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 Symptoms User is unable to action tasks assigned although no error is being thrown. This is happening for all users assigned a task from a particular workflow. Diagnoses A custom application is used for approvals. Debugging shows that calls to execute the action are being made although it doesn't move on to the next event/activity. Resolution Re-created all the Client Events in the process and redeployed. 

When attempting to submit a form from Nintex App on IOS, getting the following message:Operation couldn't be completed Nintex Mobile Error 10001

 Symptoms After deployment via MMC, workflows will not start and cannot start them manually. When you go to K2 workflows for a list item to start a workflow it says that my workflow does not exist on the server. Diagnoses Since the Package was deployed using MMC the only user that has rights on the WF is the K2 Service account. The error is misleading and should read that the user doesnt have start rights. Resolution Granted Admin rights to the correct accounts.We have logged the Error message enhancement that error should state that the user (Mentioning username) does not have start rights.  

 Symptoms  Activity line merge does not appear to wait for all lines to complete meaning the Activity that brings all the lines together fire multiple times.  Diagnoses  This is a bug in the product Sample Repro 1. Create a new workflow 2. Add a placeholder with 3 outcomes 3. Add a placeholder at the end of the 3 outcomes 4. Add an email activity and configure the 3 outcomes to go to this activity 5. Select the merge to wait for all previous steps to complete 6. Change the Display Name of placeholder 3 to hang out and change the Display name of the email event to Placeholder3. 7. Run the workflow and note that 3 emails are sent.  Resolution For this case the design was changed to move away from this, but the bug is slated to be addressed in Appit 1.5 update 4 later this year.   

 Symptoms Workflows error out if you use the Email property from a Picker source using the Item Refeference and you are on a sub site. (Smartobject [YOUR SUB SITE_Management_K2Application] could not be found.) Diagnoses This issue only occurs on sub sites and not on Root sites. The Management Smartobject is only found on the root site and the bug is causing K2 to look for it on the sub site. Resolution We have created a Appit 1.5 Update 2 patch for this and can be requested from Support. The fix will ship in the next update end March.REF: 726286 or 714208 

The problemSo dealing with Active Directory and timestamps, not fun. If you go into the Attribute Editor in AD and look at a timestamp on a use, accountExpires for example, it's a huge 64-bit integer. How does that represent a time? More importantly, how do you get Nintex to turn it into a DateTime variable? The BackgroundAD timestamps (aka WinTime, aka FileTime) is the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since 01/01/1601 @ 00:00. You can think of it as how many 0.0000001 seconds have past since 01/01/1601. One think to watch out for is what happens when the user is set not to expire? This sets the accountExpires attribute to either "0" or "9223372036854775807" which is hex for 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. Best not to think about why Microsoft chose that, I've lost a few brain-cells trying to figure it out. Another hurdle to watch out for is that the earliest time that Nintex can deal with is 01/01/1900, so it can't go all the way back to the year 1601 to do the math. To get around that, we'll b

 Symptoms K2 is installing in Azure environment and the K2 database is hosted on SQL azure.When adding second server to an existing K2 farm, installation couldn't proceed at K2 Database window, an error appears"The sql server database configuration test failed as user has insufficient privileges: User does not have Security Administration Rights." Diagnoses This is a known issue. Resolution Please log a support ticket to request the hotfix. 

I am not understanding how the change the choice values when they are selected to: render as buttons.Here is what I have for now (based upon blog from Sean Fiene ):NWF$(document).ready(function(){    var changeMe = NWF$('#' + dd1);    NWF$(changeMe).click(function(){ var x = NWF$('#' + dd1 + ' option:selected').val();        console.log(x );        if( x == 'Option 1')        {            var y = ['tab1', 'tab2', 'tab3', 'tab4']        }        else if(x == 'Option 2')        {            var y = ['tab1', 'tab2', 'tab3', 'tab4', 'tab5']        }        else if(x == 'Option 3')        {            var y = ['tab1', 'tab2', 'tab3', 'tab4', 'tab6', 'tab7']        }        else        {            var y = 'error'        }        console.log(y);                var myTabs = NWF$('#' + dd2);        myTabs.empty();        NWF$.each(y, function(val, text){            myTabs.append(                NWF$('<option></option>').val(val).html(text)                );        });    });});Look

