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Hi Folks,I was working an issue thios morning and came across some redundant options on how to set up some controls to be conditionally disabled. After a little experimentation and referencing a solution by @cassymfreeman at this link. I came up with the following three solutions that successfully did the job.cho_AbsenceType == "Leave" || cho_AbsenceType == "Sick"or(equals(cho_AbsenceType,"Leave"),equals(cho_AbsenceType,"Sick")cho_AbsenceType != ""I was wondering if there are any practical differences between the three solutions or is it just dealer's choice.Thanks and regards,Patrick

I have seen a few posts around this but haven't been able to find where anyone knows how to do this. I have flexi tasks going to management and I am giving them the option to use the lazy approval functionality. Sometimes, the may require additional information prior to the heir approval so one of the responses sends another flexi task back to the requestor for more info. I would LOVE a way for the approver to add the comments to the lazy approval so that the requestor knows what additional info is needed. And populate into the "additional comments" field in the list? Anyone have any suggestions on this?You ‌?Thanks in advance!

Hi,I'm working with state machine and flexi tasks.The state machine looks like this:State A: First Level of approvalState B: Second Level of approvalState C: Review the initial requestIn the state A, the first level approver can approve, reject or request a review. If the approver's outcome is to request a review, the state machine will kick it to the state C, which has a Request Review action for the initiator. After reviewing the request and maybe correcting some mistakes, the initiator will kick it back to state A for the first level approver.It is ok so far, but I would like to send the comments of the Request Review action for the first level approver when kicking it back to state A.Any ideas on how to that?Thanks!Best regards,William C.  

how can i go about creating a pop up window in the middle of a workflow to call an api for authentication? this api will verify the user and return a verified or not verified value. based on this value, the workflow will do different things. i am using sharepoint 2016

I have been using Nintex Responsive forms for a while now and have used the Look up functions on various forms. For some reason I am not able to get the result I was expecting when doing the following lookup("LIST NAME", "ID", parseLookup(NAMED CONTROL, false), "COLUMN NAME") So the image below in the first picture I am doing a look up from a SP list "Cost Centre Number" which works okay and I can select from the options given, then in the second image I want to show the Cost Centre Number once I have selected the cost centre name from the drop down using the lookup formula as shown above, this has worked loads of times on previous forms but for some reason which I can not work out I get the #value! Any suggestions!

I am trying to get the display value for a date to be set in the format 'yyyy-MM-dd'. I have tried manipulating the 'String format' option on the control settings but with no luck. Any ideas?

Hi all I am trying to import file from our Dev to Prod but i'm getting below error message.Searching ULS logs for this Correlation ID I found these messages. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Failed to retrieve file content. Error: An XML declaration is required for all non-UTF8 documents.. Stack trace: at System.Xml.EncodingStreamWrapper.ReadBOMEncoding(Byte b1, Byte b2, Byte b3, Byte b4, Boolean notOutOfBand, Int32& preserve) at System.Xml.EncodingStreamWrapper.ReadBOMEncoding(Boolean notOutOfBand) at System.Xml.EncodingStreamWrapper..ctor(Stream stream, Encoding encoding) at System.Xml.XmlUTF8TextReader.SetInput(Stream stream, Encoding encoding, XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas quotas, OnXmlDictionaryReaderClose onClose) at System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlObjectSerializer.ReadObject(Stream stream) at Nintex.Forms.NfUtilities.DeserializeObjectWithDataContractSerializer(String xml, Type type) at Nintex.Forms.NfUtilities.Des

I am new to Nintex. I have a SharePoint list with 4 different columns.  On my Nintex form I have drop downs from that SharePoint list, Category & Item. Once the Category is chosen certain items populate from that choice and once you select the item I need the item number and unit of measure to populate automatically. How do I go about doing this?  I am sorry if this is posted already but I was not able to find it anywhere.  Example of my list is attached.  

I have been seeing this issue with my workflows.  I create a workflow with multiple Flexi tasks.  The workflow works properly and everything is fine.  One day I open the workflow to make a change and one of the Flexi tasks is now a duplicate of the other one.  The original Flexi task is gone and has been replaced with the second one.  I have to rebuild the task and sometimes it happens again.  I am ready to deploy and the users have performed UAT and now it is broke.  HELP!!

