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Starting Site Workflow for Office 365

  • March 29, 2017
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Hi,

 

I have created a simple Site Workflow in Nintex for Office 365, however I am finding it hard to start. I am new to Nintex Workflow for Office 365 but have 3 years’ experience in Nintex Workflows for SharePoint 2013 (on premise). In the latter one, you could start a Site Workflow by scheduling it. Is the option not available in Nintex Workflow for Office 365? If not, what are the other options for starting a Site Workflow in Office 365?

 

I have tried starting the Site Workflow from a List Workflow in the same site but am getting an error:

 

When I click on Suspended, I get this:

This is how I have configured the list workflow that is supposed to start the site workflow:

Is there anything I have wrongly configured here? I’ll really appreciate if you point me in the right direction, please.

12 replies

TomaszPoszytek
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In O365 there is no such feature as scheduled workflow‌. It's only available for on premises workflows so far. You can use a workarounds described in the forum or try 3rd party tool, from plumsail‌ (ex.: Anyone using Plumsail to schedule workflows? )

The second thing - I see that you are having a different name of the workflow shown in the "Workflow Status" pritnscreen (it says: "New Workflow") whereas your actions is configured to start a workflow having the name: "testing site wf". The configuration of the action looks ok for me. Should work as designed.

Regards,

Tomasz


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  • Author
  • March 29, 2017

'New Workflow' is the List Workflow and that is trying to start the Site Workflow called 'testing site wf'


TomaszPoszytek
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Rrrright... My mistake happy.png

But anyway it seems to be ok... This user has permissions to trigger the site workflow?


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  • Author
  • March 29, 2017

what permissions should the user have to trigger a site workflow, please?


TomaszPoszytek
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At least "Contribute" on the site level.


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  • Author
  • March 29, 2017

I have given myself owner permissions and now the error is a bit different:


TomaszPoszytek
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Are you providing the right password for the user?


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  • Author
  • March 29, 2017

yes I am.

just refreshed the password and got the same error again


TomaszPoszytek
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Maybe this solution: Unable obtain logon token, authentication failed. would work for you?


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  • March 29, 2017

Tried it. Still the same error sad.png


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I to have faced same error while using Terminate Workflow Instance.

Below the configuration details:

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Any other solution / option?


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After using a super user account which was configured as Tenant Admin this issue was resolved.

User Account with Site Collection Administration permission is in-sufficient in this case.