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   Is there a best practice when it comes to purging the progress/log tables on a schedule? My team is trying to redefine our governance policy for our environment, and that's one thing we would like to figure out. Even if we were to go through and put retention policies on all of the history lists that grow at a solid rate, that only gets us half way there.    We have too many sites to go through and purge using the site settings method of clearing out the tables. Does anyone do anything programmatically to purge their tables on a schedule, or something else they recommend for a large environment?

Hey Everyone,I have a site workflow which I would like to schedule to run every few minutes instead of every hour. Is there like a Powershell Script or any other way I can do that?

I need convert a document of a library and save as PDF in O365. The Document Generation only allow 500 uses per year.

Hi All,        I have on receipt form created using Nintex forms. The user will fill the details and has to print it. I want to know how to print this ?

Here is the picture:Content type for site collection "Tracker" has a lookup column to a list called "BABs" located at the top level site.Subsite uses content type "Tracker" where lookup value works fine.Site collection reusable workflow on "Tracker" content type allows running on item creation and manually called "Submit Tracker"Content type > workflow settings > add workflow > "Submit Tracker" > check box option select "Creating a new item will start this workflow."Go to subsite, add new tracker item, workflow runs as expectedAll good so far.Inside the workflow I have logged to history list ItemProperty:CurrentBAB which is my lookup field.When the reusable workflow runs on item creation (automatically) the value of CurrentBAB is empty (even though it definitely is not empty on the item).  If I run it manually however, the value appears.If I create a list workflow on the same subsite list and do the same thing (run on item creation and log the CurrentBAB value) the value lo

Hoping there's a straight forward solution to this...at a stage in my Nintex Workflow a user gets a form view to fill in. At the same moment this gets sent out another notification gets sent out for approval for Manager B. What I want to happen is that when the user submits the view that the Manager then gets a notification that they have an approval task to complete. So the Manager B gets the task request  after the user has submitted the view.So it currently runs Manager A approves > email gets sent to initiator to fill in View at the same time that Manager B gets a notification that they have a task

Hello,today I would like to ask something regarding formatting of a selection-fiel. I created a list containing a choice-field. The user can select one of the offered items in a dropdown-field or enter a own item in the offered text-box.This picture shows the dropdow with "please choose one value" [sorry for the German language ;-) ] and below the box for entering an own value labeld with "enter your own value".As you can see this textbox is very short, not comfortable and I would like to format this box e.g. to define a width. How can that be done? I tried a few things with CSS but I didn't find the right way.Thanks in advance for your answers.Kind regardsMartinN

We currently have Standard version of Nintex Forms and Workflows,  We have created a Nintex Form and one of the requirement is to PRINT to PDF adjust the page layout etc.  We wanted to trail for 30 days to see if the user requirement is fulfilled with Enterprise version before we purchase.Thanks

Hello i have a problem with making a Query List Item in NINTEX WORKFLOW.I want to Query List Item from another site (I know how to do with CAML EDITOR) but in same code i want to compare Filtered Item from another site with item in current site.How can i do it?

Can you not use 'Send Notification' in the Flexi Task branches?  I have the following that will not send a notification to the initiator or to anyone.  The log to history list is working so the path is being taken. 

I'm a freelance developer working at an enterprise SharePoint 2013 on prem environment. At the moment, i'm analyzing the Workflow options. I need 1 workflow on multiple locations in the same Web App and no forms.I see the new Nintex business model on the website with a starterskit containing 5 workflows. Can I reuse this 5 workflows (so 1 workflow on multiple locations in the same Web App) or do the client company has to pay each instance?

Hi I have populated a column with an email body. Now I need a regex to remove all the text from the column that I do not need. I only need the 1st few sentences of the email body.What Reg ex can I use? Is there one that saids remove all text after a certain word?Thanks

HelloWe have a custom list in SharePoint 2013 on-premise.When we try to publish a Nintex form (imported from another similar list or just the default one), we have an error : Object reference not set to an instance of an object.Thanks in advance.

I have two workflows on same list and both have conditional start. One isWorkflow 1:Workflow 2:If I change Planned Ship to Plant Date and Planned K.O. Date on the list item, only First workflow starts and second one is not starting even though the condition is meeting.Please help!Nintex Workflow 2010

OK so this has stumped me. So I have a query that sets some string variables based on an ID. The query runs fine if I execute on the spot but many of the fields I am returning are not populated. I didn't expect that to be an issue.The object of this workflow is to copy data from one table to a table in another site- however the fields are all optional so some may be blank and I need to work with that. I am however getting a Coercion Failed: Unable to transform the input lookup data into the requested type in the Create Item in Another Site. There are 50+ fields I am working with so creating a Create Item in Another Site based on which fields have data is just not possible as there are too many combinations. This error occurs even if I am only populating one field (which is a text field and has data).All the fields are either date, text or choice fields. I want to leave the date fields blank if they are blank in the original data so I hate to have to populate them if that is the issue.

