The prevous post, we spoke about how to use XML as a way of storing more complex data within the instance of the Nintex workflow. As you start to query more data, do calculations or manipulate data, your data structure has the potential to get more complex. Here, we will look over how best to […]
I’m an old school developer, so I’ll admit, I do like XML. Even though JSON is the flavor of the day these days. A little while ago, Nintex released XML actions for Nintex Workflow Cloud. The first thing that came to mind, is a great way to store more complex data inside a workflow instance. […]
The idea behind this process, is that we want to have an order Nintex form that has a repeating section with order items in it. Those order items, we want to appear in another list. An Order Items list. There are a few caveats here. We want to make sure that if you go back […]
Ok, so people have been asking for this, so I decided to put it together. But, having said that, I’m doing this while on vacation, so as a result… I want you all to go and donate to some good charity. If it’s Autism related, even better!! 1 in 68 kids in the US. That’s […]
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 […]
This comes up fairly regularly, so it was a good time to post about this. Especially after an exciting and inspiring Nintex InspireX User Conference. I’m talking about the ability for a workflow to query a SharePoint calendar, and get recurring events. There was a lot of searching online to find a way to create […]
When you copy an item in SharePoint to another list, you lose the workflow history. The main reason, is that the workflows that ran on the original item, don’t exist in the destination list. Workflow history is linked to a specific workflow instance. The process described in this post, is about getting the workflow history from […]
One of the best things about being in IT, is problem solving. I do enjoy coming up with solutions to problems. Todays, was around getting Nintex Workflow to parse XE.com data. If you don’t know what XE.com is, it’s an online currency converter. Given one currency, it can convert it to any number of other currencies. Quite […]
An interesting scenario came by my desk, where someone wanted to take attachments from the current item, move them to a document library in SharePoint, and then delete those attachments, so that there weren’t duplicate files. A great scenario that Nintex Workflow is perfect for. This is scenario that I think many of you have […]
It sounds like this might be difficult, but as it turns out, it’s really not bad at all. What we are trying to do here, is get access to the urls of the documents that were attached to an Item or Task in SharePoint. In fact, building a Nintex Workflow User Defined Action (UDA) to do […]