Hi, I'm realizing a workflow with Nintex Workflow and I have to customize also the task forms.My form layout is very easy: I've changed the logo and removed all displayed item properties, leaving only the Outcome, Comments field and the link to the workflow status.I've added only a label with a brief description of the task and two lines of javascript to set a default value for the Outcome field.Only default layouts (Desktop, Smartphone and iPad) have been realized, Smartphone and iPad with a replace from the Desktop layout. I've been very surprised when I've tried to export the form: it has grown up to 1,11 Mb.. I have 5 tasks in my workflow and because of this my workflow size is considerable more bigger than 500 Kb, so it doesn't respect best practices guidelines for workflows.. Do you know why my forms are so big? Do you have any best practices when designing a task form? Thanks Giacomo

I have a user that initiates a workflow by adding a document to a SharePoint library. The workflow assigns a task to an engineer of the initiator's choosing (via dropdown when the file is uploaded to the library). Once the engineer complete's their task, a new task needs to be generated for the engineer's manager. I can't use the manager context property because I don't want the workflow initiator's manager, but the task assignee's manager.I can use the "query LDAP" action, but it returns the manager's distinguished name. We could use regex to pull out the CN, but the problem with that is some users may have the same CN. We need something more unique.We do not have the Enterprise version so we do not have the query user profile action available to us. Is there a different way to find the manager of a task assignee?  Thanks!

I'm trying to find the manager of a task assignee. When I use Query LDAP to find the manager, it returns the distinguished name of the manager. We need to forward the task to the assignee's manager once the assignee completes the task. I thought pulling the username from the LDAP return:CN=<manager name> (<manager username>),OU=<OU>,OU=<OU>,OU=<OU>,DC=<DC>,DC=<DC>, would be the best way to go. I then could use that username to create a new task for the manager. I'm trying to get a grasp of regular expressions but it's been really confusing to me. Can someone assist in the right expression to use? Or if there's a better way to pull the manager of the task assignee that's just as good.*Note: The user initiating the workflow is not the assignee.Thanks!

If a workflow is canceled or has errored out, I need to update the list item to reflect a different status. (We have our own internal status for the process) How can I determine if the workflow was canceled or errored out and update the list item prior to the workflow finishing? 

Hello everyone,I've got a big issue with multiple forms in multiple subsites.I wrote some validation rules like this : isNullOrEmpty({self}) && equals(ExampleControl, « example »)It worked fine for more than a year.But, last friday, all the validation rules with "isNullOrEmpty" stopped working.The rule was supposed to work when my control "ExampleControl" (which is a choice control) was set on "example" AND the single line text ({self}) was not empty.Now, even if the "ExampleControl" is set on another choice than "example", the validation works.Even if the "ExampleControl" is set on "example" AND the single line text ({self}) is not empty, it works too.But it doesn't respect my rule.I saw this issue in other request with some replacement like instead of "isNullOrEmpty" => equals({self}, "") and it works. But i want to know why is this happening from one day to another.Thank you for helping me.

I know that you can embed a Nintex Form using a web part assuming that the Nintex form sits on the same site collection as the page you are embedding the form on. However I want to know if it's possible to embed a form on a page that sits on a different site collection than the one that contains the Nintex form.For example, if the SharePoint list/Nintex form sit on site collection ABC, is it possible to embed that form using a web part in a page on site collection XYZ?I know that there is the "Site URL" field when you "edit the web part" but that only works if the form sits on the same site collection. Is there anyway to specify a URL on a different site collection?

The SharePoint list has a column called ProjectID. There is a library which stores project documents that also has a column called projectID. I want to use a List View control  on the list form to display the project documents from the library. In the Filtering section: Filter listed items: By a control's valueWhere field: ProjectIDFiltered by control: Project ID After publishing and opening the list item: "The field with internal name "11111" does not exist in List <LibraryName>. I've also tried:Filter listed items: By a specified valueWhere field: ProjectIDFiltered by value: 11111 Same result.  By the way, Display all items works great. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you,Saeid

Hi,Just gone through a CRM2011 upgrade to CRM2016. I have many WFs with CRM actions. All WFs previously published are working (just changed global URL to point to new server URL)The issue is that I now get "Cannot connect to server" when I try to edit any CRM actions or add new ones.Installed version: Nintex Workflow 2010 (2.4.9.0) - Englishthe post https://community.nintex.com/message/15046 doesn't give me an acceptable solution (I believe that Nintex CRM actions are 2016 compatible on version 2.4.9.0)I'm not convinced at all that this is a Nintex issue but I'm posting this in the hope that someone can maybe point me in the correct direction of where the issue lays. Or should I log a support call as this is a big issue for us right now?Any help most appreciatedRegards

Hello All!Is it possible to deploy Nintex Mobile App with initial configuration string though MDM?For example, it is hard for ordinal user to enter "Site URL" manually. It is better to set defaults.I do not want to use Nintex Mobile Enterprise and custom apps, I only want to configure standard Nintex Mobile App .  

