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Hello everyone!I am writing today about a use case that has come up a few times recently and how Nintex can help solve it.At a high level, the use case involves a pricing estimation calculator and the front end, resulting in a proposal or estimate document created and sent to a customer. The specific scenarios I've been working with have involved field service workers; however, this is not limited to that audience.Without Nintex, this would involve a lot of pen and paper, quick napkin math, and complex Excel sheets. Alternatively, the companies I've been working with involve their estimation experts, and their turnaround time is much longer than their customers are willing to wait. With Nintex Automation Cloud, any field service worker can fill out some simple fields and get a quick estimate from the customer while they are still on site.As I mentioned, the ideas presented here can also be applied in other types of use cases. Nintex Automation Cloud allow

On March 30, 2024, Microsoft deprecated the MS Online services we use for certain actions. This unfortunately means the following actions are no longer supported and will be removed entirely at a later date, estimated to be six months from now, when the relevant endpoints are retired. You can find more information in the provided link.Office 365 Retrieve License Plan Office 365 Create User Office 365 Reset Password Office 365 Add User to Security Group Office 365 Remove User from Security GroupTo ensure your workflows using these actions continue functioning as intended, we recommend migrating them to Nintex Automation Cloud if possible. Please let us know if there are any questions.

In this month’s user spotlight blog, we’re talking to Jason Roberts (JRoberts), a Solutions Engineer at Nintex.Jason RobertsWhat is your current role, how long have you worked at Nintex, and your career background?I guess I’ve been in the tech industry for over twenty-five years if you count interning back during my college years. I’ve worn a few hats from that time like support, admin, and developer. I’ve worked in the financial, manufacturing, and software industries. I am a Solutions Engineer on our pre-sales team for the AMER region. I have been with Nintex for over ten year

One of the most requested capabilities for Nintex Workflow Cloud has been the ability to assign a single task to multiple individuals, so a task can be completed by one of many or by collaborative decision-making. We will be making a number of updates to Task capabilities in Nintex Workflow Cloud over the coming months, starting with a new action in the workflow designer: Assign a task to multiple users.To see it in action, check out Chris Ellis' (Director of PreSales) awesome video. The action:With Assign a task to multiple users, you will be able to assign a task to multiple assignees and set the Completion rules.You still be able to look up assignees from your User Directory or

A Common use case for an automated process containing a document being generated is needing a proofreading step where a user can verify the dynamic data going into the document before delivery. Pause to Edit and Forms are just two great examples & features to accomplish this. Let's talk about using forms first. I typically always bring up this path first on any discussion I have. The Reason? Most of the time this ‘proofreading’ step doesn’t need to give the user access to the entire document. Typically they are just checking the dynamic text coming in or maybe just changing a single paragraph. In this case a form is much faster for the end user.  A user can simply check the data here and make any adjustments instead of downloading the entire document. The other plus here is that you can map the data back to a

In many industries, paper-based processes can hinder operational efficiencies and increase risk of lost or inaccurate data. Equipment inspections in the Oil & Gas industry are no exception. One company used hyperautomation—the use of multiple automation tools across a business process to achieve end-to-end efficiencies—to digitize their equipment inspection process, and do so with systems located both inside and outside the firewall.  The Challenge Many companies have data warehouses where digital assets such as documents, reports, and imagery are stored.  For security measures, some companies deploy such data warehouses behind strict firewalls with no connection to any other application beyond their firewall.  This creates a challenge for companies that are trying to automate manual processes involving people and systems both inside and outside the firewall, yet are obligated to comply with strict security policies.   An Oil & Gas indus

In this month’s user spotlight blog, we’re talking to Tim Byrne (tbyrne777) , owner of the software consulting business Simplogical Consulting. Tim ByrneWhat is your current role and career background?I currently own a small software consulting business I started after 15+ years as a software consultant in the Chicagoland area. Which Nintex Product are you most passionate about and why?I am most passionate about the Nintex Automation product (formerly K2 Five, formerly K2 blackpearl). I’ve been working with this platform since it was in beta, and I don’t think there are many other developers with as much experience in it as myself. What do you enjoy most about answering Community questions?

