Vegas. I had the question of replacing some text in all the values in a Collection. Imagine having a collection with values like: a123 b234 x456 and you want to remove all the […]
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 […]
I really enjoy building out processes that not many people think of doing, even manually, but having an automated process can really save a company money. This process came from the fact that many companies are sending a lot of employees to the Worldwide Partner Conference ’15 in Orlando. Since a lot of the employees […]
Calculating the size of a Nintex Workflow collection variable is not hard to do. There is a Collection Operation action and it can be configured to do a Count on a collection variable and store the result in a Number variable. To get half of that number is also quite simple, in that there is […]
RSS or Rich Site Summary has been around for many years now. It’s still used now as a way to summarize and distribute new updates to sites, and present news. Since RSS is a simple XML format, parsing that data isn’t really that hard. It can be easily done with Nintex Workflow. As you can […]
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 […]
Thanks to the user on Nintex Connect named “Dierk”, it’s quite simple to create a text file in a document library using Nintex Workflow. The great thing is, you don’t just have to create a flat text file, you can also create other files that are also text based. Eg. CSV (comma separated values file […]