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Hi all,there are a lot of things that you notice after you have worked with NINTEX for some time. Sometime it is joy, sometime it is pain.  But certainly you will develope some kind of practices when working with NINTEX. I would like to see some of your tips'n'tricks here.To start with I have the following best practice from myself concerning naming convention of variables within NINTEX WorkflowsI often see something like varName1, varName2, etc. I like this naming scheme - indicating the data type - better: txtName1, numName2, pogName3, intName4, ynName5, etc.It is only a tiny nugget of information, but it always helps me a lot!Cheersmai-kelbest practices‌ best practice‌ tips and tricks‌

I am trying to make a field required based on the input of two fields. Design Type: a choice fieldComplexity: a choice fieldPerson: PersonI want Person to be required based on the values chosen from Design Type and Complexity. Example.If Design Type = "A" and Complexity = "Medium" or "High" make Person required. Can anyone tell me the validation syntax I need to enter on the Person validation rule to make this work?

Good evening all,Brand new user of Nintex forms for my Sharepoint 2013 site. I am trying to create a form with a specific requirement and I need a little guidance.I want the user to select up to 10 dates for their extra duty pay. If the date is a weekday, I want a calculated value of 16, and 24 if the date is a weekend. Finally, I want a total value.I can do this in excel and probably figure it out in Javascript, but any help would be appreciated.Thanks so much!

I have a very long complicated workflow. The form attached to it is filled out by normal users, and the cases in the WF depend heavily on how the users answer the form. There is a particular section that needs to completed if the user checks a certain box. If the user forgets to check the box there is a "Run IF" in the WF that will just skip this particular section. If a user is told they must check that box, and needs to return to the form because that box must be checked, how can I make the workflow rerun the "Run If" section?

I have three lists List 1 , List 2, List 3 In second List 2 sending mail notification to user.list 1 data copied to list 2, i will get notification, in the same way from list 3 to list 2, i will copy the data to the list, i will get notification. so is it possible to stop sending mail to user if list 3 to list 2 copied data.

Hi evryone,I have used this code:NWF$(document).on('keypress', function (e) {        var length = NWF$(this).text().length;        if (length >= notesMaxLength) {            NWF$counter.text(notesMaxLength + '/' + notesMaxLength);            NWF$(this).val(NWF$(this).val().substring(0, notesMaxLength));        } else {            NWF$counter.text(length + '/' + notesMaxLength);        }    });  In order to limit the chars of textarea to be 1500 chars, but it not works What could be the problem?

Today I was asked if there's an easy way of accessing forms that are awaiting approval. Say a number of forms have been sent to a Director for approval (originating from within various SharePoint sites) and the approval emails 'got lost' or deleted - what's the best thing to do? I know I could regenerate a new workflow email using the delegate function, but is there a better way? If I send a link to the 'AllItems" view of the list, the Director would need to sort through the list to find the relevant forms.Any advice would be appreciated.Thanks

What is wrong with these syntax, because it's not working?if (NWF$('#' + Question1).find("input:checked").val("Yes")) {   NWF$('#' + AssessmentValue).val('Completed');}if (NWF$('#' + Question1).find("input:checked").val()=="Yes" ) {   NWF$('#' + AssessmentValue).val('Completed');}

Is it possible to use Nintex Forms to lock down a panel (group of fields) to a specific permission group so that only people in that group can add/edit those fields in the panel?  Other permission groups would have read-only 

When I look at the new NWC help file, it is missing some of the content that was in the legacy help file. Is that intentional? I'm noticing differences in the SharePoint Online connector topic

There appears to be many flavors for what I would assume to be a fairly simple task. Before I make this more complex than necessary, here is what I am trying to do.We have a source document library where we want to start a workflow from the menu that:1. Copies the file to a target document library in the same site2. Checks it out in the target document library to the person who initiated the workflow in the source library3. Updates a Status field in the target document libraryThanks in advance.

I have a list with a workflow running on it that sends out review tasks. I am trying to pull in a column to the task list to be viewed. List- single line of text (Project Name)Task List- Bring in Project Name The goal is to be able to create a view based on project name in the Task list to easily sort tasks by project.I am not sure how to achieve this. If you have any ideas please let me know. I tried just creating a lookup column but it did not populate the information. 

I have a proof of concept I'm trying to work through with file processing.  We have a simple form for the start that includes a file upload, files are pushed to OneDrive as the default content storage location.  The form side of this works fine and the file is uploaded. On the workflow side I can grab the collection of files, and the individual file to take action on, but I cannot get any info about the file such as the file name.  Ideally, we would like to know what it is called, what type it is, and be able to reference it.  Within the workflow design environment the variable with the type of File seems to have a very limited use so I'm unable to do much with it other than pass it on as it is.  It passes the content, but we have to assign a new name and hope its a compatible format.  Any ideas?Vadim Tabakman ‌ 

First of all I'm new to Nintex Workflow, your help is much appreciated.I have a variable like this 1;2;How to remove content after the first semi colon?