Workflow Export Key:Q54w8FBLY7qpShZLdbiHok9thBhoq7VYMLyACf4mYJtLcAest Hello, In this blog I am going to show you how you can add buttons to express approval emails to speed up the time it takes to respond, currently when you receive an express approval email you are asked to hit reply and type out your response, this can sometimes lead to mistakes in spelling, although already quite fast in relative terms, we can always improve and make them look like this:  I will be adding an export of this solution to the gallery if you prefer to skip some steps below but I recommend you keep reading to understand how it is configured. Before we begin there

Nintex is thrilled to announce the beta availability of Nintex Automation Cloud in French, German, Spanish, as well as English. This localization applies to Nintex Automation Cloud participant, designer, and administrator interfaces.This beta release announcement comes shortly after the general availability of real-time language translation capability for Nintex Forms, which delivers a fully localized automation experience, enabling broader automation reach to employees, customers, and partners in non-English markets.How language is setWhen a user logs into Nintex Automation Cloud, the displayed language can be set manually by clicking on the user’s name on the top right of the screen (see screenshot below) or automatically determined from the browser language setting (langua

In the dynamic landscape of the insurance industry, automation separates the leaders from the rest of the pack. This blog delves into a real-life use case where automation digitally transforms the insurance policy management process, leading to increased efficiencies and elevated customer satisfaction. The Challenge:  Traditional insurance policy processes often involve manual tasks, lengthy paperwork, and a high probability of errors. These challenges impede operational efficiency and hinder the overall customer experience. The Solution: Policy AutomationEnter policy automation, which can help insurance companies streamline operations and enhance customer service. This blog tells the story of an insurance broker who successfully embraced automation to ensure accurate, efficient, and compliant data entry into third party carrier websites when customers request updates to their policies. How One Insurance Br

A common question with K2’s integration with SharePoint is how can we reduce the scope of permissions? By default, the permissions required in SharePoint allow K2 workflows and forms to do all the things: create sites, update permissions, create lists/libraries/items, and help you automate your SharePoint administration.While we believe that every site could benefit from K2’s integration, we know that some organizations want to control access to K2 and limit scope. Newly added to the documentation by our amazing Technical Content team, this article helps you do just that. https://help.nintex.com/en-US/nintexautomation/icg/5.7/Content/Configure/SelectedScopeSetup.htm. By creating your own application, you can reduce the site scopes to only those site collections you want to use with K2. Give it a whirl if yo

IntroductionIn this blog I am going to show you how to take data submitted from a form in Nintex Workflow Cloud and save it into a table in Excel. Inserting Form Data into an Excel TableWith a recent update in Nintex Workflow Cloud, we now have an out of the box action for Microsoft Excel to Insert Table Data.   Creating the Excel Table to store the data inThe first thing we will need it to create an excel workbook with the table where we want to store the data, we collect in the Nintex form. In this case I just created a simple table called NWCTest and 7 columns for the data we are going to be collecting from the form.  You will want to make sure you have your excel sheet and table created before you begin setup in Nintex Workflow Cloud.  T

Earlier this month, Google started tracking a new issue in which source URLs for files in Google Drive aren’t working when they’re embedded, such as in Nintex Forms, emails, and web pages. This issue can impact any Nintex product expected to host an image, and seems to affect many (possibly all) file types. This issue has been acknowledged by Google on their Issue Tracker This conversation in GitHub demonstrates a workaround with a new URL format. However, this workaround ultimately requires the URL to be updated anywhere it’s been used. I’ve written a Knowledge Base article about it here re

You may start to see a notice when accessing your K2 for SharePoint integration in a SharePoint Online list or library. This notice states that SharePoint add-ins will be retired for SharePoint in Microsoft 365 in April 2026. Rest assured, our developers are hard at work and have already made strides in keeping your SharePoint Online integration working with your Nintex Automation (fka K2 Five) and K2 Cloud environments.With the 5.7 release earlier this year, new installs that integrate with SharePoint Online will use the new SharePoint Framework (SPFx) integration path. This includes a new way to manage your SharePoint Online integration in the Management site, and has updated the integration points per Microsoft’s guidance. What about all our existing SharePoint integrations that use the add-in?The team is currently working on a migration tool, to help you move your existing add-in based integrations for forms and workflows to the new SPFx mod

Several questions have come in recently from customers asking about plans to remove the dependency on Microsoft’s .NET Framework 3.5 version, which will reach end of life in 2029.We are aware of the upcoming deprecation, and keep a close eye on all of our technology dependencies to ensure we stay on current, supported versions to help our customers remain secure and stable.  We are working to address this dependency, and it’s not a simple upgrade for the K2 server and sites. Where we can, in some of the supporting micro services, we’ve already updated our code to depend on .Net Core versions. I don’t have a firm release date for completely removing our dependency on .NET Framework 3.5, but when past APIs have reached EOL (for example, the Microsoft AAD API to the new Microsoft Graph API), we addressed it in all support

In this month’s user spotlight blog, we’re talking to Sam Scheer (Nintex_Sam), Customer Enablement Manager at Nintex.Sam ScheerWhat is your current role, how long have you worked at Nintex, and what is your career background?Hello! I’m Sam, the Manager of Customer Enablement and responsible for Nintex Community, the Nintex How-to Center, and Nintex University. I’ve been with Nintex for two and a half years and love every minute. As a life-long technical communicator, I've worked in many industries, from aviation, utilities, consumer electronics, unmanned aircraft, satellites, and software. I’m also a United States Navy veteran, where I worked on the radar systems for the F/A-18 fighter. My top priority is enabling our custom

