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IntroductionThis is another question that I’ve run into more than few times over the years: “How do I interact with this date field? It won’t let me type anything, I can only pick the date from the pop out menu.” And the truth about it is that there is no concrete answer on how to interact with these types of controls. Each of them is built differently and each will need to be handled differently. Lucky for us, the Date/Time field in Nintex Workflow Cloud Forms is a perfect example of this question. In this blog, I’ll go over how to handle this field in NWC Forms and hopefully provide enough information in order for you to take the methods and apply them to the date fields in your business application. This relies heavily on another topic I posted about previously, manipulating the Rules of an action. If you’re unfamiliar with this topic and haven’t read my other blog post about it, check it out

Sometimes when managing Person or Group variables and fields we need to fetch specific attributes from that entity. For example, what if I want to retrieve the Login Name of a user, or their email, display name, or ID? This can be done easily by using an easy to overlook functionality known as the Format Value function, or Return Type function. It is noted as a small orange icon with an FX as a arithmetic function symbol. This function is available in many configurations of fields within actions. As seen below in the Send Notification action, I am specifying a workflow variable pnManager to be the value of the TO: field to send an email to a user. I can click on the icon to specify a return value. The options available in o365​ are Display Name, Email Address, Login Name, and User ID Number.

Have you submitted your nomination for the 2020 Nintex Solution Innovation Awards yet? If you haven’t – good news, we’re extending the nomination deadline to April 3rd to give you more time. Nominations are open to any public or private sector organization that uses Nintex, whether that’s a single Nintex capability or a combination of capabilities including Nintex Promapp®, Nintex RPA®, Nintex Drawloop DocGen® for Salesforce, Sign powered by Adobe Sign, Nintex Workflow, Nintex Forms, and Nintex Mobile. The nomination process is easy: We want to know who you are, what capabilities you’re using, how you’re using them, and why. You can download a copy of the nomination form to draft your nominatio

The other day I had a customer ask if they could have a field to enter Celsius and have it calculate Fahrenheit.  Without hesitation I replied, "Absolutly" and quickly proceeded to build an example of how to do it.  This post is a quick run down of how I did it.  It is super basic, but great for those that are calculating values on a Nintex Workflow Cloud Form for the first time.  Step 1Go to the form designer inside of Nintex Workflow Cloud. Add the Number type control to the form and set it to Decimal and Automatic. Step 2Create a Decimal Variable and place your formula inside of the variable. This example is a sum variable that looks like this.  sum([Form].[Enter Celcius]*1.8)+32 

Most of us must have come across challenge where forms in Sharepoint Online is taking a much longer time than expected to load. This could be caused by different factors, and one of the factors is believed to be the custom list size, especially the number of columns you have in your list. Based on official document, the number of column limits can be up to 276 for the Single-line-of-text coloumn, but when come to performance it might not be a good idea to have your custom list designed to have such a big number of columns.  Based on the experiences of one of my partners, by reducing the number of columns for one of the problematic forms from 100+ columns to below 50 columns, the performance has improved from around 20 seconds to below 10 seconds to load the form. Reducing the number of fields for a form to below 50 is not viable most of the time, so how could be reduce the required number of columns for a list but still have as many form fields as require

I am going to share configuration examples of Execute SQL and Web Request workflow actions for Office 365. The example I used is based on the previous post by Dan Stoll on Sign your name across my heart and my previous post on Extending Nintex Mobile Signature control to desktop/browser to demonstrate how the Nintex Signature Control example could be used for a Shipping or Delivery Order scenario of business process. I have simply modified the Title control to enable the barcode scanning feature, and renamed the label to Item ID as shown in the below setting of the Title (i.e. Single Line Textbox cont

 I am trying to create a cascading drop down in Nintex Form, but the filtering by a control’s value its not working (the filter works by a specified value).The control works perfectly on our site, but not at the site of a customer. This is the XML error that occurs when the page loads <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="htt

I was asked recently to explain how Microsoft Flow could be integrated with Nintex Workflow Cloud. The point of the question was that Workflow Cloud provides enterprise level workflow capability, so it supports custom workflow connectors via the OpenAPI/Swagger definitions. In this article I'll explain how we can integrate Nintex Workflow Cloud and Microsoft Flow, leveraging the Nintex Workflow Cloud's Xtension framework to sync Microsoft Outlook calendar with Google Calendar. Calling Nintex Workflow Cloud from Microsoft Flow1. To call Nintex Workflow Cloud from Microsoft Flow, I have created a Nintex Workflow Cloud workflow with an external start event as shown here. I have also included parameters I want to bring over from Outlook Event to sync with Google Calendar Event (in this example, Event Title, location, ID, Start date-time and End date-time).