I have three in number user defined actions that I know I have:created at site levelpromoted to site collectionexported and imported as farm level UDAsI can see the UDAs in any site > manage UDAs and they show as farm level:And when in central admin, I can manage the permissions to them:but I cannot see them in central admin > manage user defined actions?literally driving me insane - anyone ever seen this before?‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌

Dear all:I have a number between 0 and 999, and I would like to format it as follow:If <10:                         00XIf >=10 and <100:       0XXIf >99:                         XXXit means, to have a three characters string to allow to be sort properly...I don't know if using regular expression I can do it...Thank you very much in advance...

Have a workflow that calls a flex tasks.  Tested, work great.  Now in prod and it has started occationally failing when someone responds to the flexitask.  If you look at the graphical workflow history, you can see that someone approved the task., however, it has not advanced to the next control in the workflow.  When you look in the history you see:Workflow Details  [if IE 9]  [endif]  9/1/2017 12:13 PMTask Completed(Keyser, Franstine) Not eligible<message from task removed by poster>No9/1/2017 12:13 PMWorkflow CommentError in task. Cannot find item with id 76 in list 'Spirit Awards Nominations'. Check the user has at least read permissions. Current user: i:0#.w|<domain>/<username>.ErrorHoweerm when I look at the Spirit Awards Nomination library, the user does have Read and Contribute-Restricted,which is defined below.  I really am at a loss for why this happens.Contribute-Restricted - Under Site Permissions • Cannot Browse Directories • Cannot Delete list items or d

We are planing to implement an online payment process once the user submit an application. The Application form was built using Nintex form.Question: Mainly, we need to redirect the user to the payment application once he submit the application. so we need to take a reference from the submitted application to pass it to the payment app. The problem that if we use Redirect URL option available with Nintex form that will not help because it doesn't allow to put calculated value or variable as a query string . On the other side, handle the click on the submit button won't help, because the JavaScript will run before saving the form. so in case if any validation stop saving the form, that couldn't be handled.  Could we have an idea how should we implement that?!

 Symptoms A text field control is added to a SharePoint list with the option "Append Changes to Existing Text" enabled (must also have versioning turned on for this list).After Appifying this list, the functionality of this text field is lost. The control will still append changes, but on the Edit and Display SmartForms only the most recent entry is shown, and information as to who submitted the entry is not displayed (as it is when using the OOB SharePoint form). Diagnoses The utilization of a text area control to show a log of appended changes, along with a time stamp and the person who made the change, is not an OOB feature through Appit. Because SharePoint saves these changes as "versions" for the text field, Appit will update the SmartObject that is storing the entries with the latest entry, along with the appropriate version number. However, the data from previous entries/versions of the control are not saved within the SmartObject. This can be seen by visiting K2 Management and

 Symptoms User was getting "Input string was not in a correct format" error screen on executing any method on a list. Diagnoses The error was caused by a calculated column on the sharepoint list. Resolution Remove the problem column.  

 Symptoms How to show/hide/validate controls based on content of another control. Diagnoses Possible with the steps below. Resolution - Via the Form/View Layout tab Properties window (bottom right), check the 'Visible' property on the controls that should start invisible.- Add a 'When a control on the View/Form raises an event' event, targeting the source control and its 'Changed' method.- Add a 'a control contains a specific value' condition, targeting the source control and setting which value you're looking for.- Add a 'Set a control's properties' action, targeting a hidden control, setting it's Hidden field to 'Yes' or 'No' as appropriate.- Repeat the above steps for all required source control content conditions and hiding actions.- In your validation condition, check 'Do not validate hidden, disabled, or read-only controls, Views and tabs.' 

 Symptoms Wanting to emulate SharePoint designer's action. Diagnoses Currently there is no single event that can achieve this, but it is possible with some Management SmartObjects calls. Resolution There are two possible ways to achieve this. One is to use the SmartObject method "Workflow.Management.Activity" -> "Goto Activity" to force the workflow to a dummy event at the end of the workflow. When the workflow passes the dummy it will go into the ideal "Completed" state and cease to be active.Another way is to use the SmartObject method "Workflow.Management.ProcessInstanceInfo" -> "Remove" to halt the workflow instance. You can pass in a parameter to save log data for reporting purposes, and the workflow will show up as "Deleted".Both SmartObjects are found in "SystemManagementWorkflowsSmartObjects". To use them in a workflow, they must be given scope via the Manage SmartObjects page. 

We are needing to update to the current release of form and workflow. If we apply the current releases, will this update be cumulative? Or do we need to apply each incremental update, one at a time? Side note: Once we are current, we will get these releases scheduled in our patching system  and not get so far behind. Thanks.

 Symptoms When you Submit a form you may get an error that states "item SmartObject property ID is a required property for selected UpdateList. Value must be set.". Diagnoses This error may happen when you either do not supply a valid value for the input for the method you are trying to execute. Resolution Ensure that you are passing the correct values for the method, you can check what parameters are required by editing the SmartObject.This error may also occur within the rule of a button when the input values on the control have been automapped. In this case please check you are inputting the correct values that are being passed by the controls as the automapping will typically map the actual control to the field, rather than the value inputted into the control.