We want our SQL database to send an email with a table of countries to a library. The workflow needs to run when the email arrives and reference only the table contents in the email body. Then the workflow will parse apart the table rows and populate a list with the data. I know how to do that part, I've developed this kind of workflow before, but we've always started with a .csv file.What I can't figure out (because I'm still fairly new at HTML) is how to get the workflow to read the email. I found one thread that addresses this specific issue, but it's been dormant for a while and no solid solution given. The respondent suggested they use the Query XML action, save the contents to a "Multi String variable", and then use a Regular Expression to parse the information.Not knowing what to do first, I thought I would start by viewing the source of one of the emails that was forwarded to me. I copied the HTML and pasted it into the Query XML action and clicked on the XPath builder tree vie

We have SharePoint online in our O365 and as of mid April 2019, all of our workflows that send email notifications are no longer triggered except by admins and site owners such as myself. Our offshore developer had to go to the sharepoint app called Workflow Tasks, and granted the users design, which seems to work, but what I want to know is why this happened and how it can be prevented. Did something get updated in Nintex that I don't know about? Our app WAS saying it needed to be updated which i did, but nothing happened to fix the workflows.

My organization has SharePoint 2013 on-premise and utilizing Nintex Workflow 2013. My user is having issue with the workflow outcome still showing Pending even when the task is approved. When viewing the workflow history, i can see that the Status is In Progress and Outcome is Pending but when i click on the Title (Third Level Approval) and view the approval task, it shows that it has been approved (screenshots below). So now the workflow is not proceeding forward and is stuck on this step.Only possible cause I can think of for this behavior is if user clicked on the Save button multiple times during approving, but I am not sure. Any thoughts on the issue?

HelloI am trying to validate a Date|Time with the current Date|Time so that it does not allow the user to submit the request when the selected date & time is less than current date/time.I have tried following rules:FromDate<Current DateThis validation works only if the FromDate is less than CurrentDate but excludes the time.The time needs to be also validated so that a booking cannot be submited when date and time are in the past!formatDate(FromDate, 'dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm') < formatDate(Current Date, 'dd/MM/yyyy')+ formatDate(Current Time, ' HH:mm')This validation does not allow even if you select date/time is well in the future.I am confused

Hi All,I am trying to update the people picker column with sharepoint permission group, and send email to that group using the updated column. but it is not sending any email.It is updating the column, after updating i am loging the column value its returing nothing .please find the screenshots below. SharePoint people picker colum is set to have people and groups values.Regards,Hema

I have a leave request form where the request must be sent to manager for approval based on type of leave. For example annual leave must be approved by line manager and study leave is to be approved by HR manager. Type of leaves is in drop down menu.So far the workflow sends the request to the line manager. I have made some adjucments to the workflow to the required, what I did was: insert "run parallel actions" which derives the "Run if"control. I have set formula for the run if control but it doesnt work.Any advice? Run if controls are minimized. 

How can I tell if a SharePoint group is empty? Is this possible using out of the box actions? I have a flexi task that I am assiging a group to, but I want to make sure the group has users in it before I assign it to the flexi task. Thanks, 

How can I calculate the sum of a repeating field, and display it on a form? Also how can I reference this value in a workflow? For example if the sum is greater than $25,000, send an email for approval to a manager.I solved my own question. The solution was to use the Calculated Value control, and set the sum function to the name of the field I want calculated. For the reference, I created a new list field, and set the Calculated Value control to use this.Message was edited by: jason white

New Nintex user here. The requirement stems from a replacement for workspace in SharePoint. Host has a weekly meeting with documents that need to be review. They are uploaded as an agenda item in a document library. Each new agenda item a meeting date is selected.  Each time a new document is uploaded, I need a page to be created or the item placed in the already exisiting page. I have the sort and group feature on, however, a new page that includes attendee information, disposition, etc needs to also be viewed.(Ex. Article 11 to be reviewed on 5/11/19, Article 12b to be reviewed on 5/12/19, Article 13 to be reviewed on 5/11/19 -- Article 11 and Article 13's document will both be viewed/ sorted into a page created for 5/11/19 Agenda Items. 

