Archive: Nintex for Office 365 Forum

My workflow is too much big(exactly: form is too much big for too many columns), so it's very unstable. workflows often don't work when I submit a form; tiny changes in workflow may causes workflow can't  work. This time, I just add some log Action,  the workflow doesn't work again. Screenshot below:  sometimes are:This problem may caused by MS workflow: SharePoint Online Workflows 

Hello Friends,There is significant difference between on premise workflow and office365 Nintex offerings for obvious reasons.Does any one know a page or place we can go to check latest developments on office 365 workflow.Many thanks,Nehal

When I click the Nintex Workflow button on top of a SharePoint Online list with only one small Nintex test workflow with only four actions, the status message remains 'Connecting to workflow' for an awfull long time. Pressing [F5] or [Ctr] + [F5]  and/or [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [Del] or closing and reopening my Firefox internet browser didn't resolve anything. Any help?

Hello Friends,Does anyone know if there is a way to get notified when the workflows get terminated or suspended?Any supporting information will help.Many thanks

On Nintex Forms, the Connecting Controls is not available for a specific Column Name with a "%" in it. Is there a reason these columns are not an option to connect to and the rest of them are? This is in relation to creating a Nintex Form from a Sharepoint and trying to connect to columns. Every other column from my SharePoint show up, even the ones with "?", but the "%" columns are not available.

Hi  One thing my testers have picked up is when they are assigned an approval task with a document link.  They click on the link and a local version is downloaded. Users are generally running a version of Office 2010  but this can occur with new versions.  Hence, I want guarantee that documents always open in the browser.  Now, in the Document library you can set this explicitly but I still get the issue. Here is a useful linkhttps://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Work-seamlessly-between-Office-Online-and-Office-desktop-applications-2d43ec7b-d173-4c06-91d7-7c5425990093?ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB&fromAR=1 One thing I wanted to try is to hand craft a link you seen in the preview dialog box  in my Assign Taskhttps://tenant.sharepoint.com/team/Document%20Library/My%20Document?d=w[UNIQUE ID] now the issue is the unique ID is not available in Nintex . So how do I get around this?

I have a "Projects" list in ANOTHER SITE and need to get the other fields that have relationship with my "Projects" list on Nintex Forms. I performed a test and it works on environment on-prem. Is it possible in Nintex Forms for SharePoint Online?

Is there a way to have the switch check for a value that is not hardcoded? I have a requirement where the users want emails 7 days before a task is due, 1 day before, and the day of. I am using one list workflow to accomplish this, and currently, there are three run ifs (that go one after the other). One looks for today == dueDateMinus7, the next for today ==dueDateMinus1 and the last one today == dueDate. I'd rather have this be a switch based on which of the ones "today" equals, but there's no "Advanced Lookup" capability for the "Switch Value" fields.

Hi Team, I want to approve/reject nintex flexi task when a user clicks on the button in an asp.net page.I tried to update directly the task list using .net CSOM code and updated the task status, the task is updated but the nintex workflow is not moved further.Could you please help me to resolve this issue?

In Nintex forms for SharePoint 2013 you can add images into your forms. We are using this to show examples of posters that need to be confirmed that they exist. On the mobile and tablet version of the form the images are "clickable" and open up a larger view of the thumbnail. Is there a way to do this to the images on the desktop? I've looked into making them buttons and using JavaScript to open the image URL (this does work on desktop), however doing this would mean extra work since the buttons wouldn't show up on Mobile and Tablet ( I would have to duplicate all the buttons with images for mobile and tablet). 

In the on-prem versions of SharePoint Nintex Workflows the column that is created when a workflow is published indicates the status of the workflow. However, in the Office 365 version of Nintex Workflow that column gets created, yet remains blank. Why is that column there? Am I missing out on something?

