The reason I'm writing this is to start addressing a challenge that Cassy Freeman posted in response to my video stating I'll try and help any Nintex customer do more with the platform.
View those videos here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eharris04/detail/recent-activity/shares/
While this is a challenge for sure, I think I can tackle it in pieces to help everyone out and make some progress. The first thing I did was take a look at what I thought were the most common actions being used in on-premises. This is 100% my opinion so take it for what its worth, but here is the list of actions I chose starting out and some notes about them.
| On-Premise Action Name | Office 365 Action Name | Comments about the actions |
|---|---|---|
| Assign Flexi tasks | Task Action and Start a Task Process | Use one of these actions to achieve a similar result which is assigning a task to a user to complete |
| Calculate date | Add Time to Date | The basic premise of the action is the same. You can add minutes, seconds, days, months and years to the date |
| Math operation | Do Calculation | The basic premise of the action is the same. You can add, multiple, subtract or divide, or mod |
| Pause for... | Pause For Duration | This allows you to pause the workflow for a set number of days, hours, or minutes and it can abide by business hours only. You will notices that you cannot do months and years in Office 365. |
| Pause until... | Pause Until | The basic premise of the action is the same. |
| Set a condition | Conditional Branch | The basic premise of the action is the same. |
| Loop | Loop with Condition | The basic premise of the action is the same |
| End workflow | Terminate Current Workflow | The basic premise of the action is the same |
| Set field value | Update List Item | While in on-premises you update a particular field via an action, it is preferred to use the update list item and select the field or fields to update via one action in O365. |
Let me know what actions you want more info on as I start building my second list.