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that SharePoint 2013 workflows will be deprecated in Microsoft Office 365 as of April 2026. As we communicated then, this deprecation affects our Nintex Workflow for Office 365 product, which utilizes the SharePoint 2013 workflow engine.We are now announcing End of Life for our Nintex Workflow for Office 365 product. Per our standard support policies found at www.nintex.com/legal, we will make support available to active customers for two years, with our anticipated End of Support date in December 2025.Our Nintex Workflow for O365 customers can upgrade to Nintex Automation Cloud to continue utilizing their Nintex-based workflows. To help our customers wit

In this month’s user spotlight blog, we’re talking to Simon Muntz (SimonMuntz), a Senior Instructional Designer at Nintex.Simon MuntzWhat is your current role, and how long have you been with Nintex?I have been with Nintex for nine years and seven months.  My current position is a Senior Instructional Designer on the Customer Enablement team, which I have been doing for around a year and four months.  Before that, I was a Senior Engineer in Nintex Support. I have been in IT for about 16 years but have always been interested in computers. Which Nintex Product are you most passionate about and why? I have always liked Nintex’s workflow products, so I like the newest offering of Nintex Automation Cloud the m

In this month’s user spotlight blog, we’re talking to Brandi Woodson, an IT Systems SharePoint Administrator at Kellogg Brown and Root.What is your current role, and your career background?I’m an IT Systems SharePoint Administrator who specializes in Business Process Automation. My career background is actually in pricing and contracts – but my IT career has just begun! I have always found myself learning more and more about how applications communicate with one another throughout my journey. I have had great mentors and trainers along my journey who were always willing to share and teach me functions that were not necessarily in my job description. Through the years I found myself always pushing my leadership t

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you needed to reset a Nintex Forms Repeating Section? I'm sure you've tried to reset different columns from within your Nintex Workflows and It's actually easy to reset any type of fields like Yes/No, Single Line of Text, etc.. But what about the Repeating Sections? First of all, why would you need to do so?In my case, I had two lists; one for the orders and the other is for the order details. I've created a 1:Many relationship between both lists.  In my case, I wanted to use a Repeating Section only as a way for inputting data into another list (a Nintex Workflow on the parent list is being used here to parse the repeating section and create the child items in the second list.).

When you read release notes of any product or app update, you’ll usually see the generic category of “performance enhancements” - More speed. Like Ricky Bobby, “I wanna go fast,” right? But that phrase has gotten a bad reputation as just buzzwords. For a while now, you’ve heard from me about some tech debt projects that are updating some pretty core frameworks that are used in the Nintex K2 designers. And with those projects, I always promise that we’ll have increased stability and performance. But words are words, right? Seeing is believing. On the left, the updated framework. On the right, what you have today in Nintex K2 Five/Nintex Automation and Nintex K2 Cloud. On your mark, get set, go!Coming to a release next year. Get ready to go faster.

This is a short workaround i've put together on how you can use a component workflow within Office 365 to capture workflow information and append it to a history list on the item that your workflow is running on. Check out the video below on how it works:   How to use this: 1. Download the component workflow i've built2. Create a column called "Workflow History" on the document or list you'd like to log3. Import the workflow as a site workflow4. Update it to connect to your list and update the "Workflow History" column you created.5. Update your list/library workflow to call this component workflow.  Enjoy!!

Nintex is thrilled to announce the AI Form Translator, part of the Nintex Forms capabilities of Nintex Automation Cloud. This new capability helps forms designers leverage Generative AI to automatically translate forms into multiple languages on the fly.This capability follows on the heels of the recently released AI Form Generator feature, adding real-time translation capability to this automatic form generator.Once forms designers enter plain language text to specify the form they want, the AI Form Generator goes to work to create the form

Sometimes we remember about inline functions and runtime and use them on different parts of the design of our Nintex Forms, but we don't get the expected result by us, and sometimes it's simply because we haven't considered when they are executed. The difference is that Inline functions are run when the form is loaded., although the Runtime Functions will run while you have the form open, changing a control 's value, so filling a text field will cause the Runtime function to evaluate again. This is a simple reminder for me and you.

In this month’s user spotlight blog, we’re talking to Eric Rhodes (bamaeric), a Senior Developer for Fulton County Schools in Atlanta, Georgia.Eric RhodesWhat is your current role, and your career background?I am currently a Senior Developer for Fulton County Schools in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s hard to believe, but I have been in the Information Technology field for 30 years as of October 2023. My first job out of college was COBOL programming. During the course of my career, I have been a support technician, network administrator, webmaster, developer, consultant, and trainer. I have been building applications using the Nintex Process Platform since 2009, when I started using Nintex Workflow 2007. I have been fortunate in my care