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The Regular Expression action is an extremely powerful action for splitting text, replacing text or getting data out of text.  Don't be worried about not knowing how to put Regular Expressions together.  There are a number of sites online that give you the basics of it.  In this post, I'll give you some quick tips on how to get data that you may need.Splitting TextThere are times where you will be getting data from lists, from web services, databases or elsewhere, where the data comes to you in a delimited form.  Either comma delimited, as in CSV files, or semi-colon delimited, as from some accounting systems or some other delimiter.  If you need to get the data into a Nintex Workflow collection variable, you can use the Regular Expression action to split the data based on that delimiter. Notice that the first data entry field to fill is in the pattern.  When doing a split, this is the delimiter.  The character or characters that will be used to split a piece of text.  The operation is

This xtension will add additional useful functions/functionality and connectors to NWC.I will continue to update this xtension over time, so feel free to bookmark this blog to keep an eye out for new actions and connectors. Included in this version of the toolkit is: Decode a Base64 File Encode a Base64 File Working Days Calculation Encode a Base64 String Decode a Base64 String Format DateTime Generate GUID Postgresql Insert Postgresql List Table Add Padding to String Convert String to Lowercase Convert String to Proper Convert String to Uppercase This function is hosted on Nintex’s Marketing Azure host and is free for anyone to use. If you want to host the function in your own azure function or have any suggestions for additional actions, please email andy.hayes@nintex.com  NWC Tools  This xtension is available for download from the Nintex Solution Gallery.Connectors - Toolkit for NWC. (nintex.com) Working Days Simple Calculation Calculate the working dates between two days. Calculati

In this month’s user spotlight blog, we’re talking to Mark du Toit, a Solutions Engineer here at Nintex. What is your current role and some career background?Solution Engineer, 3yrs, and I have played various roles within the Enterprise Content Management and Business Process Management fields, including (but not limited to), Principal Consultant, Solution Designer, Solution Engineer, Domain Architect, etc.Which Nintex Product are you most passionate about and why?Process Manager and Nintex Workflow, because I get to define processes and get customer buy-in using Process Manager, and then automate those workflows using Nintex Workflow… to see them come to life!What do you enjoy most about answering Community questions? I like the sense of community and supporting fellow process aficionados, it’s never great struggling on your own, and knowing that you have a community you can lean on for advice is awesome.Is there any advice you would give to users learning Nintex?Just keep trying… bum

Have you ever wanted to make the options displayed in a radio button control (single choice control) dynamic?  For example, we have a menu that changes daily across all three meal types (breakfast, lunch and dinner).  Here’s an example shown in a SharePoint list for today’s menu: In the past, if you wanted to present these dynamically, you’d have to create 3 choice controls (one each for breakfast, lunch and dinner) and hide the ones that weren’t needed via a rule.  Then when the user has made their selection, you also have to know to retrieve the value from the meal type that was selected.  All off this is pretty straightforward but at Nintex, we’re not satisfied with straightfoward - we want it to be fast and easy. So you might have seen @SimonMuntz’s recent post on using data source variables with the single choice control.  That’ s exactly what you’d use for this scenario. First, you have to set up your data source variable.  Here’s the help topic on doing this if you need some ass

Nintex is thrilled to announce new AI-powered process management, automation, and app dev capabilities across the Nintex Automation Platform. These enhancements help organizations cut time, costs, and inefficiency and transform employee and customer experiences.Newly available capabilities include:Process capture: Easily identify and document business processes with AI AI forms generator: Use interactive AI assistants to rapidly create digital forms AI workflow generator: Utilize generative AI to build simple workflows automatically Agentforce connector: Leverage AI agents in Salesforce to generate documents in seconds App development: Rapidly develop apps that connect to workflows to accelerate digital transformation, powered by a new, modern, no-code page designer experience K2 5.8 release: Take advantage of strengthened security, upgraded SharePoint integration, and native language support Licensing and permitting solution: Accelerate deployment of licensing & permitting automat

I was recently approached by a customer asking if there was a way to add an image into the email body of an NWC email. While the rich text controls let you do a certain amount of formatting (like lists and bullet points, or heading fonts), sometimes you just want to have more control over what goes into the email body. The solution here does require a little bit of light HTML, but it's honestly so simple, you can definitely get it set up even without any HTML or programming experience. The trick is, to set a text variable with the HTML tag for an image. Here's the code I used in my sample: <img src="https://gallery.nintex.com/assets/images/Community_Logo.png"/> You are going to need to find a place to host the image. If it's a company logo, you might not have to look any further than your own company's website. Just be sure to copy the image URL. The action you're going to need to use is "Set a Variable Value". You'll then copy and paste the HTML code above, and update the URL wi

