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November saw a collection of new templates from Nintex Workflow Cloud workflows, Promapp process maps, and Nintex Workflow Cloud custom connectors. If you have not yet had a chance to check out the Discover Nintex Workflow Cloud playlist on the Nintex YouTube channel be sure to review it to see how you can build workflow solutions from scratch with Nintex! Alright, now let's take a look at what was built in November. WorkflowsNintex Workflow Cloud Urlaubsantrag - (German Template): Ein Prozess zum Erstellen einer Urlaubsanfrage.

Planning ahead When designing a fairly complex workflow/business process it is common for a workflow to become overly complex (in programming this is often referred to as a god object). This can lead to issues down the road such as: Troubleshooting/Debugging difficulties. Difficulty maintaining code/loss of flexibility. Performance degradation on publishing (or even timing out altogether). Performance degradation on initialization (this can affect the entire farm). Inability to export or edit the workflow after publishing. Workflow template corruption (limited to the workflow itself). Workflows should be broken up into more manageable bits whenever possible (in computer science this is called

We know that it can be frustrating designing large forms in Nintex Workflow Cloud due to how long it can take to save. We have some fantastic news - by returning the form as an object, the amount of time it now takes to save has been significantly reduced by up to 8 times! Not only that, but these improvements will also reduce loading times.  Details of performance improvements:6-8 times performance improvement when saving task forms  3 times performance improvement when saving start forms  30% improvement on load times of start and task forms  These updates will be performed on that form the next time you save it. For existing forms, the first save will take a little longer while they are updated, after which existing form variables will be replaced and migrated to reference to the new form object. Performance improvements will be apparent on subsequent form loads and saves. 

Nintex Migration Coaching We are excited to announce a new program designed to ensure your Nintex migration has a successful outcome.Visit our Migration Center to review documentation and interact with the community.  We have coaches with years of experience ready to assist you for both cloud migrations and migrations to a new version of Sharepoint to help you develop a plan best suited to meet your goals and timelines and ensure a successful outcome.  Do not hesitate to Book a session with a coach from our support team to help you build your migration plan. Who is this for? Our Migration Coaching sessions are aimed at Proj

So whenever you send out this contract please make sure to update the status of the Salesforce Opportunity. Also make sure the correct Sharepoint list has the same status. Also after everything is said and done and the contract is signed make sure to save the final version in a folder in Box… Not hard to handle this when you have done it hundreds of times. When you are new to an organization this can be a bit to learn. What happens when your sales team goes from 5 to 30 overnight? How do you minimize mistakes and ramp up user adoption?  The majority of the time when task and updates need to be done and updated in this manner logic typically exists to dictate next steps. If this… then… do that… As mentioned above this can be a bit of a learning curve for one use case. But most of us have more then one

Some really great templates were added in October with a focus on Nintex Workflow Cloud to help highlight some of the new features and functionality that has been delivered to that product. If you have not yet had a chance to check out the Discover Nintex Workflow Cloud playlist on the Nintex YouTube channel be sure to review it to see how you can build workflow solutions from scratch with Nintex! Alright, now let's take a look at what was built in October. WorkflowsNintex Workflow Cloud Food Premises Assessment Report:

Given the current global climate, Microsoft said in March that Teams usage had grown to 44 million daily active users. It’s now jumped another 70 percent - during one of their latest investor calls, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed that Teams usage has increased to more than 75 million daily active users. Its evident Teams has become the enterprise collaboration hub for teamwork, with organisations seeing the benefits of Teams, some of which includes: Chat-based communication instead of email Channels instead of folders Workspaces allowing you to securely edit files at the same time. The liking of content, @mentions and replies.  But with all good things, comes a great level of risk – with Teams, it’s the management and governance controls which bec

