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Thanks to KuanChiang Lui‌ to provide this Trick.Below is the example output response from SOAP web request. The return output in XML format.  <?xml version="1.0"   encoding="utf-8"?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"   xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"   xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">   <soap:Body>   <AddListResponse   xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/">   <AddListResult>string</AddListResult>   </AddListResponse>   </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope>  By using the XPath expression, we able to get the value of [AddListResult] and saved it into variable for subsequent action. XPath format: //soap:Body/descendant::*[name()='<Node name>'] //soap:Body/descendant::*[name()='AddListResult'] Try it in "Run Now"Other example:  XML XPath Result <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoa

One way of looking at extending the Nintex Workflow Platform is to focus on the smallest unit of processing: the function. This series of posts will look at how you can approach your function as a portable unit in the Nintex Workflow Platform. I'm going to look at defining the boundaries of your function, what you need to host your function, how the Nintex Workflow Platform can help delivery your function to workflow designers in your enterprise, and how you can set up the interfaces to your function to deliver your solution to targets inside and outside of your network. Table of ContentsSmallest Meaningful ProcessYou can think of your function has a self-contained thing in the Nintex Workflow Platform. As a self-contained thing it is portable. All that you need to execute your function is a runtime. The function can execute inside of the Nintex Workflow Platform within a workflow, or it can run outside of the Nintex Workflow Platform as a web service that can be incorporated back into

Many of you have noticed that Microsoft has introduced a new personal productivity tool, called Microsoft Flow, to replace the now deprecated SharePoint Designer and some of you have subsequently built out some flows. Now you want to take them to the next level by integrating them into the enterprise workflows you've built out with Nintex Workflow Cloud. But how can it be done? Well, the great news here is that your Microsoft Flows can easily compliment your Nintex Workflow Cloud (NWC) workflows! Below, I step through what the flow and workflow actually do. Then, I step through setting up the NWC workflow and the configuration of the HTTP web request from Flow to an External Start enabled NWC workflow so that you'll have a real world example of how it all works. In this fictitious scenario I tie together several cloud assets: A GitHub repository simply called "hello-world" which my dev team uses for an internal development project. When Issues are logged in the repository, they can hav

In this second post to the series, Function to Microservice with the Nintex Workflow Platform, I look at how you can add your function to Nintex Workflow 2013 as an inline function. In these posts I reference a console application containing a function that converts a XML to JSON, or JSON to XML. The function will end up in a workflow that takes a string of JSON from a SharePoint list, passes it through a String Builder Action that contains the inline function, storing the result in a workflow variable, and then storing the result in in the list. Table of Contents Inline Function In Nintex Workflow 2013, an inline function, also known as a string function, is a .NET Framework static method that can be used like any other workflow reference in workflow actions. Nintex Workflow 2013 parses, evaluates, and resolves the reference by invoking the method and replacing the reference with the value returned from that method. After developing your function in a custom class that contains the st

This article is not strictly Nintex, as it could apply to any workflow engine.We manage our Change Control process using InfoPath forms and Nintex workflow.For a management overview and reminder for when approval request emails are missed, we needed a dashboard page that would show all outstanding approvals and those assigned to the current user.Two methods were identified to provide this functionality – the Nintex webparts and custom list views of the WorkflowTasks list.This is a summary of our requirements Requirement Nintex Webpart Custom Listview Display the ID of the item being approved N N Link the item being approved to open in the browser Y N Group all approvals for each item N Y Ability to Approve from the page Y Y Ability to Delegate from the page N Y  Whilst the Nintex webpart allows the current user to respond to a task if s/he is the one

Products: Nintex Workflow 2013, Nintex Workflow 2010 This PowerShell script will do the following: Create a new SharePoint Content Database Create a new SharePoint Site Collection and assign it to the newly created SharePoint Content Database Set the SharePoint Content Database to not allow any new Site Collections to be associated with it Provision a new Nintex Content Database Create a 1-to-1 Mapping with the SharePoint Content Database and the Nintex Content Database Activate Nintex Workflow and Forms Site Collection Features Activate Nintex Workflow SubSite Features PowerShell Script #Load assemblies Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue   $assemblies = "Nintex.Workflow.Administration", "System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionStringBuilder"   foreach($assembly in $assemblies) {     [void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName($assembly) }   #Set variables $hostname = "http://contoso.com" #Set web appli

1. Web service requests as preparation    1.1. Website context information   1.2. Authentication – Form Digest   1.3. List property ListItemEntityTypeFullName2. List element creation or modification   2.1. Set text or number columns   2.2. Managed Metadata Columns   2.3. Setting People Picker columns within a site   2.4. Setting one or more people picker values across site or site collection boundaries3. Sources  It happens repeatedly in projects that during a Nintex process, values of Managed Metadata columns must be set.Example: the user fills out an application form. After the user completes and submits the form, existing items in a list must be updated or new items must be created in a list – whether in the same site, another site, across site, across site collection, or across web application. If now Managed Metadata must be set, then the question arises very fast, with which Nintex action can one do this? After several tests the result was: with “standard” Nintex actions like “Co