In my role as a sales engineer, I come across many unique use cases that are new to me but may apply to other organizations. The subject of this blog involves a prospect that wanted to have approvals as part of a workflow but route them based on the starting character of a string. The prospect was in Education and the administration of the school wanted to route approvals based on the starting character of a Student’s last name filled in a Petition Form using Nintex Workflow Cloud. There were a collection of counselors that oversaw students based on their last name starting with A-F,G-M,N-T, and U-Z. Doing this type of routing takes a bit of craftiness, but can be done using the following actions.         Apply a Regular Expression – This action is needed to extract the first character of the string. The input value should be the field/control from the Nintex form you want to use as the basis of r

Introduction“I am trying to login to Nintex RPA but it isn’t letting me in! What do I do?” This is a question I’ve gotten a lot since the release of Nintex RPA Central - and honestly, it is a pretty loaded question. There are a lot of pieces to look into when someone asks this question. Let’s take a look into each of these pieces and walk through how you can troubleshoot this problem on your own. I am going into this assuming that all the installation instructions have been followed, found here. The ProblemA new user opens Nintex RPA and is met with a login screen. Upon entering their credentials, an error message is

 When moving to the cloud, the identification of what content needs to be migrated, and understanding if associated workflows can be supported, is a complex process. The success or failure of any migration to the cloud often hinges on proper pre-migration planning and strong management throughout the project. For existing Nintex users moving from SharePoint on-premises to SharePoint Online and into Nintex for Office 365, Quest now offers even greater capabilities and services for migrating SharePoint content, Nintex workflows and now forms, up to the cloud.  If you haven't yet heard about the Customer Loyalty Program (CLP), it is an incredible offer that the team here at Nintex has put together for current on-prem maintenance customers to help them make the move to our subscription platform in the cloud. As part of the CLP Nint

New Features and EnhancementsProcess Discovery AdminIntroducing the Process Discovery Admin (formerly the Orchestrator)  New Discovery page (formerly, "Pipe") and AI Engine page (formerly, "Algo Settings")  The default value of MinShowsPerVariant has been changed to 1 (instead of 2)  Robot RecordingImproved process mapping for emulator applications  ArchitectureThe installation folder default has changed  Bug FixesAfter log-out, the application does not kill the session properly  Incorrect username in Discovered Process Report User recordings after disable --> enable robot not saved Wrong process count when using multiple tenants  For more information- refer to the attached document. 

Sometimes it's needed to count some characters on a string on a Nintex Workflow This sample shows how to calculate it with 3 actions. The used actions are:  I set a variable named myString with the value 123-1234-12345    Then I create the following variables      Firstly I count the total characters on my string using the action named "Convert Value"   Then I count the characters deleting the character you want to count ("-" (hyphen) in this case) , from the string

In this article, we have provided an interactive guide using Nintex Promapp that walks you through a step-by-step process for the Know-Your-Workflow script. This process shows you how to download, run, and generate your workflow consumption reports within your SharePoint on-premise environment. However, if you are not familiar with the Know Your Workflow script, it's recommended to review this article prior to proceeding: Introducing the Know Your Workflow Script. Nintex Promapp Process: Run the KYWF Script

When you are desiging a workflow, Allowing a task to be sent out to multiple users/ approvers would be helpful in some situations. In Nintex Workflow Cloud, we are planning to support it in future (https://nintex.uservoice.com/forums/430063-5-nintex-workflow-cloud/suggestions/37195216-assigning-task-to-multiple-approvers). In current version of Nintex Workflow Cloud, we can achieve it by calling a sub workflow. I use the following workflow as an example:  I want to assign a task to three difference email. First of all, create a form to accept three emails.And then, we can put those emails into a collection

Do you know what you are doing? Are you doing what you are supposed to do? Workflows can automate a lot of repetitive tasks. Building them with NWC can be a very quick process. The problem is that sometimes knowing what to build requires multiple departments, communication, approvals etc. Trying to chase all that down can be tough to quarterback. Not with Nintex Promapp. For this article I am going to reference a common use case… Contract Redlining.  Let’s say I have users working in Salesforce to close deals. They are dynamically generating their contracts with Nintex Drawloop and sending them to a workflow as a delivery option. The magic of this use case happens in the Nintex workflow. First, based on the Salesforce data model there is an approval based on the discount given. If there is a discount

