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Universal Forms research lab is live! We’re glad you found your way here. This space is for our surveys, polls and tasks to help understand how you use Nintex products and what you need in future. We hope to share with you our findings when we have them compiled. There is much that we’d like to research so we’re excited to be taking this first dip in the ocean.Nintex Mobile up was up firstWith a load of forms in Nintex Mobile app, user frustration can ensue when looking for the one you use the most. Wouldn’t it be great to have those ones bubble up to the top and stay there somehow?So we asked some of you about being able to favourite a form in Nintex Mobile. And you responded: being able to favourite a form and have it displayed prominently would greatly assist in finding those forms you use on a daily and hourly basis.Here’s what we proposed:And the result• 67% of our respondents found this way of favouriting a form exactly as expected. Some of the key findings:• 60% of our responden

I don't seem to be able display a number (on edit, or on view) with comma separators for thousands etc. I tried using currency type, but then I can't get rid of the dollar ($) symbol. Is there a way to do this out of the box?

I have a PeoplePicker control that I have disabled by rule because I am populating it via jQuery based on a selection in a drop down list.  I am using the NF.peoplePickerApi to set the value, which works fine.  However, if I change the value of the drop down list, the field does not clear and I get more than one name in the field which causes an error.  If the field is NOT disabled, the code works properly but I need the field disabled so it isn't modified manually by a user.Is it by design that the clear method doesn't work if the field is read only?  Is there another way to clear the field?

Hello everyone, I have a question in nintex workflow, I did an updated document workflow for a service, but I want the workflow prints the updated document automatically if possible, or just opens the document for me or opens the print preview for the user. Is that possible in nintex?

Symptoms  Receiving Database Key error after restoring K2 database on new SQL Server instance. Detailed error message:The key 'SCSSOKey' is not open. Please open the key before using it.Please create a master key in the database or open the master key in the session before performing this operation. The key 'SCSSOKey' is not open. Please open the key before using it.System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Please create a master key in the  Diagnoses  Whenever you move/restore K2 database onto new SQL Server instance it is required for you to rebuild SCSSOKey for K2 database.  ResolutionResolution:- Create backup of K2 Database- Stop the K2 Blackpearl Service- Run the following SQL scripts:  --1. ALTER SERVICE MASTER KEY FORCE REGENERATE   --2.  DROP SYMMETRIC KEY SCSSOKey DROP CERTIFICATE SCHostServerCert DROP MASTER KEY   CREATE MASTER KEY ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = '(Contact K2 Support for this detail)' --Create certificate --Modify dates if necessary CREATE CERTIFICATE SCHost

When you enable lazy approval, it adds a unique code to the subject line so that it knows with workflow task it is approving.  got it.   I have a scenario where I want other software to generate a email that can automatically send to Nintex Workflows to let it know the task was responded to. It has the ability to look up Nintex web services to determine if there is an approval task assigned, and what responses are available. I just can't post back because of limitations with authentication and Nintex error that "the account used is unable to respond to this task". I was hoping I can make an Admin account have permissions to respond to any Workflow approvals, but haven't figured how to get around the "delegate then respond" restrictions. Is the code used by Nintex for the Lazy Approval available in any of it's tables via web service so I can look it up and create a email to mimic the lazy approval.  I need to save clicks and reduce the number of places to go to complete a simple approva

I'm trying to get an idea of what needs to be done in the upgrade to SharePoint 2016. We have a relatively small number of workflows and forms and I'm trying to see if we can get around migrating the Nintex Databases.

I have a SQL Request control that returns a set of terms. How can I display a single textbox or calculated control showing the number of returned matching terms.  A custom JavaScript solution is acceptable.Example:  The control displays:Select a color...RedWhiteBlueThe textbox should display 3.

Is it possible to restrict manually-run workflows from being visible in the Item menu based on document properties? example: we have three document lifecycle stages - draft, reviewed and approved. Each of these statuses are updated in the "Document Lifecycle Status" column in our doc library. we want to restrict users from seeing our custom approval workflow in the item menu if the item is still in "Draft" status and the "Review" workflow has not yet run.

Hi,I have a scenario where in the business wants to import a CSV file contents to a repeater control, i.e. when using Nintex forms they would add some details on the rest of the form and want to populate a repeater control with contents from a csv fil e(as they are in excess of 20) so they dont want to be manually typing them! and once imported they then submit the form.I understand its a bit easier if I had Nintex workflows to do import CSV into a list, but in this case its Nintex forms that needs to have this feature. The attachment control in Nintex also does not have a JS variable value which could be probed further Has anyone else have any ideas around this? This seems to be a handy feature when you want to bulk insert into a repeater control.Regards,ShriniAndrew Glasser‌ Marian Hatala‌ Caroline Jung‌

Hi Team,We are using Nintex Workflows and Forms for SharePoint On premise environment. We have multiple environments like Dev, UAT and Production. Currently we are manually deploying the workflows and forms to these environments and we are facing issues due human error because of manual deployment. Is there any best practice we can follow for the DevOps in Nintex to reduce error due to manual deployment?RegardsPraveen

I have List A that uses a lookup to List B Title to put the Title and ID of item from List B into two fields in List A. A content type is associated with List A. On Nintex form the lookups do not show as List columns, so we are trying to use a List Lookup control. But even though that pulls in the choices from List B no problem, I cannot get the value from that form control to save its value to List A. I have tried connecting it but that doesn't seem to work and the field on List A doesn't appear as a choice to connect to.Everything works fine when the user fills in the list fields in quick edit mode, but I need the form to be able to do what they can do in quick edit mode.I am not very savvy with Nintex forms at present. Any help/nudge would be appreciated.

