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Hello there!I'm using Nintex Form 2013 Version: 2.7.0.0. Apparently, I've a list lookup form control and it seems to be a problem.When user selected a value from the List lookup and save the form, it shows "Sorry, something went wrong". The form was not able to open up in either edit or display view.After investigation, I've realized that it was cause by the incorrect format of ID saved when user selected a value. The ID should be a format like (i.e. 332686;#1 ECI NZ TRY Pte Ltd). However, in my nintex form, it was only saved as 332686.I've tried using workflow to update the ID field to the correct format. But the workflow takes too long and sometimes it did not run as well as I would hope. I'm thinking of using javascript to "edit" the ID upon button trigger when saving, do you think it is advisable?Please help.. I'm not too sure how I can go about to update ID using javascript.. Thank you very much..The codes below is the javascript written using my very limited skills, the alert is

How can I customize the  page of view item form nintex 2013 (the page of  edit and new item are different than view item)

I have a form that I want to auto populate a field based on a users permission group but it looks like nintex only allows you to hide or disable a field based on permissions. If anyone knows a way to do this it would be much appreciated. 

Hi, with the more bigger/complex workflows I often get a popup with the text "0:" and the OK button. When closing the workflow designer I'm then asked whether to leave or stay on the page. When leaving it turns out a new major, published version of the workflow is available.On other days I do get the regular successful publishing popup.... Is the above message due to a time out between workflow compiler and the designer?

HiI've configured a Flexi-Task for a single outcome, but when the workflow gets to that stage I'm getting an error:'Error in task. The user to assign the task to has resolved as blank text.'What I'm trying to do is that as soon as a user completes View2 on an InfoPath form and submits that an approver gets notified to approve or reject.There is an earlier Flexi-Task stage where a user submits View1 which when approved sends out the View2 to complete.Suggestions welcome.

i want to create a workflow that starts when i receive a notification from another system at my Outlook

workflow - Including a link to a SharePoint list item in an email - SharePoint Stack ExchangeI have two lists. In one list a user enters system details which then kicks off a Workflow which then sends an email to an approver. The email has a link to the second list where the approver ticks on some check boxes. What I'd like to do is to include a link to the item in the first list.This has been suggested but Nintext doesn't have the Set Workflow Variable action:Create a new workflow variable.Use the action Set Workflow Variable, select the newly create variable and now click on ... to open string builder.In string builder put the URL to list item display form, append ?Id= string to it.Now, from the lower left corner click on Add or Change Lookup.In this, select Current Item and ID and insert it.

I recently received a link to a YouTube demo of a new version of forms, code named "Zinc".  I was told that this is now available for download, but don't see it in versions available for download.

Likely will open a support ticket for this, but always like to bounce off the community...In the past 24-48 hours workflow notifications and error messages are no longer being received, globally. We have found so far that due to some network issues we're not able to telnet to "telnet SMTP1" from SharePoint PROD web servers but we are able to telnet to "telnet SMTP2". We are now able to send alerts/emails after changing the outbound SMTP server to "smtp2.dsglobal.org" within SharePoint, but Nintex notifications are still not working.Wondering if Nintex is still looking at SMTP1, and how to change to SMTP2, if needed.Any insight is appreciated.Thanks!Eric

Dear all,For some time now I'm facing an issue that keeps bugging me: some Workflow tasks (using Nintex Task with multiple outcome) do not show the outcomes (Approve/Reject).The Flexi Task used has some extra Task description text with some workflow and item properties included. Nothing fancy. Most of the time, clearing the Description field and adding the text again works fine to resolve the issue for new task.It seems that the Nintex engine somehow messes up the HTML for rich text content  Also for task notification email bodies If possible I would like to avoid to build the texts in strings (including HTML/CSS), as that would be a major inconvenience and annoyance.Is there a way, apart from LazyApproval (luckily enabled), to still get access to the outcome of the messed up workflow tasks?[UPDATE] This happens at runtime. In the screenshot below the blurred regions in the red box are part of the Description ending in a user on the left with the presence awareness icon.NB: I've blurre

I have 2 concatenated calculated value fields,  cvaA & cvaAA in List A and a concatenated calculated value field, cvaB, in List B.  In both lists the concatenated values are the same types of information (single line text).  I want to use the value cvaA to lookup in List B to return the value in column SerialNumber.  Is this possible to do?The user enters values into 2 fields thus the concatenation being done in cvaA of List A.I have a Lookup defined on the calculated value field - cvaAA :  lookup("Certs", "cvaB", cvaAA, "SerialNumber")Not working I receive  #value!  on the form.(List B does have the same values in its concatenated calculated value field for lookup testing.)