When using the Query User Profile workflow action, in a site workflow. I queried user profile by using a vartxtEmployeeNumber variable (value is 1234) to retrieve the user profile. If for example, a user profile in the Active Directory contained Employee Number 1234, it returned it successfully.However, the result differed when using the Query User Profile workflow action in a UDA. It was configured the same. I queried user profile by using a vartxtEmployeeNumber variable (value is 1234) to retrieve the user profile. This time, the workflow action was not able to retrieve the user profile based on the Employee Number of 1234. Note, it works fine when I use a Set Variable workflow action, to apply a prefix in the vartxtEmployeeNumber variable before doing the Query User Profile workflow action. The prefix being "domain1234"My question, is there a difference or limitation or bug/gotcha to be aware of when using Query User Profile workflow action in a UDA vs. in a Workflow? Have you exper

I try to run Nintex workflow with "Copy to SharePoint" action for Infopath form with file attachments. This action should copy Infopath attachments to separate document library. And in case, when status of user, which downloaded documents to Infopath form, is "presense unknown"  (for example, for old forms which has been created by fired users), workflow breaks down with error “Failed to copy item. User cannot be found.”. As I understand, error occurs because this action tries to copy system user fields (CreatedBy and ModifiedBy) to copied document. How to avoid this error during this process?

My workflow is working fine to assign the flexi fast to a SharePoint group,Now members in this group are increased and not all of them should receive the same request.There is a choice column in the list for the user to select to send the request to which department (Dept1, Dept2, Dept3,...).I want to query this department from the submitted form, and accordingly to send the notification to the group belongs to this department.I was thinking to:1- Create a list with two columns, "Department" and "Email to", [email to will be a SharePoint group]2- Query the department name, get its assigned group and assign it to a workflow variable. varMailTo3- Send the flexi task to that variable.I tried the same but could not get the group name, I think I missed something in step 2 or you may advise to a better solutionMany thanks

Hi, I have a managed metadata field that needs to be mandatory if another field is set to No. I've tried to create a rule using isNullOrEmpty on the metadata control Audience=="No" && isNullOrEmpty({Self})but that doesn't work and some research has shown that that function isn't supported on metadata fields. How can i force users to enter something in the metadata field when they select No in the audience field?

Hi guys, I am looking for a solution for like 3 hours, so I hope you can help me.... My ProblemI have already finished the workflow with Nintex and it works very well, but one thing is realy annoying.I want to have a clean form when user neet to approve/reject a task. So i would like to remove "Delete Item", "This workflow task applies to ...", Title and the navigation bar (top and left)My SolutionI tried to place the task form (which I btw. made with InfoPath) on a page and then remove all the stuff includes top and left navigation bar.The problem is, I can not connect the page with the web part on and the actual workflow. Maybe someone can help me with my solution or even a different solution for my issue. Thank you in advanceregards 

We are using SharePoint 2013 with Nintex 2013. I have a form with a panel. Inside the panel I have 2 controls. The target is that if one of these 2 controls in the panel is selected the "description" control will be visible. For the dropdown it is working fine, but not for the checkbox. How can I check in a formula if a checkbox is checked? This is my formula expression at this moment. It returns if panel1 is completed or uncompleted. If(isNullOrEmpty(DropDownControl1), uncompleted', 'completed') I try to extend this expression with something like this but it dont work: If(not(isNullOrEmpty(DropDownControl1)) || CheckBoxControl1, 'completed', 'uncompleted') 

I am experiencing some odd issues with the List Lookup control in Nintex Forms.It appears that if you create a new form for a list that utilizes a single line of text field to store List Lookup values, the List Lookup Control does not display the current value stored in the field. Is this expected behavior?It also appears that if a workflow changes the value in a single line of text field that was previously set by a List Lookup Control in a Nintex Form, the value does not change in the List Lookup Control. It retains the original value set in the form until you open the form and save it. Is this also expected behavior? It doesn't seem as if it should be. I was able to do this without issue when using InfoPath forms. Not sure why there is so much trouble in the Nintex Forms.