Web Service ReferenceThe following section provides an overview, and describes the service operations and data types, of the Workflow web service included with Nintex Workflow 2013.The Workflow web service provides administrative functionality for Nintex Workflow 2013. You can perform many of the functions normally managed for NintexWorkflow 2013 through SharePoint Central Administration and the Workflow designer, including: Exporting, saving, and publishing workflows Starting and terminating workflows Scheduling workflows Retrieving information about running workflow tasks Processing and delegating task responses for workflow tasks, including Flexi task tasks. Retrieving workflow history for workflows Service endpointThe following URL represents the service endpoint for the Workflow web service, where <site> represents the SharePoint site used to establish context for the service operations provided by the endpoint.http://<site>/_vti_bin/NintexWorkflow/Workflow.a

Since we launched Nintex Workflow for Office 365 building workflows with task actions hasn't been as simple or as easy to use as we’d like. Today we've rectified that by releasing a new capability into Nintex Workflow for Office 365 called Task Outcomes.With Task Outcomes, workflow designers can quickly and easily create and view multiple outcomes for tasks that meet their process need, even if they have three or four different possible outcomes directly from within the workflow designer. Faster and easier to designBy default when you drag on a task action, you can now see that there are two outcomes, Approved and Rejected and their associated branches, which you can easily drag on other actions to further define what you want to occur depending on the outcome.Whilst in many cases the Approve and Reject outcomes are sufficient, it is important to give the designer the flexibility to configure the outcomes to meet their specific needs, perhaps using Yes and No, or adding a third option

Nintex Workflow has actions “Web Request” and “Call HTTP Web Service” which can be used to make calls to the REST API of SharePoint Online/2013 to automate creation of SharePoint groups in a site collection.Add the following steps to the workflowCreate a Text variable GroupName and Use “Set Workflow Variable” to assign it to a value. Get request digest from targeted site collection. Please note that workflow app permissions need to amended to give site collection full control access.        Add “App Step” action Add “Web Request” action. Fill in the following fields URL: <siteURL> /_api/ContextInfo Method : POST Content type : application/x-www-form-urlencoded Header Name (Key) : Accept     Header value: application/json;odata=verbose Body : Choose “Content” option  and enter “{}” in text field UserName: Credentials who has access to targeted site Password: password of above UserName Store response content in : Create a variable “digest token” Add “Query

Hi,I am unable to import my workflow.My list got deleted and so i have created the list again. I am export of the workflow. When I try to import the workflow, on clicking import nothing happens.I am working on Nintex 2013 on SP2013Any help

Needing some help...I created a new workflow, using a submission form to start.  The form submits fine, and it is able to use data to create a Sharepoint list.  Next step is using Generate Document action.  I loaded an excel template, and used "Open Nintex Document Tagger" button to open tagger and copy variable text into fields.  Whenever I run the workflow, the generated document still shows the variable text and is not being replaced with the form data. Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?  See below screenshot for example... 

This question was raised by one of my business user and I do not know the answer to it. So reaching out for your assistance.In case of NWC when the email is sent to external address, what happens if there is a bounce back? How do we know that the email that was added in the workflow initiation form did not reach to the recipient? Any ideas?

I have several pages that have a link to Add a New Item to a List with an Attachment. Let's say Pages A, B, and C. After the new item has been added and they press Submit, I want the user to go back to their previous page, wherever they started from. If they started on Page A, I want them to go back to Page A. If they started on B, return to B, and so on. I do not want to direct every user to Page X because that's not where they started. I have searched the 'net and could only find some javascript that reportedly got the previous page url, but then there was no additional help on where or how to use that information. And when I put that code into my page in a Script Editor Web Part, I press OK and my page crashes and will not reload. Many links that I have found are outdated and only contain other links that no longer exist. We are NOT allowed to use InfoPath.We are NOT allowed to use SharePoint Designer. We are using SharePoint 2013. Can anyone please help?Thank youSusan

Hello,I'm new to Nintex so any help is appreciated.How do I utilize the repeating control - as shown below?I was able to build what I need within the form but I can't connect it to my sharepoint list column "Facility" and "Annual Savings".Any suggestions???    

How would one edit a custom workflow status that was added via the Set Workflow Status action ?This article doesn't address it: https://help.nintex.com/en-us/nintex2013/help/Workflow/RootCategory/Actions/Nintex.Workflow.SetCustomWorkflowStatus.htm  Thank you.

