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 Symptoms There is an inconsistency between SMO Tester and SP for the date field. In SP I can see the dates as '3/7/2018' but when I run the SMO for the same DL in tester it showing as '3/8/2018'. Diagnoses This was an all-in-one environment that was hosting the SQL server, K2 server, Sharepoint Farm, and was also where the browser and SmartObject Service Tester tool was being executed from. It was determined that although the server was in the CST timezone, the Sharepoint site had its regional setting set to the PST timezone (this setting is per sites). Although a Sharepoint 'Date and Time' type > 'Date Only' field was being used this was still stored in Sharepoint in a DateTime Format and can be verified with:SELECT *FROM [SharepointContentDatabaseName].[dbo].[AllUserData]ORDER BY [tp_Created] DESC*if you are looking for the latest entry addedIt was the difference in the timezone settings that is resulting in this different date. Resolution After setting the Regional Settings for

Hi,     I have a calculated column with the below formulaIf(Is New Mode,lookup("List","Id",fn-GetQueryString("Id"),"Title"), Child Title) In the new mode, it fetches value from the Parent list and for other modes it fetches value from the child list "Child Title" column value.in all scenarios works fine, but in one scenario it is failing. When the "Child Title" contains values with the single quote it is failing.eg: Child Title column value is Bharathi's Demo. Works fine if value is Bharathis DemoPlease provide your help on this.

Hi All,Please i need a help between Niontex Forms and Nintex WF variables pass, would you please let me know if we could pass variables from Nintex WF to Nintex forms.The purpose of the question is:I want to have a link (better to be buttons) for the task action (approve/reject/complete...etc) in the list item itself, so users should not follow the emails for taking actions, what workaround i did is using Nintex WF, when i have a task, lets say flexi task, i put a parallel action with query list to the tasks list, this will get the pending task and i set it into a hyperlink list itemIt works well, but the issue when i have a  flexi task that has group of pople and they all should take action, the task that i have set inseide teh list item  is the recent one (for only one user), so other users when they open the list itemwill have no ability to take action!What i'm thinking is to make the query list more advanced by specifying the all pending tasks related to this item with assigned per

I have a workflow running that assigns a task to multiple people.  First to respond gets it - other person is notified they are no longer needed.  In an effort to spread the workload evenly, I would prefer to assign the task via round robin (using a group of 4+ people) rather than whoever gets to it first. I've seen some SPD workflows set up to do this, but can I do it in Nintex? (the question form made me choose a space... none seemed appropriate so I chose Dev Talk. Not sure that's the right space either?)

Hi, I have the following scenario: I have a list called “Training List”  where a training event is logged with the Training Date, Training PM and Training Description.As soon as an item is created in Training List, I would like to create an attendance list automatically with few items created. I use a list template with pre-populated list items  and use Create List Action in Nintex workflow to automate the creation of list.However, Once I create the List, I would like to update all the items with certain column values derived from Training List and send an email to the training PM with the link to the new list. The issue I am having is that,  I am not able to reference the list that is created in step 2 to use “Update multiple Items” action.  Can anyone please direct us on how to build this functionality? Thank you, 

I script my site setups and am currently creating Workflow History Lists by calling $spweb.ListTemplates["Workflow History"] and adding it to the site via List.add()This works but I then have to go into the Manage Workflow History Lists, highlight the list and click 'Enable'.There is not Enable() method on the workflow history list that is accessible to me after I get a reference to the newly created history list.This begs the question if I should be using a different template to create these lists and if not do yo know the method that is called to enable these lists?Thanks!

Hi,I'm having a problem searching for group in the Nintex form I created.This is my current form and I can only search for people in the fields Change Owner and Distribution. But some of the user will need to input group of people. But when I'm using the default nintex form there is a button for searching for a group and people.This is the default form. How can I get the action of those 2 buttons beside the change coordinator field

My process consists of once a new item has been created in a list, the list should call back to previous items and update a date field based on business and holidays. The only field I need to change is the date. The remaining can be copied.The reason for this automation is we have a SP calendar that contains all the same data except the date for each quarter. My goal is create a workflow that populates all data once an item is created. The changing factor is the date based on business days and holidays. I need to skip over Sat and Sun.I have managed to create this successfully using the Loop action. The problem I have is the time it takes to create each items, 5 mins, up to 30 total. My next approach was a For Each, the issue I have is leveraging a field that changes and can manipulate a variable to change the date. Basically stuck on evaluating the day of the week. Does anyone recommend a different approach or do you think the issue is with a unique identifier to instruct the work flo

I am encountering strange behaviour when editing the task form of tasks in a Nintex Workflow on SP 2013.The only browser that's working for me is IE11. When I try to save changes to Control Settings, nothing happens. I can't seem to click open the "Appearance" and "Formatting" headers either. I tried clearing the browser cache, without result.The debugger gives following errors:When opening control settings:SCRIPT5009: 'NW$' is undefinedmainscript.js (494,9) When clicking the save button:SCRIPT5007: Unable to get property 'InsertReferences' of undefined or null referenceJavaScriptStringHandler.ashx (88,203)Any ideas? This is blocking all work on workflows atm.

