Archive: Nintex for Office 365 Forum

Hi All,I can not add the controls action in my Office 365 SharePoint site,Please advice.I can able to see the controls,but I can not able to set the properties.I am having full access for the site.Please response as soon as possible. Script Error in detail 

Hi I want my workflow to pick a date based on the  relevant Events in a Calendar list.  I can lookup an Event  (meeting start ) date based on a user selected category in my form.  I do however, want to go one step further by ensuring  the lookup can only select an Events in the future for the given category. When I try to add my filter on Start Date using Current Item: Modified I seem get bizarre string conversion errors at runtime such as String not recognized as a valid DateTime Note if want to use Modified in DateTime  format I simply get a runtime error.  Sigh ;-(  

I am creating Nintex form and one of the requirement is to be able to extract user information such as email address, department when a person is selected.  I am using o365 Nintex Form.  If this is not available on o365, do we have any alternative?

Hello,I have two lists - List A and List B.  Both lists have workflows configured so that they will start automatically when a new item is created.  If I click the New button and create a list item this works as expected  on both lists (the workflow starts). However - the workflow on List A has a step where it creates an item in List B.  The creation of the item works as expected but the workflow on List B never starts. Anyone have any thoughts about why the workflow on List B starts when you create the item manually but not when the item is created by a workflow? Thanks,Matt

I can upload Excel file from document library and upload Excel spreadsheet to items custom list through workflow??? For example my Excel file have 2 columns and 2 row defined and when I upload excel file from the document library named "Document library 1", through the workflow, this will upload 2 columns data and 2 rows spreadsheet exactly to previous Excel file in to other custom list named "Data document library 1", Item 1 and item 2 for example. And If I repeat de process create a Item 3 and item 4... Help... Thanks Federico.

Hi I have just come back from two weeks holiday to find serious issues with Nintex running in our tenant.  We are running a trial license whilst the PO is action by accounts. 1) Previously published workflows in production that reference choice fields ( check boxes) now  show errors in any Actions that references these fields in the designer. I have deleted this field in the main Form in my current workflow whilst I try to resolve this issue. 2) Perhaps more dramatic, is  I have not been able to open Assign Task Edit Form in either a new workflow or any existing workflows.  I just get the spinning wheel and after waiting 30 minutes I kind of gave up seeing my forms ;-(  Anybody seeing these issues and if so, can you please indicate any recent Office 365 or Nintex Workflow for Office 365 changes.  Daniel

I am getting failed to fetch an access token error when trying to execute a very simple send mail action on the workflow.  Any suggestions? 

Hi I can see the Document Generation Action is going to be great for pre-populating forms etc. However, when I want to auto create a pdf version of say company document on approval, then I am struggling to see how this helps.  Has anyone else found a solution this? Daniel

Hi All, I want to start SharePoint Designer 2010 workflow from Nintex Online workflow. Also while starting the workflow, I have to pass few Initiation parameter to the SPD workflow. In Nintex Online Start Workflow action, there is no option to pass initiation parameters. Is there any way I can pass parameter to SPD 2010 workflow?

What way or ways are there to hide the Save button that is built in at the top of the form. I have other buttons that are tied to controls on the form itself and do not want users to be able to save with the button at the top. Options suggested using CSS did not work. I beleive they were not for 365. Anyone have any success or option for doing this?Thanks,

I have a workflow that starts/stops a secondary approval workflow. If the user does certain actions, it needs to terminate the existing approval workflow (if running) and start/restart the approval workflow. Using the Terminate Workflow Instances and Start Workflow action (one after another) takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. What is the deal with it taking that long?  Anyone else see this type of slowness?

 We have no ribbon in the nintex Forms Designer. We use nintex for O365.Any help appreciated.Mario

So I have a site workflow that runs daily that is supposed to look at a list and find ones where the "Next Review Date" == Today. For items where this is true, it's supposed to set the columns "Status" and "WFStatus" to "Expired" and then begin a list workflow for these items. The list workflow then checks to see if "Status" == Expired and if "Next Review Date" == Today and then complete some actions if so. The issue I'm having is if there is more than one list item where "Next Review Date" == Today. For the first one, it does everything correctly. For the second one, it doesn't update the field values, but it does start the workflow. But since the conditions in the List Workflow aren't met, the list workflow exits. Here is how the Query List Action is configured:I tried having it give a separate output per column as well, which didn't give any different results. Here is what's after the Query: And here's how the For Each is set up:I can see in the Site Workflow logs that it is seeing

Nintex for us defaults to US central time (like date/time item created). We need it to always show the date in South Africa time, which is either +7 or +8 depending on the time of year, for a Send Email action. We could do a tedious if date between this, add 7 hours or else if date between this add 8 hours, but just curious if there is a quicker and easier way to accomplish this?