In this Scenario when you try and run the App Activation you get "Authorization not successful" message client side, on the K2 Server the error will state that the client Secret is invalid. "Error","System","2025","InternalMarshalError","SourceCode.Hosting.Server.Runtime.HostServerBroker.InternalMarshal","2025 Error Marshalling SourceCode.Security.OAuth.OAuthManagement.DoOAuthTokenExchange, OAuth Error: Code=invalid_client : Description=AADSTS70002: Error validating credentials. AADSTS50012: Invalid client secret is provided.Trace ID: 5829d874-24d1-4652-bcf1-38bc20a012bfCorrelation ID: ff3097a9-c2f6-491b-9f3b-ef6fca2d89eb" Cause:This happens when you register the App Principal / app permissions which allows you to generate a random client secret for that principal. We register our Client ID (ie, 10d4f504-a2e2-4336-82cd-2a44382e35c6) in the MS Seller Dashboard and is used by all customers. How to remove this registered App Principal StepsCapture the AppPrincipalID before you delete itfr

Hi,I just want to ask how would I store an attachment. I have this workflow that runs when an item is created and will create another item on different list. What I want to happen is to also include the attachment to the other list item.Ex.A user created an item in "List A" then a workflow will run and get all the values in the columns of "List A" and recreate it to the "List B" but the workflow can't transfer the attached file from List A.

I have flexitask infopath forms bringing alot of data and I have some users that need to approve multiple tasks without opening the form. Is there a way to create another workflow to change the outcome or dropdown action I can add. 

Trigger first notification to the users mentioned in the List2 against the respective technology, when “Planned UAT Date” for a record is due in 5 days and again trigger second notification to the users mentioned in the List2 against the respective technology, when “Planned UAT Date” for a record is due in 2 days.There are two lists- List 1 –Contains planned Uat date, technology and some other fieldsList2 -consists of technology corresponding different peopleTechnology     Notification RecipientOracle               Person1,person2,Person3Java                          Person4,person1.Attached the workflow i did in a document.only one round of mail is triggered.how to send the second notification ?should i create another workflow? Can this be done in more simple way?Thanks in Advance.

Hey folks!(And probably, specifically Marian Hatala‌, ‌)I'm not great with RegEx. I want to use the Replace() functionality to, if a single line of text matches a RegEx pattern, to turn it to a word. Using an example here, but basically:SLT:  32.44RegEx: ^(dd.)dd$Now, if I were to put that RegEx into the "Regular Expression" validation portion of the SLT, it's valid - that's rad. Great. If not, maybe just the number appears, or maybe it's blank. Whatever, doesn't matter to me.BUT.I want to put it into this calculated field as, for example, replace(SLT, "^(dd.)dd$", "yes this format is correct") The goal is to have a specific word appear if the formatting matches the RegEx. Thanks for any help that can be offered!(The overall goal here, if you're curious, is that we have specific validation formatting required if it's imperial vs metric, but it's also all within the same text field. If you have better ideas, I am all ears.)

I have a very simple repeating section with some text values. I'm basically collecting some values on the initial form and saving them into list item fields. Then a task form gets created with that repeating section, all I want is that the fields in the repeating section gets auto-populated with default values from the data I'm collecting on the initial form. The funny thing, it is working fine when I add new line items in the repeating section, all default values that I want are in there. But just not the first line in the repeating section. I added the default value of each field to be populating from the list item field. I also changed the null display value to be populating from that list item field. Still can't get the first line to auto-populate the default value. Using SP/Nintex 2016 on prem.Thoughts?!

Hi folks!Using on-prem 2013. I'm wondering if you've discovered a way to hide / show (collapse and expand) repeating sections with a pre-populated title for it?The current need is to populate a repeating section with data from another 3, 4, or 5+ items (1 form = 1 repeating section), but we'd then like to collapse that so a user doesn't have to see all the data all at once, but has access to open and shut each one. Thanks for any ideas / guidance you may have.Cheers!rhia

All,I know that you cannot have an attachment control in a repeating section...yet.I've added my vote to the wanted feature list.I'm wondering how you have got around this current limitation?Normally I'd create a document set and upload all documents into it.  However, I can't do that this time - it would all get too messy and require too much end user intervention and marrying up of document v question (why the document has been uploaded).I've read the following post and added the control/code to my form. Yet, like others I don't know where the file would be uploaded/attached to.ThanksAndrew

There have been numerous questions and solutions offered for the issue of managing multiple workflows and related conflicts.  I could not locate an answer for my use case.I have 2 or more WFs for a list, all of which have as the last 2 WF Action Steps:Update item (with a new value for a field)Send Notification (or start a simple Notification WF)In this use case, there are 2 WFs (WF1 and WF2) as described above, both of which are started conditionally based upon field value changes (when value is "not equal" to old value).  Very simple WFs.Each WF is not dependent and not related to the other WF, and they are started based upon different field value changes.  Except that the Update Item action in both WFs is for the same list field (a Single Line txt field being used to capture the "Initiator's Name"When the list and form were built, it was intended that certain process steps in filling out the form, would happen in sequence with one being completed, Process1 (including the firing off o

Hi. We are planning a migration SharePoint 2016 (On-Premise). Can we keep MinRole on some servers or we need to set custom role?

I just discovered that I can show a parent-child relationship using a list view control. That part was easy. But what I need to do now is one more level deep. I'll give the scenario:I have a form for Servers in our environment. I have a list view showing all the SQL Server Instances installed, and that's working fine. But now I need another list that shows all the databases on the instances that are displayed in the first list.In the standard SharePoint forms I'm able to use web parts and use the "connections" to do all the filtering. It works really well, but there's the severe problem of the forms being ugly, and well, all the reasons Nintex forms are superior.