In this month’s user spotlight blog, we’re talking to Wasim Cassim (Nintex_Wasim), a Senior Instructional Designer on the Customer Enablement team at Nintex. Wasim at the Fo Guang Shan Nan Hua Temple in Bronkhorstspruit (South Africa).What is your current role and some career background?I’m Wasim, a Senior Instructional Designer on the Customer Enablement team, and I’ve been part of Nintex for just over three years. I joined at the inception of our team, and since then, I’ve been deeply involved in shaping our approach to customer education. My primary focus has been on Process Manager content—both learning resources and how-to articles - but beyond that, I’m passionate about how we can strategically leverage customer education to drive product adoption and empower users.Before Nintex, I spent nearly a decade in the Legal Intelligence industry, working on content strategy and solutions for CX and product organizations. My background is a unique blend of customer experience, content, pr

To accommodate rapid Nintex customer growth, we are scaling out our FedRAMP data centers to ensure maximum performance, for Nintex DocGen for Salesforce GE customers. Get ReadyThe data center expansion will begin on March 17th, but you will need to get ready ahead of time. If you are a customer that uses Salesforce IP Restrictions in your Salesforce Orgs, check out the new DocGen IP Allow List to update your IP allow lists in your network and Salesforce settings. Once the data center expansion is complete, we will be applying enhancements in a gradual rollout.For future maintenance updates, consider subscribing to https://nintex.status.io/.  The Nintex team looks forward to delivering continued strong cloud performance, whatever your document automation need!

In this month’s user spotlight blog, we’re talking to Brent Read (brent_read), Solutions Architect for the Modernization team here at Nintex.  “How my puppy watches my kids Hockey games!”What is your current role and some career background?I’m the Solutions Architect for the Modernization team and I’ve been at Nintex for 9 years in May. I started here as a support Engineer and held several titles between then and now. Before that I was an Infantryman in the US Army for 8 years. While I was in College, I worked in a heart disease research lab.Which Nintex Product are you most passionate about and why?Right now, Nintex Automation Cloud since it’s the biggest part of what I do, but I’m leaning heavily into Nintex Apps to be able to work with both together since I think it provides a ton of capability that Automation Cloud needed. The ability to build custom pages for automation is a huge addition to the product stack.What do you enjoy most about answering Community questions? Community qu

The choice Single control now has an Insert tab for the choice options in the control’s configuration. This allows for a Data Source Variable to be selected.Inserting a flattened collection from a data source into this field gives you a dynamically generated list of choices.An array of objects can also be selected. When an object is select, two new fields will appear in the control’s configuration. The fields are “Option label” and “Option value”.Option label will display the text for the choices. Option value is the value that can be used elsewhere in the form or passed to the workflow.  For example, the option label may show a list of states of the United States of America. When the user selects California the Option value can store the value Sacramento which is the capital city.  This value is obtained from the Data Source Variable. For more information please see the Nintex Automation Cloud help files.https://help.nintex.com/en-US/nwc/Content/Designer/FormControls/ChoiceSingle.htm 

In this month’s user spotlight blog, we’re talking to Adolph J. Torres (LandsEnd), Senior Programmer Analyst at Baycare. What is your current role and some career background?My current job title is Senior Programmer Analyst. Career background: Eight years working with Nintex products. I’m on the Software Engineering team responsible for the intranet at BayCare, including 16 hospitals and 32,000 team members. Previously, I was a senior .NET programmer for fifteen years.Which Nintex Product are you most passionate about and why?Nintex Forms and Workflow products. Microsoft chose well to have Nintex as a BayCare vendor for our SharePoint Cloud Platform. Both Form and Workflow products are exclusively what my team uses for BayCare’s intranet. These Nintex products are extremely versatile, have really good training material associated with them, and a user community that is very active.What do you enjoy most about answering Community questions? I really like that the responses to my questio

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, companies are increasingly adopting application development to remove friction from their critical business processes. With a large pipeline of applications designed to drive competitive differentiation, application development teams must tackle these projects quickly and effectively. However, these organizations face a dilemma from an application development approach perspective:Build custom-coded solutions and navigate long development cycles; or Settle for low-code solutions that fail to fully meet their needs for automating complex business processes.The result?A high percentage of projects fail to deliver the intended value because they lack the capability to handle intricate use cases. Equally damaging is the heavy reliance on professional coders or complex tooling, which often limits the number of projects that can be delivered—further exacerbated by project overruns that slow progress even more.With the launch of Nintex Apps, we are clos

