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So I made a rooky mistake and thought I would share so that you can all see that I am only human too, and sometimes, no matter what experience you have working with certain technologies, oversights can be made...I had a very old solution (not mine) that used an InfoPath form and a workflow that run on all updates with a Run if action at the very beginning checking if the email flag was checked.  This had been working fine for a long time but the customer reported that they wanted the form slightly changed.In good old fashioned InfoPath style, it informed me changes had been made in the list that needed to be reflected in the form (and rather unhelpfully didn't elaborate on the changes).  I needed to add this change for the customer so I accepted and published.  User was happy for a day or so until they realised that one of the dropdown controls had become unbound...!I won't bore you with the details, but here is what I did.the column was missing for whatever reason in InfoPath time was

Products: Nintex Forms 2010, Nintex Forms 2013SummaryDesigner wishes to hide the Form Footer when Nintex Form is in View or Edit Mode. ResolutionNintex Forms uses the 'nf-form-footer' class:The following CSS Class will need to be placed in the Nintex Form Settings > Custom CSS section of the Forms Designer: .nf-form-footer{         visibility: hidden !important; }

Sometimes as a developer usual channels don't work.  My colleague and I tried for several hours to extract a base64 file from a document library using "/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx" in a Nintex Web Service component.  We could see the correct SOAP output after using the internal run command. But alas, after compiling, the workflow, the web service returned nothing. Being a SharePoint Developer for over eight years, it was time to write a web service to talk to Nintex.  Since it had been awhile since I had written one, I turned to Google for help. To the rescue came Rob Windsor's Video and Blog on the Subject of creating a SharePoint Web Service: Creating a Custom ASP NET (ASMX) Web Service in SharePoint - YouTube Walkthrough: Creating a Custom ASP.NET (ASMX) Web Service in SharePoint 2010 – Rob Windsor's Weblog The Weblog is for SharePoint 2010 in the video, Rob explains the changes needed for 2013. For those unfamiliar with Rob, he is a gifted instructor with some heavy-duty SharePoint course

Many times we might have noticed an email notification saying, "A scheduled workflow failed to run. Check the workflow is not already running or in an error state". I recently faced this issue and my mail box was flooded with emails notifications.And there is no much information in the email except it is pointing to the workflow's schedule page and to workflow's status page.When checked ULS logs and found an exception, "Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The sepcified user or domain group was not found". Then I check for the user who scheduled the workflow and that user was no more working and his id got removed.Fix: Open all schedule workflows's schedule and click "Save" with different user. Best practice: It is best practice to publish or schedule the workflows with a service account on PROD environment.Other details: There could be other reasons to fail the scheduled workflows, below are the some helpful links to troubleshoot.1. Link12. Link2

Meltdown and Spectre present 3 different ways of attacking data protection measures on CPU's enabling attackers to read data they shouldn't be able to. (Scott Manley does a great job of explaining this YouTube Link)   So what is Software vendors doing about this? The easy point to control this kind of operation hack is at the operating system level. So the main place to block this hack is with a patch for the operation system (Microsoft has already release patches for this so if you are up-to-date as of Jan 2018 you are in a good spot.  Microsoft and the other major operation system providers have already prepared patches which effectively changes this speculative computation mechanism to avoid exposing kernel memory data.  What impact does it have on Nintex Products.    It impacts all software respectively as it hits performance & throughput on servers Intel based CPU's.  What you need to do?Make sure you are up-to-date with your operating system patching!#  Nintex security patch

Enterprise-level clients demand the highest quality of business continuity support for their solutions, and rightly so when they service hundreds of thousands of users. For this author, getting to work with one of them to setup Nintex Workflow 2013 in a highly-available environment was as fun as it was challenging. In this blog post I offer guidance for enterprise-class, highly available on-premises Nintex Workflow 2013 deployments using one or more off-site DR farms. TopologyOur topology is a standard two-farm solution with SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise and SQL Server 2014 Enterprise. Farm A is our primary farm. Farm B is our disaster recovery farm. We can fail-over manually to Farm B if needed at a moment's notice. Fail-over cannot happen automatically, but planned fail-over can happen quickly without down-time and without data loss. Here are the basics: Farm A and Farm B are completely separate SharePoint 2013 farms operating independently Each farm has two (2) SQL Server 2014 n

While Linkin' Tasks could certainly be the name of an amazing new alternative band, I would like to use this post to highlight a scenario that a fair amount of you may have faced while building a workflow: You assign a task to someone and wanted to get the Task ID or URL associated to the task itself while the task was pending but found out you can't! This seems to come up often when: People are building with a List Item first approach and want the ability to build the task item URL to embed in the initial form. This is not unlike using a single InfoPath form to drive the data collection and approval process or have users navigating in and out of the initial form often. There is a need to write the task URL to a another list, backend database, or LoB for increased 'findablity'. Now you may be thinking to yourself, "Just hold on a second... I can just create a variable and store the TaskID in it when I configure my task in the workflow designer! Bam!".   But... and it's a big but... The

