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Hi,I had a scenario recently where I had to cancel a workflow on an item so I could run the latest version on it.  Every time I tried to start the new workflow on the item I kept getting an error message: Waiting for item to update.This error only happened on this one item and I couldn't understand why.Eventually I learnt that the person who created the item had since left the business so my guess is that the workflow couldn't update the item because it was waiting for a person that it couldn't find.I'm now concerned that I have a number of existing items running on the same workflow and I'm unsure whether this error could happen again.My question is: If a running workflow hits a point where it is expecting a specific person to update it or there is an action to send an email notification, but the person no longer exists, will the workflow error again?  And if so, is there a smart way to get around this to stop it happening again?Thank you.

I see that the WorkflowInstance table includes a column called WorkflowData. This is null for all entries in our environment.  Is there a way that I can store details about the workflow instance in this field? This would allow me to generate a report that displays workflow instances with relevant business metadata. Otherwise I will need to create my own table and join this with the WorkflowInstance table 

Hi, I have lists rest to extract list name by url (urlResult store the inner name):{Common:WebUrl}/_api/web/lists?$filter=RootFolder/Name%20eq%20%27{WorkflowVariable:urlResult}%27(I see the correct list inner name in history) But for some lists it is working and for other lists I get empty xml.here is the text result when it's working: eb5e9993-d06d-47f0-808b-013c02315ad32019-02-10t09:26:42z_SITEURL_/_api/web/lists(guid'cd97af9c-2d14-4b3b-8304-ad73a0e69a8b')2019-02-10t09:26:42ztrue1000false2016-08-08t07:00:17z00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000rtl0truefalsefalsefalsetrueklit2listfalsefalsefalsecd97af9c-2d14-4b3b-8304-ad73a0e69a8b/_layouts/15/images/itgen.png?rev=23falsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalse33252019-02-07t07:32:44z2019-02-10t09:05:12zsp.data.klit2listitem200falsefalse/******true00bfea71-de22-43b2-a848-c05709900100When it's not working all I get is this ID:  a0f2a409-c723-4674-b337-0e30eba3a3632019-02-10t09:35:32z. I Loged the rest URL in history. when I go to history and click on t

I've seen postings on how to designate the assigned use of a workflow in Nintex for Office 365 but have not been able to find anything on how to do that in Nintex for SharePoint 2013.  When I publish a workflow, I don't see an option to change the "assigned use".  I need to designate some workflows as "development" since we have hit our upper limit for workflows as per our license.  Any help with this would be appreciated!

We have a request from business to extract the repeating section from our form. The form goes back two years and is used daily. The form was not setup to push the repeating section data into another column so we could parse it, and only newer items from a certain date have this configured.Is there a way to run through the older items and extract the repeating section data into another column so it can be parsed?

I have a list with Travel Requests and we just migrated over to a new O365 Tenant (still in SP Online, same version) and not all the items copied over.  I noticed I do not have access anymore to certain administrative tools like I did pre-migration (like SP Designer and Site Content & Structure) and I need to copy over these items ASAP. How can I change whatever permission or feature that Nintex put on this list in order to download them manually?  We may not have the old SP up for much longer.OR if someone has a way to auto PDF all forms and their attachments that would be just fine as well!

Hello,I am not able to format the font on my Calculated Value controls in NINTEX forms, attached to my SharePoint 2013 list.I also do not see the CSS Class options.Is there a setting in Nintex or SharePoint that could be preventing me from being able to apply different formatting?

New to Nintex workflows-Looking to create a workflow with few fields auto-filled from the User Profile Service application when a new form is opened. After which need a calculation which has to go 4 times in one month:Formulae used during the 4 cycles would be:1) RH=TPH-UPH   ------- time1(2) RH=TPH- time1----------time2(3) RH=TPH- time2-----------time3(4) RH=TPH- time3---------time4On Submitting the form, the user signature(username) will be inserted followed by 2 serial approvals from the staff leads which will lastly be recorded in the HR database.List fields will have Name, designation, job title, etc that need to be autofilled, workflow should trigger when the form is submitted sending out notifications to their staff leads.Can someone guide with steps?Nintex for SharePoint‌ Support‌

How do you eliminate the time stamp in a Repeating Section XML Query for "Date"?  I have the date field in the list set to date only.  I have the control set to Yes (show only the date).  Is the issue because I am querying the date in an XML call?I am building an HTML table which then populates back to the list:"<td style='text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;'>{WorkflowVariable:queryLicenseIssueDate}</td>"But this is what displays:

We are running Nintex workflows on our 2013 farm....we also have Project Web App 2013 that has Nintex installed BUT not the PWA Nintex workflows.  Is this because a 2nd license is required or is my farm admins overlooking something?

We have a Microsoft Access Database that contains user option data.  We want to be able to have a user make a form selection that will have a workflow to update a field in the Access database for us.  Is there a way for Nintex workflow to update a Microsoft Access Database?

I need to utilize people picker for a Workflow Cloud form however I am new to this platform.How are these types of fields being facilitated in the NWC? ‌

We have Nintex Workflow 2016 On Premise with Single Server Farm deployment.Since middle of January our Server configuration has a problem:- Central Administration Web Interface is running ok- Central Administration Service and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Workflow Timer Service have dissapeared from Central Administration.  (System settings > Manage Servers in this farm > Pic1)- Our Sharepoint Admin Consultants blame Nintex for this because they can see three Nintex Services which they cannot see on  a comparable other customer. Nintex Connector Queue Service, Nintex Workflow Start Service, Nintex Connector Workflow Service) On the Sharepoint Workflows are running correctly on trigger or manually but the site workfows will not work according to timer service. Do you have any kind of experience with such a condition?