HiI'm trying to get a form from a list and publish it using the Nintex Forms API (https://help.nintex.com/en-US/sdks/sdk2013/#FormSDK/Topics/SDK_NF_API_REF_PublishFormXml.htm ) It works fine getting the form XML using GetFormXML (https://help.nintex.com/en-US/sdks/sdk2013/#FormSDK/Topics/SDK_NF_API_REF_GetFormXml.htm) and saving it to a variable but the PublishFormXml call fails all the time with the error "Error performing web request". The XML from GetFormXML is saved in a variable that I use to send in to PublishFormXML. The error message is: The server encountered an error processing the request. The exception message is 'The formatter threw an exception while trying to deserialize the message: There was an error while trying to deserialize parameter http://tempuri.org/:listId. The InnerException message was 'There was an error deserializing the object of type System.String. Encountered unexpected character '''.'. Please see InnerException for more details.'. See server logs for mo

is "Workflow Diagram" compatible with Nintex mobile app ?we have SharePoint 2013 on-prem and we have the latest version of Nintex WF and Formsif i view it from desktop .. it shows the diagram normally, but from a mobile (iPhone, Windows Phone)i get the below error

Let's see if I can even explain myself correctly. I'm trying to query a list, returning multiple items. Each item has a repeater with multiple details.Item has:BuildingCityRepeaterCreated DateRepeater fields are:      Person      NumberSince I have multiple items I'm returning, I need to call web service. I'm able to build an HTML table with the returned information that is stored in the Results variable (After using XSL transform option). The problem is each row becomes:Building | City | Repeater XML with everything about all people entered in repeater | Created DateI need to be able to build an HTML table consisting ofRepeater Person | Repeater Person Number | Building | City  | Created DateNext Repeater Person | Repeater Person Number | Same Building | Same City  | Same Created DateWhat actions would I even use to keep track correctly? It seems like I would benefit from using a collection but the returned XML can only be stored in a single variable. 

I am tasked with creating a new form and workflow for our onboarding process. I have read about the action that can create a new AD account, but I am not seeing it as part of our product. What am I doing wrong?

Hi,While looking at the Nintex History, there are some history logs and nodes that are not showing up. The attached images shows a comparison of the Workflow Preview and the Workflow Designer. Some of the nodes do not show up in the Preview. I know that the nodes not being shown were run because I can see their effect in the list.In the Workflow History Log some of the nodes do not log any messages. I use the "Message to log on completion"  in the Common tab of the node to log when the node runs. Not all of these logs are being output to the log history. Like with the Workflow Preview, I know that these nodes are being run by their effect in the list.Does anyone know why this is happening?Thank you,Clint Walsh

Hi,I am trying to populate a list with links to download documents from a library in another site collection with a site workflow in Nintex workflow 2013 using the query list workflow action and a CAML query.What is the best CAML query to use?Will I have to use a regular expression to build up the link?Would it be better to use the call web service workflow action instead?Thanks,Chuck

Good DayHow can i create a poject server workflow with Nintex to show me all users that have not submitted their timesheets for a specific cut off period. Your assistance will be appreciated. 

I have a repeating section for fields and I'm using validation rules. However when I submit the form I see the  validation message (see screen shot)  then the form submits by itself. This might be confusing for the end user.Any one have a suggestion on how to fix this?

All,Am I correct in my assumption that if I use a workflow to copy a list item (Nintex Form) from one list (A) to another list (B).If I actually want to open the newly created item on B and view it's contents, I need the nintex form design on both lists?ThanksAndrew

Hi, I have two questions,First I'm trying to add a validation rule to multiple controls but it siply doesnt work, at least the way it is working in the classic form designer.I select the control and click "Add to selected controls", I'm I missing somthing?The second is, when i oppen the sharepoint list from a smartphone and rey to create a new item , i get the default sharepoint form , no the Nintex one, do  I have to install any thing on my phone?Best RegardsNada

 Symptoms  How can I assign a task to a Sharepoint 2013 'Person or Group' type column that allows selection of multiple users.  Diagnoses  Some points to consider:   1. The destination type 'User/Group/Role' is configured during design time if a task is assigned to a string, K2 does not know what type this string refers to it is up to the developer to define this during design time   2. Destinations will need to be in the format 'K2:DOMAINUsername'   3. When using the Smartobject for this List/Library it will return the data as follow: a. ColumnName: 27;29 b. ColumnName (Value): Codi Kaji;Mike Talley  Resolution To accomplish this requirement, the workflow was configured as follow:   1. Use a data transfer event and call the [System andgt Sharepoint 2013 Integration andgt Sharepoint Integration Helper Methods (SmartObjects) andgt Get K2 FQN for Sharepoint Users (method)] against the semi-colon separated IDs '27;29' returned by the People or Group column to return string 'K2:DENALLIXCod

I have a workflow that uses a SharePoint Choice field to drive logic. Items in the choices include "Credit", "Credit and Return", "No action". The workflow inspects the chosen value and branches accordingly. Problem is the user wants to rename a Choice (from Debit to Debit/Credit). Of course the Choice field  can be changed and workflow updated BUT  running workflows will break. Is there a creative solution?I know how to safeguard against this in the future using secondary lockups to match logic but ideally wonder if there is a fix. 

I have a bilingual form. Instead of regular labels, I used calculated value control to display the appropriate language. All works fine. However, when I select the item to view it, it also shows the html tags (see image). Can someone please advise how to prevent the html tags to display in view item?Thank you.

I had a great response to my question on how to quickly delete WF history in this postI have 3 follow-up questions1- When I go to NintexWorkflowHistory and select Purge items.  I get a correlation ID error  Upon further review it does appear to delete about 7,500 each time I select Purge Items, but no more  Somewhat of a drag when I have 50,000 History items.  Any idea for the error ?  Note I tried another list and same thing - i get an error and it deletes 7,500 at a time.2-A casualty of doing the above is then my Recycle Bin fills up !  How do I mass delete the Recycle Bin ?3-How do I prevent WF History getting created in the first place ?  When I go to the Site Workflow and select WF Settings there is no option to prevent a WF history under the drop-down called "History List"