Scenario and requirement:In one of our project client was looking to add edit attachments in the course of running workflow. In task form you can drag the required fields (like text fields, dropdown fields etc) to edit directly (making some field level NINTEX configuration) but when you drag the attachment field in the task form you will simply get ‘True’ or ‘False’ value as a Boolean one. ‘True’ comes when you have attached any attachment in the original form during submission and ‘False’ if you not. You can’t even display the attachment/s in the task form by default NINTEX propertiesand so there is no question of edit at all. But we can display it by configuring some workflow components and ‘Web Service’ calls. So, the situation is bit complex if user wants to add/edit attachment fields in course of running workflow.Solution:One of the solution you can use is to put a link of the original form (Since ID of the original item you can access from inside the task form) inside the Task fo

I'm excited to talk about the Base Form in Nintex Forms for Office 365.  This gives you the ability to create a base form for a site, that all your Nintex Forms will start from when you create them. Imagine having different sites in your tenant (HR, Finance, Development) and each one would like a slightly different logo and background color.  Now you can do this at the site level.  The result is simple branding that can done once and any future forms will start from that.  It also means that if you happened to have any custom JS/CSS in a form now, you can put that into JS and CSS files, link those into the base form so that your future forms will automatically link those in.  This results in single point of modification if any rebranding needs to be done, and all your forms will inherit it, rather than having to modify 100 form designs. First, make sure you have the latest version of the Nintex Forms for Office 365 app.  If you already have it, you can skip over the next few step. Late

If there was one piece of advice I could give you, it would be to wear sunscreen.  If there were two pieces of advice, it would be to wear sunscreen and come to xchange 2018.  You'll need that sunscreen in San Diego!  Think about all the Nintex-related things you do throughout the year: ask questions, attend user groups and other related conferences, attend webex updates and place support calls.  Lots of stuff right?  Well think of all that crammed into a couple of days.  That's what xchange is all about. I've attended the two previous Nintex conferences and come away from both full of motivation, ideas and a quest to make the world a better place through digital transformation. Let me start by telling you about one thing that isn't officially promoted: fun, fun and more fun!  Each day is jam packed with interesting topics that you will lean so much from but that's only half the equation as far as I'm concerned.  The second half is to make those important connections inside the Nintex

Ali G would be beside himself, if he knew what he could do with Nintex Mobile now. Booyakasha! And it is with great excitement I announce MASI (or Multi Account Sign In) support.. "Wat iz dis ?" you ask, well to put it plainly it means you can login to Nintex Mobile now and create your profile as mentioned here Nintex Mobile introduces Profiles, and adds Forms Based Authentication support​, and associate multiple logins under the 1 profile. Where this will come in super handy is when you have On-premise and O365 deployments and you want to be able to show forms in Nintex Mobile from both environments. Also for the admins, it means you can have your test account logged in and your prod account logged in, so you don't have to log in and out of the different environments when doing testing..  The experience begins with the user entering an email address and selecting “Next”. This begins the profile creation experience.The user then selects the type of account they wish to add to their pro

Description:I have seen lot of developers like to put all the fields of original list inside the task form to give the exact look and feel/functionalities as like of the original form. This type of development have pros and cons from both side. Pros: The task and the original form is having the exact look so that user can't distinguish and also can view/update the original list fields from task form on the course of running the workflow. Also reduce the headache of developers to develop. It's cool.Cons: If we design the task form as like of original form, the size of the workflow get increased and consume more RAM during the run time. And if the instance of the workflow running inside the RAM get increased, its execution time, loading time etc. also get increased. Also mimicking all the task forms as like of original form, increase the development time and violates the re-usability principle. Underlying Risk:Now the situation is very risk. If user find the task form is taking substanti

SummaryHow to configure a Rules to only validate if controls are visible. SymptomNintex Forms Validation will still trigger on hidden form controls, even though the control(s) was not intended to be validated. CauseThe below example shows a form with a Choice control used to show/hide a second panel. The second panel contains a Multi line text box that is required. A formatting rule has been created, which is applied to the panel control:Also, a Validation rule has been created to require data in the Multi text box:If the user is not required to show the second panel and tries to submit the form, they will still see the Validation error: ResolutionThe Validation rule will have to trigger if the required control is visible (in this case the panel) and the Multi line text box is blank:The below form will show that only the required 'Test' field is needed to submit the form and that the Mult line text box validation is ignored:

There have been many occasions where I have mentioned how one could take geolocation (GPS) metadata, usually collected from a Nintex Form, and use that to find a physical address.  So, hot on the heels of a great blog post (Latitude and Longitude UDA from a clever fellow named Vadim Tabakman), I decided to put some of my thoughts down in a more concrete way by conjuring up this post and sharing with you all some pre-built workflow logic that will allow you to perform this kind of reverse geolocation lookup with Nintex Workflow without having to build it yourself! But first, let's go over some use cases for this kind of data. Then, a brief explanation of how to build this and, lastly, links to download the workflow, form and UDA samples. Geolocation Metadata Adds Context to your Data Here are just some of the possible use cases for this type of functionality: Collection (the form)Incidents (safety, remediation, compliance, etc.) Customer service improvement (Know where and when your fie

So this morning I was trying to write to a date & time field on a button click on the new responsive forms designer. I clicked on the button settings > Advanced > Connected To but in my list of columns, my Date & Time column wasn't there. It appears that only the text based columns can be written to here. This was frustrating, especially as you can write the date and time to a text column using the common references. Ah-ha, I wonder? Let's see. That light bulb moment you just witnessed was me thinking, if I set the button to write to a Single Line of Text (SLOT) using the "Current Time" reference, I get myself a date and time, that's fine, but no good for reporting really, I want my datatype to be Date and time, not just a string containing the date and time. Nevertheless, I published the form and knowing that my button was configured how I wanted it to be, then in my list, head to the List Settings, head to the SLOT column settings for the column I've just connected my b

You can download the Nintex Form, Workflow and List template here.   Introduction  Why Document Generation?Consider this scenario where departments wants to create a Human Resources NDA for external vendor, Sales department requires sales quotes, Management requires report etc in various Office formats such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.  These processes are extremely manual and tedious as follows:Ad-Hoc documents Take too long to create Opportunity for errors And most importantly, no integration with other systems.  Therefore, hampers the productivity of an organization. What is Document Generation (DocGen)?        Nintex Workflow helps to generate documents by connecting relevant department, leverage your business process and content in your digital workplace. You also have opportunity to integrate other systems such as Office 365, Box, Salesforce and you can also utilize Adobe Sign or DocuSign for electronic signatures.  With DocGen you can connect to ANY DATA and not just Office 3

How to get Task Comments and more in Nintex Workflow for 365. Note:  Task ID’s have been added to Assign a task as of October 2017. See  Office365 - Query Task IDs for Multiple Approvers! for details. This is the first in a series of blogs that will describe useful building blocks for many automation applications. The final blog will pull these all together in a simple but illustrative example. Introduction:In SharePoint online the “Start a task process” is the action that allows assigning a task to multiple assignees. Task IDs are not available from the SharePoint online task engine for the “Start a Task Process” action. As a result Nintex “Start a Task Process” does not provide the facility for capturing task IDs. It simply returns the outcome of the task, with no information as to how that outcome was derived (who selected one outcome and with what comments etc.).It is therefore not obvious how one can capture the task information, a need expressed by many Nintex customers.Many user

To Update manage metadata column in SharePoint list we need two thing:1. Label of manage metadata2. Term ID of the manage metadata.Scenario: I want to update "Europe" in manage metadata column in SharePoint List. I have only label with me which is present in Team store.But I cannot update manage metadata column directly using action "Update Item" as I also need the termid for same.Solution:1.We have to first select the termsetID from which the "termid" need to be taken and save in variableexample: "Country" is TermSet and need to get its ID from "Term Store management".2.Using Taxonomy webservices "<siteurl>_vti_bin/TaxonomyClientService.asmx" in Action "CallWebservices" and user Method as "GetTermsByLabel"Once we get the SOAP Editor details , modify the below Web Service as :  3. We get Result in XML then using "Query XML" get the TermID based on the TermStoreID 4. Once we get the TermID and the update list item using "UpdateListItem" with "label | TermID"example: "Europe|TermID

 Nintex Products used for customer: Nintex Form  Nintex Workflow  Power BI reports backed by Nintex Form.   BUSINESS SITUATION: Before using the Nintex Workflow Platform, Customer’s HUMAN RESOURCES uses MANUAL PROCESSES to track EMPLOYEE MANPOWER, DEMOGRAPHY, DIVERSITY and LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT for their regional Human Resources departments. As a result, they were OVERWHELMED WITH EMAILS and the overall human resource department BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY WAS IMPACTED SIGNIFICANTLY.     SOLUTION:  With the use of Office 365 and Nintex Workflow & Nintex Forms, Nintex Partner helped customer to develop and create a more efficient system to automate their Nintex form and Nintex workflow. Customers had business rules and validations such as employee productivity, number of sick leaves, employee training computations, budget etc. for HR department across all the geolocations. NINTEX FORMS and customized TASK FORMS were used for all the CALCULATIONS, VALIDATIONS and FORMULAS.   Nintex Pa