Nintex is thrilled to announce new AI-powered improvements across the Nintex Process Platform that are either available now or coming soon. These capabilities significantly reduce the time required to document, manage, and automate business processes.Start process documentation quicker and save time in automation programs with AI Historically, getting started with process mapping required businesses to manually document processes. The newest process intelligence features of the Nintex Process Platform allow businesses to automate an often cumbersome first step in the process automation process by integrating and automating the creation and tooling of process maps. New capabilities include:Process Capture (coming soon): Automate the creation of process maps leveraging the output of AI-powered text prompts and activity recordings captured from end users. This feature within Nintex Process Manager removes the need to manually document processes, while aligning processes across roles and e

Many Nintex customers have been asking about Nintex for SharePoint Subscription Edition (SPSE). Nintex is pleased to announce that support for SPSE is now available. Please reply to this post and we will look to answer additional questions. FAQQ: Will both Nintex Workflow and Nintex Forms be supported in SPSE?A: Yes, both will be fully supported.Q: Will all the existing functionalities / features in Nintex Workflow and Forms be available in Nintex for SPSE?A: Yes, all existing features will be available and there are no additional features or deprecation of existing features in Nintex for SPSE.Q: What workflow engine will Nintex Workflow for SPSE be using?A: It will still be using the SharePoint 2010 workflow engine. While SharePoint 2010 workflow engine is deprecated, this only means there is no longer active development, and it will still be supported by Microsoft. For more details on SharePoint 2010 workflow support, please refer here. We will evaluate and advice future options for

In this month’s user spotlight blog, we’re talking to Evgenios Efthymiou (EvgeniosE), Product Manager at Nintex.Evgenios EfthymiouWhat is your current role, how long have you worked at Nintex, and your career background?I am one of the Product Managers for Process Manager. I joined Nintex in February 2024 (~8 months ago). Background wise I studied Mechanical Engineering and worked as a Production Engineer and a Business Process Analyst within the Automotive Industry around Product Data Management, before moving to developing digital solutions as a Product Manager.Which Nintex Product are you most passionate about and why?Process Manager, because it's something I would have loved to have in my Business Process Analyst days. Maybe though I am biased because our Product team is responsible for it.What do you enjoy most about answering Community questions?As a Product Manager I have many ways to drive change in my product, but primarily that comes from enabling your team delivering the bes

In this month’s user spotlight blog, we’re talking to Anna Tadros (annajosephine), Product Manager at Nintex. Anna TadrosWhat is your current role, how long have you worked at Nintex, and your career background?I’m a Product Manager, Nintex Apps (currently focusing on designer experiences and Nintex Apps for Salesforce). I've worked at Nintex for 7 months. Before that, I was a long-time Skuid employee, working with the company on and off since before it was founded. At Skuid, I worked in documentation, technical support, and customer enablement. Which Nintex Product are you most passionate about and why?Nintex Apps! (formerly known as Skuid). I've gotten to grow up with the product. It's a good day when I can sit down and build something!What do you enjoy most about answering Community questions?I like getting to interact with people using Nintex products and learn more about  what they're trying to do. It's a great place to come to solve problems and get ideas for cool projects!Is the

It’s time for another release for Nintex Automation K2! You may remember last year we renamed the product to “Nintex Automation” and you’ll see that change in many of our sites including documentation and training, but you may notice a little sneaky bit coming back to the product name! Over time you’ll see us adding back in the K2, but don’t worry, it’s the same product you’ve known throughout the years by its various names.This year’s release (5.8) has one amazing, massive, beast of a feature that we can’t wait for you to get your hands on. Translations and localization is now native in K2:Full localization of Designer, Workspace and Management into Arabic, French, German and Spanish languages. This lets your designers, administrators, and end users work in their native language. With over 77,000 words and phrases in the K2 platform, this nearly 10 month project with multiple teams is finally ready for you. And, with the localization work, we’ve added ability for your SmartForms to be

We are thrilled to share what the teams have been hard at work on this past year, with great new features coming soon in the K2 5.8 release. Exciting things like:Full localization of Designer, Workspace and Management into Arabic, French, German and Spanish languages. This lets your designers, administrators, and end users work in their native language. And, with the localization work, we’ve added ability for your SmartForms to be displayed in multiple languages with one form. Enhancements to SharePoint including new permission methods, and the ability to migrate your existing add-in based solutions to Microsoft’s SPFx framework. Design time versioning for your workflow drafts, allowing you to save snapshots, download versions to compare, and roll back by editing an older version. And more!Excited yet? Register for our webinar at https://www.nintex.com/resources/k2-58-roadmap-update/ to see all the details, as well as the roadmap for K2. The things we’re planning for this next year ref