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Workflow is not running actions properly. While checking the workflow history, it is showing workflow is complete but the action set is showing in yellow rest of actions under action set is showing in the green. Please find the screenshot  

Escalation "Complete task" is not working.   This is a document review workflow and the reviewers have 4 business days to review the document and add their comments if they have any, then complete their task.   I have tried using just 1 day, just 1 hour, just 5 min (all individual of each other) and nothing has worked. The task never moves forward.      

I have a list of people and their supplemental jobs outside of my business office. I would like to send an email on January 1st of each year to ask if they are still working at this other job and to update any information about the list item. I have done for each workflow on list's but I am not sure on how to set this up to only run on January 1st of each year and to send only to the people that do not have an end date populated in their list item. 

Hi there,Nintex tells me that I am using an invalid path while trying to create an AD user.That is funny because the path is build together with the help of the "LDAP-Path-Picker" provided by the Nintex action "Create AD User" itself.The path is as follows:LDAP://OU=NurWorkflow Benutzer,OU=Benutzer,OU=Customer-Intern,DC=ads,DC=customerintra,DC=deI am not sure about the space between LDAP://OU=NurWorkflow and Benutzer,OU=Benutzer,OU=Customer-Intern,DC=ads,DC=giraintra,DC=demight this be a problem? The user has appropriate rights, I checked that beforehand.Any ideas or advice?Cheersmai-kel

Hi there,I am currently setting up workflows for a roster I need sent to an external client and I've set up one successfully but the second one I've set up (nearly identical to the first) keeps bringing back "Error operating on collection variable. Index property is greater than the number of items in the collection." I understand this usually comes back when a collection does not contain the same number of values as the others but these collection operations are collecting data from the same list as the first workflow I did and mostly the same data with a few additions. None of the values are null. I think there is something I'm not seeing or a syntax I've gotten wrong. I know exactly which Collection Operation is my problem but I cannot figure out how to fix it - Google research has failed me. Here is my workflow currently:Sorry for the crappy disjointed image. Here is the configurations for each action.I won't show you all the collection operations as there is 9 but they're all the

I am trying to send out a weekly calendar notification to a few emails every Monday. The email will just list the names of the people who are on vacation for the week. I am able to query the list from Monday-Friday only, but my problem is that the query returns a list of names in their raw "person or group" form. So I get a ";" delimited list of people that looks like:    i0#.t|ttcperson1;i0#.t|ttcperson2;i0#.t|ttcperson3  etc...   Normally, to display the persons name without all the junk, I would set a new "person or group" variable equal to the list variable and choose "display name", but in this case there are many names.    My first idea was to loop through this list and at every index set a variable to be the display name of the current index but I have not had any luck with this.    Any ideas would be amazing!  

Hi  I have the following use case. From looking on User Voice and seeing @EuanGamble comments I'm hoping this might be possible in the new data connectivity control. (This is also something that I can currently do on premise with nintex forms enterprise for sharepoint)   At a school we would want a parent (has user account in our AD) to login into the form. Knowing the username we take the username as a parameter to a stored procedure, which returns a list of their children. (typically studentID as value and Student name as the display value). This would allow the parent to pick their children from a defined list. We could then further take the studentID from the selected item on the control as a parameter on the second control which would return regarding the student (eg school year, house, etc).   While I have mentioned SQL, I guess we could make this work with a web service as well.   @EuanGamble Would this scenario be feasible with what is on the development roadmap for NWC forms?

Hello. Before I start, this post is for informational purposes only. Please, if you use any of the following do it on your dev uat first! I've been using Nintex Workflow for quite a while now on our 2010 and now 2013 farm. A few hundred users and a couple of hundred workflows later and I came across a post about workflow history lists and maintaining them, with warnings about slow downs when approaching 5000 items. On inspection my largest list had 50,000 items in. Whoops! Time to start cleaning! Based on the following links this is how I approached it...   https://community.nintex.com/community/build-your-own/blog/2015/09/16/how-to-purge-large-history-list-and-dboworkflowprogress-table (Blog no longer available) So first we need to identify which lists have largest items. I used the following SQL on my UAT which had a recent copy of prod.     Select 'Sites and Lists' as Type,w.Title as SiteName,w.FullUrl as SiteURL,w.Description as SiteDescription,w.TimeCreated as SiteCreated,l.tp_Tit

I have a List Lookup Multiselect control. This control is in a panel that is hidden/shown based on a drop down. When this dropdown is changed, I need to clear out data so nothing is retained that is not applicable. I have achieved clearing out all other controls, but this multiselect control is not working when using this line in the console:   NWF$('input:checkbox').not(this).prop('checked', this.checked);   If I put that piece of code on a button in the Client click, it will clear out the checkboxes. But I need to put it inside a change function. Please help! 

Hello everybody, I would like to share my solution which took quite some time to find. Maybe it can help somebody. Recently I needed a workflow that extracts the contents of .eml-email files in a library. As the mailcontent was base64-encoded and no out-of-the-box solution was provided by the workflow designer, I had to come up with something. Writing a custom inline function would be obvious but because then a .wsp has to be deployed which causes an IIS-restart which needed to be announced and scheduled due to company-processes. So this was no short term option for me. Also using an external webservice was a no-go as of data protection reasons. So finally I found a solution which includes the SQL Server SharePoint uses. In this way I don't leave the SharePoint-environment and don't have to deploy anything.The only thing necessary is that I had to ask my infrastructure collegues to create a new native sql account which gets the server role 'public' only to prevent any abuse.    Then I

Hello, I have an issue and I was wondering if you bring light into to situation. I have a workflow that I worked on, that copies to two other list but I need the workflow to also calculate how much  per diem does the person get if the trip is approved based on the type of trip. thank you, for your help in advanced. Now the Type of Trip is a drop down list. for example if he choices training trip that would be $100 multiple by the number of days he will be on the trip. I started it but I do not know where to end.  The calculation must be done on the workflow.