Good afternoon. Does anyone know what the best practice is for moving a generated document into a document set which is contained within the same document library using Nintex Workflow for Office 365? Unfortunately, you cannot specify a document set when configuring the "Document Generation" action (specifically "Output document library"). If anyone has any ideas it would be much appreciated. D

I have an Nintex Form for Office 365 list form that, when edited and submitted, needs to redirect to the Display Mode of the current item as opposed to the default behavior of going back to the parent list. To accomplish this, in the form's Layout Settings, I went to the Advanced section and set the Redirect URL to Item URL from the Common section. This works great when I'm editing an existing item. I submit the form, the "Working on it" message appears for a second or two, and then I'm taken to the display view of the same item. However, when I create a new item and save it, I receive the error message "Item does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user." I assume this is because the redirect is happening before the item is done being created. This seems to be verified by the fact that if I go back to the list, the item is there. I tried to resolve this by finding a way to attach a short pause to the redirect, but I couldn't find a workable solution given the available form

We're happy to see the new Print-to-PDF option implemented but we've got 1 form that doesn't want to print, giving an "Internal server error" message.  Despite removing the form javascript that related to images we still haven't got it to work.  Has anyone else come across things that are valid in the displayed form, but cause an issue with PDF generation?  Possibly validation javascript, CSS formatting, fields/text hidden or displayed depending on Rule conditions?

What is Error publising workflow. El servidor no permite mensajes mayores que 2097152 bytes???

How do you access Site Workflows in the new Site Contents experience? The Nintex apps aren't there anymore so there seems to be no way to author a Site Workflow if you have the new experience turned on. I noticed the apps are still working on document libraries and lists, but you can't see them on the Site Contents page.

The use case is this: we have policies which need to be reevaluated periodically. Compliance has asked us to set up a document library that prompts them to reevaluate the policy and send it through the proper approval chan. I've gootten the approval part completed, but now I'm struggling with the reminder portion. They are going to manually set a field called "Next Review Date." On that date, they want an email sent to them letting them know the policy is expired. The catch is that this date can change throughout the year. So if an industry regulation changes in September but the policy wasn't intended to be reviewed until January, they need to change the "Next Review Date" so that they're not reevaluating the policy again in a few months. I was going to use a loop action and have it loop until current date = reminder date but there's no way that I've found that Nintex can get "current date" in O365.

Hi  One issue I want to resolve before my UAT phase on multi stage (state machine) w/f,  is when I click on the Accept button on a Assign Task form, I am directed to the Workflow tasks list.  Obviously this will only confuse my testers as it is not clear why they are viewing this list; let alone what their next action might be.  Hence ,is there a smart way of redirecting my users to the document library that has the associated w/f? I have a 'cloud only' user account so not using outlook desktop should this be part of the problem . Daniel

I have a scenario where I need to completely lock a form when it gets to a particular status.  I have lots of calculated fields. What I need to plan for is if something changes for how those fields are calculated in the future.  Forms that have been locked will not update based on new calculations, but will stick to the old calculations. My initial thought has been to just create a new version of the form with content types.  Seems a bit more complicated than it needs to be though. New Content Type 2017 (with Nintex Form 3)Old: Content Type 2016 (with Nintex Form 2)Old: Content Type 2015 (with Nintex Form 1) As a new form is created, then i simply change the "default" content type of the list. Anyone have any better thoughts/suggestions?

Hi FriendsIs there a way to add Business days to calculate due date?Thanks in advance

Client want's to be able to answer Yes to a question in a custom list that will cause three of the fields to populate in another site in an announcements web part.  Is this possible through workflow? Thanks.

I need to set the permission on an item, when a multi-value people picker field is filled. The people definied here should receive “Edit”-permission on the current item.Regardless of which Format (Display name, Email, String,…) is choosen, the workflow always run into an error:"Der angegebene Benutzer {"__metadata":{"type":"Collection(Edm.Int32)"} wurde nicht gefunden"Any help would be appreciated.

On premises Nintex has 2 very useful webparts: workflows I started and my tasks.  (Circa 2013)I did not see them in Office 365. Do we still have this functionality? If it is missing, is there any guidance on how to build this functionality? Thanks

I have a datetime column in my list and in the workflow on a condition i need to clear (empty) the date time field. I tried to set 01/01/0001 00:00:00 but the column was not cleared and workflow not throwing error. Even i created a emty datetime column in the same list and try assigning value from that column but it is also no help. Is there a way to clear the datetime value in the item?

I have a document library with the standardard Document Content Type. I also have a Document Set Content Type. When I click to go to Nintex Forms, it does not take me to a page with the content types listed. It only opens the Nintex Edit Form for the Document Content Type??? Does Nintex not support the forms for the Document Set Content Type or something?Thanks,