Nintex seems to do a nice job of hiding data types from the end user.  When debugging coersion errors however, the debugging of workflows can be quite daunting.  Clearly there is a data type mismatch between what the workflow is expecting to feed into the Update Item call and what I've provided. Fwiw, I've already reviewed a few other posts on coersion errors though not yet found a solution.  Scenario:  2 lists, List 1= Entities which includes a lookup column to List 2=Clients.  When the workflow creates a new Client and new Entity, I first create the new client and store the ID, then I create the entity and store the ID, then I attempt to Update the Entity with Client details.  Creating each list item works correctly, but doing the update on the lookup column isn't working and I feel like I've tried virtually every scenario. wfOwner1 is a text variablewfNewEntityId is list IDI also tried doing a Query on the Client List, storing the Client Name in a text variable and then attempted to

HiWe are looking at offline form capabilities and have a couple of products in mind.  We are hoping to upgrade forms to enterprise which should give us offline capabilities.Does anyone have any resources on what is and isn't possible in "offline" mode for Nintex?Thanks in advance.Cassy

Hello,I'm using Nintex Form on SharePoint and trying to use jQuery to it.I want to sandwich the Choice with DIV tag. But can't fine anywhere to edit html..And also want to set an ID to the choice.Like this:   <div class="block">    <div id="radios">            <input id="option1" name="options" type="radio">                <label for="option1">1 <br>year</label>           <input id="option2" name="options" type="radio">                 <label for="option2">2 years</label>           <input id="option3" name="options" type="radio" checked>                 <label for="option3">3 years</label>           <input id="option4" name="options" type="radio">                 <label for="option4">4 years</label>           <input id="option5" name="options" type="radio">                 <label for="option5">5+ years</label>     </div>    </div>Is there a way?

Hi,I have a List A having columns as       Title       -      Single Line Text       Name    -      Single Line Text       Location  -    Lookup   (on List B)I am trying to create items in List A through workflow by reading an excel file having three columns.  Title and Name are getting created correctly but nothing appears in Location column.  On checking log history it is found that intermediate workflow variable for Location have correct value.  Also the workflow throws an error "Coercion Failed: Unable to transform the input lookup data into the requested type.".I appreciate response as I have to create the list A with 700 items.ThanksSunil

 Symptoms IPC calls take 3 minutes to return to calling workflow Diagnoses When you are calling a sub process that creates a new folder in SharePoint using the K2 control. This executes in about two seconds however the sub-process takes approximately 3 minutes to return to the parent process.This is a reproducible issue, is there a way to help speed up the time it takes for the IPC to be completed? Resolution In regards to this issue you will need to do the following:Go to >>> Program Files x86 >>> K2 Blackpearl >>> HostServer >>> BinThen locate the file K2Server.setup, then search for the following:IPCSettings ExpireOnDelete="false" IPCThreadInterval="60"Set the IPCThreadInterval to '5, and save. After this you can do a K2 service restart, this should reduce the time of how it take for the IPC call to complete. 

Hello CommunityQuestion:Is it possible to run a "foreach" in a statemachine more than just one time?Problem:When the workflow runs "correct" (happy path) the "foreach" runs once (red arrows):State 1 -> State 2 -> State 4Now if we take the blue arrow path, the "foreach" does not process the collection a second time, the "foreach" will skiped.Can someone tell me what is the problem?State 1 -> State 2 (foreach run) -> State 3 -> State 1 (get all items again) -> State 2 (foreach will skipped) -> ...Hopefully I explained it clearly

 Symptoms Get no result from smartobject tester from CRM online Diagnoses After updating the app for K2 (Appit 1.5) I get no more response / result from the smart object tester when I try to use the get list method from CRM online.The Solution and CRM access is working, but not from the tester tool upon the management site. Resolution It appears that this is a limitation on the serialization grid on the K2 Management page and this seems to be causing the issue here.If you would like to retrieve data from the smart objects with paging it will be better to use the Smartform views and bind the smart object being queried to a list view.  

 Symptoms Issue after upgrading denallix VM to 4.7 Diagnoses After upgrading VM to 4.7 along with upgrading SharePoint K2 app to the corresponding version, You choose to create a list in SharePoint.When you try to open K2 app from ribbon, you receive the error in the support case below.Thread 1: Procedure or function ProcessListSharePointSetting has too many arguments specified.HelpLink.ProdName : Microsoft SQL Server HelpLink.ProdVer : 11.00.5058 HelpLink.EvtSrc : MSSQLServer HelpLink.EvtID : 8144 HelpLinkWill it be possible to help assist here ? Resolution Please contact K2 support to obtain a coldfix in regards to this.