I have a Nintex Form that has a 'Status' drop-down field. ANY TIME the status of the form changes, I want the user to be required to enter comments, either new, or additional comments. So, even if the status of the form is 'Closed,' and someone re-opens the form and changes the status to 'Open,' I want comments, and if they go back in and mark it 'Closed' again, I want coments required too. So, regardless of what the status is, anytime it changes, I need comments required.    Is there a way to do this??    

Hello, I have three forms( form A, form B & form C). I need form A and form B to fill form C with there information. How do I create such a workflow? 

Hello   I have a choice drop-down field with a lot of options to select from.The question is, is it possible to hide certain options based on if status = "xyz" Example: DuplicateReviewedAcceptedAssigned   I like to hide Accepted and Assigned as soon as Status is not in "pending" anymore. Maybe this is possible via the $ and css   Would appreciate your assistance.

Hi all,   I need to validate a customer date within a form. The rule is: date must be this year or last year. I was not able to get this running.   My thoughts: 1. get customer date year  vCustomerDate = formatdate(CustomerDate, "yyyy") 2. get last year vCustomerDateMinus1Year = vCustomerDate - 1 3. create string vFirstDayLastYear = "01.01."&&vCustomerDateMinus1Year 4. Convert string to date 5. Compare CustomerDate with FirstDayLastYear   I was able to do the first two things, but failed with point 3. Recommandations are really appriciated.   Cheers mai-kel    

Hi, After runing windows updates on Sharepoint server we are reciving the below error on our Nintex workflows: The workflowname workflow has ended unexpectedly for testing.Workflow workflowname was canceled by System Account.   Checking also i tried to edit the workflow and to publish it again and i'm getting soap server was unable to process the request. See below screenshot with error. When i tried to create a new workflow with "Send email notification" only i can publish it without any issue. For workflows that are more complicate with "assign tasks" i'm not able to publish them. Is there any microsoft framework compatibility issue? I'm running Sharepoint 2013 on Windows server 2012 R2   Any help on this issue?   thanks in advance  

Hello,   I am having trouble pulling collection ID's in a for each loop. Scenario:   Applying this to a site workflow.   I have overdue tasks that need to be emailed to users in individual emails. Now, I have managed to pull the entire table to highlight overdue tasks but I can only manage to collect that into one email and HTML table for a notification.    I am looking to send multiple individual email notification to the assignee with their respective tasks that are overdue.    I have made a query to pull individual assignees that have 1 or more overdue tasks. When I put this collection into a for each loop and try to query the collection of ids for these tasks it simply comes up blank?   Is this possible, please!?     I   

Hi all,  I need some help to show me how I can re-word the "Context Item Display Name" in Request Approval filed . I need to change it to make more sense for the users.     Regards 

This solution exists: https://community.nintex.com/t5/Community-Blogs/Filtering-large-List-Lookup-dropdowns/ba-p/77508   However, I can't get it to work. I just need someone to potentially dumb it down for me some more. I have followed it step by step. This is exactly the solution I need and would greatly appreciate some help.   Thanks!

How to get who completed the task in a group   without relaying on Workflow History as it can be purged anytime.      

Hi,   New to Nintex so I may not be going about this the right way.  We are using Nintex forms and haven't really used the workflow portion and still use the default workflows built into SharePoint.  Can I use Nintex to customize the default SharePoint task form?  I have attempted to do this, but it doesn't appear to be working.  Maybe I am not selecting the right task form or maybe it is not possible?   Thanks!

There are multiple posts regarding copying list attachments to another list but how do we get the Base64 for each attachments of a item in a list? 

Hi Everyone -   I have a Nintex Site Workflow running once a day.  The purpose of it is to compare some fields and update a Status column (for all of the items in the list) accordingly.   It seems as though workflow it set up correctly and is successfully running as I need it to.  HOWEVER, I keep receiving a 'Workflow errored' email every time after it is run.   I have tried to add Pauses or Commit Pending Change actions, but those have not seems to help.  Can anyone have a look and see where I may be going wrong here?  Thank you so much! 

I am trying to create a workflow that would send an email to a list of recipients, which will contain calendar event items. The calendar is for "Vacation Days" so the only information I need to show is the names of the people on vacation for that week. the Workflow is supposed to run every Monday, and show events for the whole week.    I have tried a for each loop to store the column information. This didnt work because of my time constraints.  I have also tried "query List" but I am having trouble for the same reason as above. Any suggestions would be fantastic.

We are trying to move a large Sharepoint site 60 GB from one content database to another :: but Move-spsite is failing becuase of the database deadlock at source content database level on below stored procedures . It looks like some in progress workflow in caisng the problem.  Below are the 3 stored procedure where we are seeing the deadlocks.  dbo.ScheduledWorkItems dbo.proc_GetRunnableWorkItems dbo.proc_DeleteInProgressWorkItems   Questions i have : 1. How can we avoid suck deadlocks at content database level while using the move-spsite .    2. Is there any way, we can pause all the "in progress" nintex workflows before using move-spsite and resume them once the Site is moved to new content database,