So what you are supposed to be able to do is open a specific form by referencing its content id in the url string. This works....sometimes. what i typically do is something like this:https://SITENAME/Lists/Projects/EditForm.aspx?ID=ITEMID&ContentTypeId=CONTENTTYPEID This is farily straightforward, however there are times when it opens a different form. It usually appears to be the last form opened or edited... Has anyone seen this or does anyone know of a better way to create a link to a specific content type/form?Thanks,

In a site workflow, got following error in query user profile action:Error querying user profile. UserProfileDBCache_WCFLogging :: ProfileDBCacheServiceClient.GetUserData threw exceptionSystem.TimeoutException I didn't get this error consistently. The query user profile action is in a loop. Sometimes I got the error in the first record, sometimes I got it in the middle of the loop, that means there were successes in querying user profile for some records. I saw some suggestion to increase the timeout limit in sql server, I checked it and it is in 600 which is 10 minutes. I am in sharepoint 2013 on premise. Thank you in advance for any advice! Alex

I have two date fields: Start date and End Date. I am trying to find a way to validate that the end date is greater than or equal to the start date. If I used datediff, it gives me the number of days difference between the two dates, but only as a positive number (e.g. 1/8/2015 & 4/8/2015 = 3; 4/8/2015 & 1/8/2015 = 3, so using this to catch where the second example would normally be -3!! I have looked everywhere to try and find a simple solution....HELP!!!

Does anyone has answer to my question? The need is to capture picture with mobile phone and send it to SharePoint image library, which is showing those pictures on the front page as image slider. Does Nintex Mobile support image library?

Why in the task form, when I write in specific multi line textbox field in the form and save this form, and this field is connected with one multi line text column in the list sharepoint, the text that I wrote in the form, not shown or added in the list in sharepoint??? The multi line text column in the sharepoint is single text format, not is rich text. The control in task form is added from this list column. But does not update this column in ths list. Federico MS.

Hello friends !Can any one advise on subject question?thanks,

When updating an item in a custom list I want to copy the updates to a another custom list with exactly the same columns.I have created a simple Nintex list workflow running on modified items. As the target list is in another site collection I'm using the  "Office 365 update items" action.This goes fine with text columns, note columns, and single value option columns.But I also want to copy updates between user columns, multi value option columns and multi value lookup columns.I keep running into two scenarios - either an empty value is copied into the target column or the workflow fails to run with this message:[InputMetaDataXml] : The 'Fields to update' is invalid. Input string was not in a correct format I have tried various combinations of the available source and target data formats but haven't found the right combination yet :-( I would expect that no conversion should be necessary as the target and source columns are of the exact same type. Please point me to the authoritative g

Is there a way to export a nintex form from sharepoint 2010 to office 365? I have been trying the export and import functions but it doesnt like the XML output from forms 2010

We have some new company policies and we need each employee to accept the policy. I'm trying to determine the best path to achieve this. I didn't know if I should take the Office 365 Word Doc and copy its contents to an Nintex Form and include a button to "Accept" or maybe even use the new Adobe Sign tool. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hello,I need to move a document from the library in Site A to a library in Site B.  In addition the document needs to end up in a specific folder within the Site B library.  The Copy Document action does not allow you to specify the library.  The Office 365 send document to repository action requires the content organizer feature which negates the whole point of copying a document to another location. Anyone know how to move a document from a library in one site to a library in another site?Thanks,Matt

Hello,I have a list that contains user accounts.  When trying to perform an O365 User Profile Lookup you need the User Principal Email address associated with the O365 account (this is really stupid).  There is an option to format the User Field for an email address but our User Principal Email addresses are not the same as our Primary Addresses so this formatting retrieves our Primary Email address which causes the lookup to fail.  The UPN email can be found by formatting for User Account but it gives you the full claims account (i:0#.f|membership|someone@domain.com). How can I strip off the claims portion "i:0#.f|membership|" so that I have the correct email address to perform the User Profile Lookup? Thank you,Matt