Here are the workflow status codes which are required, for example, you want to filter a view on the workflow status. The status enumeration is defined by the SPWorkFlowStatus enum, within the Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow namespace in the Microsoft.SharePoint assembly.In case if you are retrieving the list values in a SQL Reports using the SharePoint provided web service you will get these status codes only and not the text values. Including exporting a list to Excel.    NumberMember nameDescription0NotStartedThe workflow has not started.1FailedOnStartIndicates that the workflow encountered an error when it started.2InProgressWorkflow is currently in progress.3ErrorOccurredAn error occurred during the execution of the workflow.4StoppedByUserWorkflow execution was halted by a specified user.5CompletedThe workflow is completed.6FailedOnStartRetryingIndicates that the workflow is being retried after it failed to start.7ErrorOccurredRetryingIndicates that the workflow is being retried aft

I have written the following codecan anyone tell me where am I going wrong?NWF$(document).ready(function() {     var  fromShortcode = NWF$("#" + choiceCode);    var  toShortcode = NWF$("#" + shortCode);    var dp1 = fromShortcode.val();    NWF$('#' + shortCode).change(function() {  alert(dp1);  alert(toShortcode);  if (fromShortcode == toShortcode){ alert("same values in both the field!");   }  });    });

I have edited my workflow, which I must admit is now quite sizeable due to the many features I have implemented. I was able to save and publish the workflow fine yesterday, but after making some additions to the workflow today I am able to save the workflow but not publish it. The error message I'm getting is: "nintex failed to publish workflow error in the application" ...or something along those lines. I have attached the workflow to this post, so that someone can tell me if I'm not using best practice. I have read about breaking the workflow down into smaller parts, but I don't really know what this means or how it's achieved. Any help would be great, I'm on a deadline! Thanks

HelloAnybody else has experienced this as well, where you change the Workflow Settings and then publish it but when going back into the settings, the old settings are still there.For example:I have changed "Start when items are created: Yes" from "Condional" but uppong publishing it, and gong back into the settings, it is still set to Conditional.  However, renaming the workflow title to something else, the changed data is updated.Why can I not save data on the existing workflow title? I have deleted all workflows, purged all the instances and yet is still same issue.Why does this happen? How to resolve this?I would rather like to keep the current WF title and not change to something else.

I'm trying to use userProfileLookup to return "PreferredName" but it's returning "#Value!". The formula I first tried was userProfileLookup(Current User, "PreferredName") from Retrieving User Account Display Name with Nintex Forms - Nintex Knowledge Base .I even tried doing a substring of the first 7 characters since normally CurrentUser returns "i:0#.w|domainuser" but that didn't work either. I read through Returning displayName using userProfileLookup and a separate thread where the fix was creating a site at the root level. Neither was my issue. I should also specify that hardcoding the domainuser in the calculated value doesn't work either. I have no idea why this isn't working for me. Anyone have anything different I can try?

Hi Guys, I have been using InfoPath and Nintex workflows for a long time and I recently purchase Nintex Forms to try and phase out my old InfoPath forms. I have a problem which I tried to find answers but with no luck. I have different site collections and I want to utilize list from a site collection while I am on another site collection? This functionality is quite big for me as I have my HR data stored in it's site collection (HR) and I want to use this data in all the other site collections for different purpose. I know with lookup InfoPath would allow you to do that as long as you have access, is this functionality available in Nintex Forms? The source SharePoint site functionality only looks at sites in the current site collection. Regards Bhuti

Dear all, I would like to know if there is any action in Nintex workflow that can help me to check if user exists on AD or User Profile. Reason being some users left the company and workflow trying to read the user names and it is stuck and throwing errors. Please advise and I appreciate your help and support. Thank you!

In our post What is a Center of Excellence (CoE) we explained that there are three approaches that your CoE can take, Centralized, Decentralized, or Hybrid; then, in our post What is Business Maturity and how does it influence your CoE?, we touched on how your approach will influence the way that Roles and Responsibilities are allocated between your CoE and your Line of Business (LoB).     In this month’s post, I’d like to focus in a bit more detail on how Roles and Responsibilities of Process Management can be shared between the CoE and LoB, as well as how you can implement and enforce them using Promapp.   When it comes to process management, there are a few activities that you’ll need to consider – while the following is not an exhaustive list, these are the ones that I’ll dive into during this post: Creating and enforcing a Process Management Framework Process group design Process ownership Process creation, maintenance, and improvement   Creating and Enforcing a Process Managemen

Hello,My company wants me to learn K2.net 2003, I am totally new to this technology. Can someone assist me with study materials and other required stuffs which can help me to learn K2.net 2003.Many thanks in advance.Regards,Mandar