ProblemOften I have workflows with approval (assign flexi task) actions in that usually run the same generic course:On approve, change status, send notification On reject, change status, send notification asking for updates Now I love the out of the box “Common” properties that can be utilised in workflow such as Approver Comments, Current Date etc. but what I think is missing from here is a link to the item in edit mode (if someone knows how to solve this problem more easily please let me know). Often in the reject email the text will say something along the lines of: Your request has been rejected for the following reasons: {Common:LastApproverComments}Please address the issues and resubmit using the link below: Edit item URL SolutionI was pointed to this awesome article by a colleague that describes the different page types

IntroContinuing from my previous blog post, found here, in this post I am going to outline how I took that list and used it within my botflow to click on each link one at a time. If you did not read that previous blog I published, the goal for my botflow is to go into each city detail page and gather some information before making a decision. Working on this particular website there were a couple of hurdles to overcome, which have been the inspiration for these blog posts.   The problem with this website is that nothing is in a proper web table, using <table> tags. Instead, everything is in a <div> format, which s

I have come across this issue a number of times in the past and more recently forgot this could be a root cause - so want to share the knowledge and also link my uservoice suggestion to this post... ScenarioSomeone in the company wants to add a suggestion to the suggestion scheme.  This could be sensitive or not, so the permissions are determined for each suggestion in the workflow.  For those that are not sensitive, the suggestion is open to all.  For those that are sensitive, the suggestion is open only to the investigating team. IssueThe suggestion goes through an approval route.  It is first assigned to a team of reviewers (SharePoint group) who can approve and choose an "Investigator" using a people picker on the approval task.  This updates the underlying list item, completes the review task and assigns an investigation task to the selected investigator.Note - this workflow was dev

One of the most exciting announcements with the latest drop from the product teams this month would have to be "Execute SQL" from O365 no less..http://help.nintex.com/en-US/O365/Default.htm#O365WorkFlow/Workflow%20Actions/Execute%20SQL.htmYES, this means you can execute SQL from the SharePoint Online platform to your internally hosted SQL servers. This does have some caveats though. Note: The database must be internet-accessible.For this post I'm going to connect to my Azure SQL server.. Ok so first of all get your DB setup with some tables.. I used this to get me started.

Hello world and welcome to my first blog of 2020! My oh my, this year I am so thrilled to share some great technical content that will showcase features, updates and new releases to the Nintex platform. Now before I dive in, I wanted to take moment to give a BIG shout out to my fellow colleagues that make up the Presales team here at Nintex: burked, DocFather_Ray, MMachado, DavidStephen,  JohnHernandez,

Hello, In this blog I'll walk through taking an existing Nintex Form for Office365 that publishes to a list and extract that data from the Sharepoint list into a document using Nintex DocGen.  Hopefully you found that video helpful! Please leave me your thoughts below or reach out on twitter! @sayhellotoryan  Cheers,Ryan

Hello, In this blog I'll walk through taking an existing Nintex Form for Office365 that publishes to a list and extract that data from the Sharepoint list into a document using Nintex DocGen.  Hopefully you found that video helpful! Please leave me your thoughts below or reach out on twitter! @sayhellotoryan  Cheers,Ryan

 Moving to the cloud can be a daunting task for even the most seasoned SharePoint users and administrators, however now more than ever the benefits now far outweighs the effort required. Cloud services have seen a huge uptick in recent years as more and more organizations move workflows from costly on-premises solutions to managed cloud services. This session on moving to Office 365 and SharePoint Online with Nintex will provide an overview of the migration process broken down into three main parts: Planning your SharePoint migration with Nintex Understanding some of the technical considerations you should know before moving to the cloud Reviewing the capability differences between Nintex for SharePoint On-Prem and Nintex for Office 365 Make sure to check out the resource

What steps can be taken to improve accessible experience on Nintex Forms?Tab Based Forms Create Tab like functionality on your Nintex Forms Tab-based Layout Solution Creating Tabs in Nintex Forms  An example of making Nintex Forms elements focus-able with tab-index and JavaScript?InFORMed: Customize Your Nintex Forms JavaScript Events in Nintex Forms Manage focus on a form using keyboard comman