Hi everyone, I'm curious if anyone out there has discovered a way to use a workflow to move lists items to a subfolder within the same list. I've seen a number of threads discussing simply recreating the list item in a subfolder but have yet to see mention of a solution that will allow the original list item to be moved to allow the version history and original item metadata to be retained. I expect we would need to use the call web service action with the Lists web service UpdateListItems method but haven't been able to get this to work for what I need to do. Any clues are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 Symptoms When opening K2 Designer, the following error gets displayed:WIF10201: No valid key mapping found for securityToken: 'System.IdentityModel.Tokens.X509SecurityToken' Diagnoses This issue could appears if the Thumbprint is not correct. Generally appears if you do a direct copy-past of the Thumbprint: a special character is added at the start. Resolution Execute the following query on the K2 database and if a record is raised, please follow the instruction: Please fix this issue by deleting the first characters of the Thumbprint (Press several time the DELETE key) and retype it from the Claim issuer formSELECT 'Warning: The Claim issuer ' + [Name] + '('+ [Description] + ') have the field "Thumbprint" containing an invisible special character ' + char(13) + char(10) +'It''s a known issue if you copy past the Thumbprint from the certificate page.' + char(13) + char(10) +'Please fix this issue by deleting the first characters of the Thumbprint (Press several time the DELETE key) an

Hello Dears,I've created a workflow, and used state machine action, and everything is working good, suddenly, change state machine actions does not change the state machine and it completes normally. what might happened??Thanks

I have two lookup fields one lookup is dropdown and another is multip-selection. based on the lookupdropdown selection i would like to filter values in multiple selection.

 Symptoms We have an application using Smart Objects from SQL server, smart forms and smart views along with SharePoint groups for task assignments and permissions etc. now we need to create a copy the application and deploy it on the same K2 environment (basically a full clone of the same application with different URL and database/smart object/form/views).Is it possible to achieve and what are the best way/steps for doing this? Diagnoses regarding this clonning issue"regarding the Cloning and creating a copy the application and deploying it on the same K2 environment the answer is Unfortunately no. Currently There isn?t any easy way to do this.This ticket has been linked to an existing Feature request. (as this is not possible a the moment)AlsoWhat i say is that it is hard.you can ?save as? on the views/forms/smo then you have to remap the SMO?s and views and forms.There is sadly no ?easy? way to do this as far as I know ? but you will end up having a common artifacts category that y

Hello,I'm trying to see if there is a way to take 3 "Flexi tasks" that are running in parallel and send them to one approver in a single notification, I'm trying to avoid the approver getting 3 separate notifications. I'd like all 3 tasks to be sent in one notification and the approver could then independently approve, or reject, each task. Is there a way to do this in Nintex?

I currently have a SharePoint list that has title, reviewer, and due date. if a person changes the due date manually, i'd like to initiate  workflow where the manager approves/rejects the changed date. if the manager doesn't approve the date, the field doesn't get updated. I am stuck on keeping the date to it's previous value if it gets rejected. I am using Nintex 2010thank you

 Symptoms  The following error is being logged frequently in K2 host server log:   "Error","SmartObjects","10702","Error","SourceCode.SmartObjects.ServiceBroker [ExecuteSmartObject]","10702 An error occurred in the %SharePoint 2010 SI name% service instance. The request was aborted: The operation has timed out."  Diagnoses  You have specific service instance name in this error message which allows you to locate affected service instance in SmartObjects Services Tester (default location: "C:Program Files (x86)K2 blackpearlBinSmartObject Service Tester.exe") and try to reproduce this error using it. In this specific case we see "The request was aborted: The operation has timed out" which is with high probability indicates that GetList method is being executed against extremely large list without filters applied/with too broad filter (the fact that some of your SharePoint lists have increased/non-default list threshold configuration may be additional indication of that). Additionally you