I'm testing out the document generation feature of Nintex Workflow. It works well, however, I can't figure out how to include attachments from a list item. I know that attachments can't be appended to the document generated, but can there be hyperlinks to those attachments?

Hi there, I'm facing a quite strange issue. I have a site collection with many lists and workflows. Only on my production environnment i have everyday several workflows with the following issue :  Some workflow starts and get completed after few seconds without doing all the tasks expected. The problem is that the workflow history shows that the workflow is completed without executing some actions but in reality some of this actions are partially done. For example the workflow create a flexy task and he should wait until the approver choose "approve" or "reject" but it doesn't and just complete the workflow. So users get notifications, go to the task and then get an error "Nintex.Workflow.NWHumanApprovalException: Cannot find a corresponding human workflow task id for this task". The site collection contains 109 workflows on 109 lists (one workflow / one form per list). The farm contains 3 front end servers and 2 app servers. I already faced problems when many workflows are executed at

Hi everyone,I have an issue with a reusable workflow template which I'm hoping someone has seen before.The issue is that when using the workflow template which has a gather data task, it uses the default edit form from the tasks list instead of the Nintex gather data form.I have created a simple list workflow with a gather data action and write to history to test this.When running the List workflow it behaves as expected, the custom edit form is shown.However when the same task is run from the reusable workflow template version of the workflow it shows the following:The difference appears to be that when the list workflow task is accessed, the editform.aspx page redirects to /text/test.aspx (test is the content type name).When using the reusable template it doesn't redirect to the custom form.I have reviewed the site using SharePoint designer and at the root site collection within the WorkflowTasks list there is a folder for the Test content type containing the form test.aspx.There is

I'm looking for a way to delete UDAs from my site collection through PowerShell. Is there a cmdlet for this?

 Hi All, I am trying to embed base64 images on workflow approval notification but could not success. Could you please someone help how to add images on notification and link the image to notification action. When I upload the image on picture library, from external network the images not showing on notification emails because from external network could not access the picture library.  Can anyone please advice Sample notification attached.

I have a form with a single line text field and several panels that contain background color, when I print the background color is not printed. Do you know how to retain object background colors during printing?Development  Environment: Nintex 2013 for SharePoint 2013 on premiseSkill Set: Self Taught (SharePoint/Nintex), CSS Beginner; HTML Beginner; Java Script; BeginnerForm XML attached

Working with SharePoint Online 365 and Nintex Workflow 365. I've created a freetext box in SharePoint 365 that populates applications selected in a multiple selection Choice column. A user checks the following choices:Application AApplication CApplication EThe output is Option A,Option C,Option E if comma delimited via Nintex. I store this in a variable for formatting.It is reformatted via Replace String action to look like this in a rich text Freetext box in SharePoint:Application A: Application C:Application E:Team leads edit the freetext box to assign resources to applications so they attend an event. This is a roundabout way of getting around SharePoint 365's limit on lookup fields, because we used to have well over 12 to assign these resources to each application.If the event's applications are edited (IE they add applications to an event later), I would like it to append to the free text field as follows:Application A: Joe BobApplication C: Jerry SmithApplication E: Andrea Richte

I have created two different work flows, for two different departments, to fulfill a similar need.I am running into an issue, where the initiators are receiving the first email in the workflow that acknowledges creating the List, but when others update the List, none of the other emails are being received by the initiators.  I have added my own email to these other "Send Notifications" and I am successfully getting the update email notifications. 

I am attempting to build a Course request form the has a lookup into a Course list. I created a "Courses" field in a Course Request list. I set it to be a multiselect and is a lookup into a Course List . From the course request list form, if I select one course, i can successfully display the course's related fields such as description and cost. (I pulled onto the form a calculated field for the description and one for cost and applied the lookup() function. eg. lookup("Course List", "ID", Courses,"Description")  ) If I select more than 1 course on the form however, I only ever see the first course's information. Question: How would I set up the form so it can show values to more than 1 course at a time. For example, If I pick 3 courses, I want to see all 3's cost and descriptions. Thank you in advance! lookup selector‌

I have a JS custom include in my form located in the SharePoint SiteAssets library.  After I made some edits to the code and saved it, form preview is still executing the old code.  When does Nintex reload the files?  I've verified my changes have been saved.  I also exited the form designer and then reloaded it and still it has the old code.  Any ideas?

Hello,I would like to populate a TxtField using a querystring url for EditForm..as like .../EditForm.aspx?ID=1&TxtField=1. This works fine for NewForm with default textField value "fn-GetQueryString(TxtField)".any suggestion how can i achieve the same for EditForm ? any Javascript?

Hi Everyone, I am a complete Sharepoint and Nintex Newbie.  I am on Sharepoint 2013.  I am trying to design a workflow that grants item level permission to the user and all users in their group.  For example if someone from California entered the form, I would like all California members to have access to that entry, and not anyone else.  I somehow need to design a workflow to lookup the group that user belongs to (maybe on a separate list) then enter that group in the permissions workflow automatically...  Or maybe use a drop down box that says the user is from California and grant permissions to the California group automatically... Sorry if this is a repost, I searched and searched.  Thank you for your help!