Nintex Products used for customer: Nintex Form  Nintex Workflow  Nintex Mobile / App Studio  Nintex Hawkeye  BUSINESS SITUATION Client embarked on Office 365 and engaged a service provider to design their Nintex form and Nintex workflows. Nintex form & Nintex workflow started behaving in an under-optimal manner DUE TO PERFORMANCE ISSUES. The system had BECOME UNSTABLE and started throwing cryptic errors. The primary reason was due to POOR APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE and DESIGN. SharePoint lists involved in the design contained more than 200 columns and had 8 workflows which were sequential in nature, not streamlined and simplified.  SOLUTION:NINTEX Partner proceed to PROPOSE A NEW DESIGN with streamlined workflow processes.  The new design had a main list with FEWER COLUMNS and majority fields were kept within the Nintex form which REDUCED THE NINTEX FORM LOAD.A single NINTEX WORKFLOW was used the state machine for IMPROVED MAINTENANCE of a workflow in the FUTURE. The workflow is COMP

Seems like only yesterday it was February 2017, and I was in New Orleans at InspireX meeting everyone, and giving my very first conference presentation on governance. Now here we are, November already, and I'm eagerly starting the countdown to XChange 2018.  On the fence as to whether or not you should go? Here are my top 3 reasons why it's a valuable trip: 3)  The Experts Lounge Imagine this: a huge, ballroom-esque room, full of round tables, with 10 seats each. Each table has a card, much like at a wedding, denoting who is to sit there -- however, this is denoting the type of expertise available at each table. Document Generation. Advanced Workflows. Hawkeye. Drawloop. Every topic is covered, and there is a group of people there discussing the ins and outs of each. Ever had a question and wanted a Nintex expert to answer it to your face? This is the spot. 2)  Learn About All Nintex Offerings Wonder if you're missing out on something Nintex has to offer because you aren't always up to

This is something that threw me for a loop for longer than I care to admit. When you are updating a Word doc to use with content controls that are updated from a Nintex workflow, you cannot just save the document with the "Save" icon in the toolbar depicted in the screenshot below: You must use the File - Save As method and be sure to navigate to the library where the document is stored and overwrite the existing Word doc there.  This may seem elementary to some, but I'd like to document it to save others some trouble.

A three months Tentative Production Plan helps procurement division to plan what material to acquire to support the production of compressor at the production site. There are two types of materials to be shipped to a production plant,Movement of material from one plant to the destination production plant/storage Delivery Order directly from its supplier to the plant/storage Nintex Mobile application is being used at the plant supporting Goods Receipt at the point where materials are being received. This minimized the need for personnel at the plant to receive goods by noting it on paper, and the need to go back to the office desktop to update the good receipts using a desktop computer with SAP console installed. Updates of good movement is now instantly done over at the point of good receipts using Nintex Mobile, and data are being updated immediately to the SAP system powered by Nintex Workflow with Workflow Connectors provided by Theobald Software. For the purpose, a "Goods Receipt"

In this blog post I'd like to provide a step-by-step guide to build a dynamic repeating section with Nintex Forms that can be used in order forms for example. Furthermore this guide will include a solution to check the total price of an order against a predefined budget. The focus of the whole solution will be on the Calculated Value control, the Lookup function, Runtime functions and Rules. I've created this guide by using Nintex Forms 2016 (On-Premises), but it should also work for Nintex Forms 2013 (On-Premises). In the repeating section the user will be able to choose from a specified list of products, whereby the price of the product, the overall price based on the desired amount and a picture of the product will be shown. At the end of the form the user will see the overall price of all products and furthermore will get an information whether she or he is still in the defined budget or not. At the end the form will look like this (Display mode): Creation and configuration of the

Greetings everyone   You might remember my previous post where I illustrated how you can dynamically build a list of approvers and assign tasks to them in a loop via a Nintex® Workflow. In this post I've included an example  .  Author Palesa Sikwane‌ Long Description Want to Create a list of approvers dynamically using Nintex Workflow? This is the post for you! Dependencies Nintex® Workflow for Office 365®, SharePoint Online® (Office 365®) Support Info Palesa Sikwane‌ Additional Information N/A  My previous post Assigning Tasks Dynamically Using Start a Task Process in NWF0365 can be summarised as:  1. Querying a List of Approvers 2. Assigning Tasks for Each Brand Dynamically Step 1: Querying the list of approversI have configured a list containing my Approval matrix per brand name (I went with cereal brands as an example   ): Brand Name Approver Name Deputy Name Weetbix Palesa Emmanuel Sikwane Richard Roe Kellogs Richard Roe Palesa