 Symptoms Hello Bashar,For last one week we have been noticing abnormal behavior in both K2 servers in production, every evening 5 pm both servers have high CPU and RAM usage and servers stop responding. When users try to open worklist or any K2 form it either takes 8-10 mins or it just keeps on showing loader icon.We would like to check if there is any timer job or service running on k2 servers that is causing such behavior. This issue automatically gets resolved after 40 mins to 1 hour and everything comes to normal behavior. Diagnoses The respected customer found the reason was a group policy to delete borwser's cache at 5:00"Hello Bashar,It appears the issue was because of a group policy that deleted the browser cache of all users at 5pm. The policy was applied as part of some security requirement but currently disabled. We noticed huge amount of ajax calls being generated from client machine to K2 servers causing this outage.But now that we have identified the source I would like

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 Symptoms  Whenever you try to package and then deploy a form which contains Russian symbols in its name it can't be deployed after this. It is possible to see that package with form created in affected environment has somehow garbled name if we look inside of package/zip file - it is different from one with the same form name if package created in another environment which does not have this problem. The following error being thrown while deploying package with this form:   I/O error occurred. System.IO.IOException: I/O error occurred. at SourceCode.ComponentModel.PackageManagerService.ServicePackage.GetStream(Uri itemUri, FileMode mode) at SourceCode.ComponentModel.FileItem.OpenRead() at SourceCode.Runtime.Services.Forms.Services.FormService.Deploy(IDeploymentContext context) 0  Diagnoses  This error may occur on different versions of K2 (4.6.6, 4.6.11) and it is related with form system name which being encoded wrongly and stored in DB with question marks. There is an official KB wh

Hey,Does anyone know how to trigger the form's validations from jQuery (i.e. a Javascript button)?I'm looking for a proper solution, not just using a save button and somehow forcing it to return false;Using F12 dev tools on a save button I concluded that I had to use NWF.FormFiller.Functions.ProcessFormsValidation, e.g.if (NWF.FormFiller.Functions.ProcessFormsValidation(this, 'NfValidationGroupListFormformFiller', function () { }))but didn't have any luck with that...I found a similar question here: Nintex Form validations not triggering when using Client Click, but none of the replies seemed to apply to my question...Manfred Lauer​ any ideas?

Hi All,I have a lookup list for software, eg:Item                   ApproverWord                  Excel               Visio                    John SmithPhotoshop           Micheal WileyThis lookup is used in a Nintex form. Users can select multiple options from the list above. The result gets passed to a Single Line of text (but i could change that), with comma delimited values.How do I setup the resulting workflow to parse through the selected options on the form, and initiate the appropriate approvals. Let's say for instance all 4 were requested, the workflow should determine that Word and Excel are ok to be installed because they have no listed approver, while Visio requires an approval from John and Photoshop requires an approval from Micheal. I'd rather not have 4 workflows spawned off from the original but handle it some other way, such as a Loop. thanks

Symptoms  We have two different SAP servers at different locations with different listing IPs. Using K2 Connect we already created a destination for one server and successfully consuming the data from RFC. Now we have created a second destination, and we have enabled the port between K2 Q server and SAP Q server. Even though connection strings are different, K2 Connect is still trying to communicate with the first server with the second server's login credentials and getting failed with connectivity issue.  Diagnoses  - Connection strings used for the two destinations are in the following format: ASHOST=/H//S/3300 SYSNR=00 CLIENT=800 LANG=EN USER=user PASSWD=pass ASHOST=/H//S/3301 SYSNR=00 CLIENT=800 LANG=EN USER=user PASSWD=pass - Removing the /S/ portion allows the connection to proceed - Analyzing the network packets using Wireshark reveals that changing the SYSNR of the connection string allows K2 connect to connect via different ports. For example, SYSNR=00 connect to port 3300, w

Hi all,I am using this example as a starting point to build an Insert query from SP into SQL:Copying SharePoint list items to sql database ‌My input values, however, are in a collection. Is it possible to use the query to grab a value from a specific index in the collection? For instance, in the linked example:INSERT INTO Table1(Column1, column 2, column 3)VALUES('{WorkflowVariable:Collection*Index0*}','{WorkflowVariable:Collection*Index1*}','{WorkflowVariable:Collection*Index2*}');I know the syntax is wrong but just wondering how i could do this, if it's even possible.

Hi,I have an issue with my state machineI just have a problem with my second branch (7 branchs in all)Indeed, my state machine was stuck when it try to "change state".In that second branch, I have a loop that passed through a collection of manager.I send an email everytime. When the loop has been finished, I log into history a comment "End foreach".Just after the log, I "change state" to my third branch.The problem is :When I have only one loop (so one email sent), it work well and the workflow passed to the third branch.When I have more than one loop, the workflow was stuck in "In progress" status, no error in the workflow history and the last action is "Change state to third branch".Further informations :The workflow work when it passed between the first and the second branch.I have already remove & re-create the branch.The loop is work well in the branch and in another place in the workflowDo you have an idea ? Because I don't where the problem is. Hope, you can solve it.BRThéo