I have two Lists. Each time a nintex form is filled in, it creates a new item in list A which includes amongst other fields a field for 'Surname' and a field called 'Compliant'.List B is a current list of all employees, approx 500 entriesEach time a new item is added to list A,  I would like to update the Field named 'RR_Compliant' with value = 'Yes' in List B for the list item with the same surname as the one entered in list A.

Best to see the pic below. This is a mock up to demonstrate the issue I'm running into. Whenever I have 2+ repeating sections in-line with each other, adding rows to just one properly re-sizes the area. Adding a row to any other repeating section next to it will push down everything and creates this blank space.It's almost as if it's over-compensating the re-sizing of the area. Having 4 repeating sections side-by-side, all the same size and etc, will create a blank area the size of the sum of all the rows added to the repeating sections. Ideally it'd only resize and push everything down by the size of the longest repeating section.Putting them in their own panels does not change this behavior. Does anyone know a workaround to this? -Leland

I have a request to make a copy of a document from a SharePoint 2013 doc library (on prem) and post via Nintex Workflow to Box. Has anyone else encountered this, and if so, did you come up with a solution?

Nintex Community,   Recently we ran into a strange occurrence using the javascript line:      NWF$(document).ready(function(){NWF.FormFiller.PrintToPDF.PrintToPDF();});   This javascript line is suppose to convert your Sharepoint form to a PDF and will open up the add in notification bar to open the PDF or Save it as shown belowWhen I have my coworkers try it or use my test ID is displays the Converting To PDF Sharepoint spinner box, but when it closes nothing happens. They do not get the notification bar, and nothing was saved in their downloads folder.  We decided to bring Desktop Support in to see if it was browser related, which was ruled out quickly.  It's also not the machine, as I can duplicate the issue with the test ID on my machine. We started digging into this issue, starting with internet search.  We found a few posts about making sure the users have at least reader access to your site.  It should not have affected my coworkers since they have the same access to the site co

After having done "NWAdmin.exe -o MoveData [...]" (in Nintex Workflow 2.4.1.0 on SharePoint 2010...)  the old DataBase is still displayed under [CentralAdmin]/_admin/NintexWorkflow/ViewDatabaseMappings.aspx and the configuration-DataBase the "Storage"-table also still lists the old DataBase-ID for the given site.However, the Documentation states: [...] From this point on, workflows in the site collection will use the new database. [...]Is the documentation wrong, or am I missing something?Can I somehow "see" which DataBase is used for a given site?Thanks,Nils

A custom textbox linked to a javascript function that validate its content, well integrated in the the smartforms validation features.(Form validation, layout changes...)

Hi, I tried to reset my user password from site https://partner.nintex.com  several times but no email arrived even after a few hours.

Hello,we are currently on SP2013, Nintex WF 3.2.4.0I created a workflow with a request data Action. The Action will create a new CT, I added some fields to the CT and everything should work perfectly (not the first WF I am Building). Also the Person who has to answer the request has enough permissions (added the user as Site Collection admin).When I want to answer the request (clicking button "complete Task") nothing happens. I thought that maybe something is wrong with the CT or the fields, to I created a new CT with no fields, so that I only can say "complete Task" and don't have any opinion to enter information. This also wont work. I don't get any error, there just seems to happen nothing.I also set all the fields to optional so that I don't miss a fields that I maybe forgot to fill.Can anyone help?

I have a form that requires a Yes/No drop down answer.  I was wondering if there was way to reset the answer back to a blank value once the form is saved.  Essentially that Yes/No answer is what will kick off a workflow after the form is saved.  I thought about using a Yes/No check box, but I need to make sure an answer is selected when filling out the form.  That was the reason I thought a drop down selection would work.  I've tried inserting a set field value for the drop down to blank by either having no value entered or using "".  That didn't seem to work. Maybe I'm not using the correct workflow action to change this value.  Any assistance here would be appreciated. Thanks

I've built a New Nintex form - I have everything just about set up to where it's functional for my office. The only issue is the print to PDF function - when I hit Print to PDF link and the PDF opens, a lot of my labels are missing, the font color has been changed from white to black, and the multi-lined text blocks won't expand to ensure all of the data is in the PDF. Has anyone else had this issue and been able to resolve it - please help Cheri

Hi,    I have a people picker field in my nintex form. Now it shows all the users. I need to filter it to only users in a share point group "Technicians". Please help me

Nintex Form Single line of text field is disabled. We are not able to write on the field upon checking the field is enable. Please help. TIA!

I have requirements to export Nintex form field content to a text file to be uploaded to a 3rd party vendor.Is this possible utilizing anything from Nintex out of the box?We use SharePoint 2013 and Nintex Worflow 2013 on-premises...