Nintex Forms allows for Cascading Drop Downs which can improve the functionality of your forms, but what if you wanted to include a third-tier to the cascading drop down? Let's take a look at how to configure a three-tier cascading drop down using Nintex Forms! The Setup For this example, we are creating, in total, four lists (List A, List B, List C, and Meal Order). Below is what List A -  C look like: List Configuration

Welcome to the first blog of my new series!Nintex vTE Giving back to the Community:  Getting Started with Nintex Forms As a Nintex vTE I’m approached daily by colleagues and customers making requests of me to come up with creative and efficient solutions for some super complex business problems.  This blog isn’t about any of that though.  Rather, its purpose is to help those of you who may be new and perhaps struggling to get started.  It’s my intention to save you time by avoiding some common pitfalls, while teaching you some of the basics.  Moreover, it’s about giving back to the Community.  Join me now as we explore Nintex Forms. Assumptions:  Nintex forms is already installed; User possesses general SharePoint knowledge. Intended Audience:  Someone new to Nintex Forms.  Although the examples in this tutorial we

Hi! One of the nice features of Nintex forms is an ability to create a repeating section within a single form. This allows you to add multiple lines of something, IE sales and then tally the rows up.  One of the problems is easily reporting on this row data. If you export to Excel you just get the ‘Rows’ within the form in a single field as XML. I wanted to create an excel report that split out these xml fields into individual rows and be refreshable. Power Query to the rescue with a bit of help from my power query guru. The following is a guide on splitting that data into individual rows using excel and power query and connecting directly to the Sharepoint list to create a refreshable report. WHAT YOU NEEDFirst off you need your sharepoint list and make sure your repeating

I was recently asked how to calculate business days within a Nintex Form.  Here is a video on how I achieved a result, but this is just a quick example and still requires thorough testing to see if it meets your business requirements.  Here is the function:  ifElse ( /* IF MORE THAN 1 WEEK DIFFERENCE */ dateDiff("TotalWeeks",[Form].[Start date],[Form].[End date]) != 0, /* SUBTRACT 2 DAYS PER WEEK FOR WEEKENDS */ (dateDiff("TotalDays",[Form].[Start date],[Form].[End date]) + 1) - (2 * dateDiff("TotalWeeks",[Form].[Start date],[Form].[End date])), ifElse ( /* SUBTRACT 2 DAYS */ (dateDiff("TotalDays",[Form].[Start date],[Form].[End date]) + 1 >= 7) || (dateDiff("TotalDays",[Form].[Start date],[Form].[End date]) + 1 >= 6 && formatDate([Form].[Start date],"dddd") == "Tuesday") || (dateDiff("TotalDays",[Form].[Start date],[Form].[End date])

Excerpt from: Words and categories matter in process management My guess is that you have heard the axiom: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” If there were a process management equivalent, it would go something like this: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words used without proper definitions will derail my process management implementation.” Ok, so maybe this version does not exactly roll off the tongue, but I promise you there is a point. Imagine you are working to embed process management as a discipline into your business. What are you, primarily at least, seeking to manage by doing this? Is it fair

PD 20.9.0 pushes the limit of data processing, significantly reducing the time it takes to find a process. We have wrapped it with an exciting new user interface, so that business analysts can now explore, analyze, and map processes for automation, with no effort. WHAT IS INCLUDED? A NEW WAY TO DISCOVER PROCESSESThe ‘Discovery’ experience is quicker and easier.The new discovery page runs the discovery algorithm in real-time and lets you quickly review the findings.Spotted a meaningful process? Save it to the Process Library for further analysis. VIDEO PREVIEWSWe’ve added a video preview for every discovered process so you can watch a short simulation of how the process is done in real life by a user. BETTER STATISTICSAiding statistical information is now available for every discovered process: process duration, application used, mouse vs. keyboard distribu

Deprecate support for Internet Explorer 11 and support the new Microsoft Edge Microsoft has recently announced that their Microsoft 365 apps and services will no longer support Internet Explorer 11 (IE11). In addition, with the release of the new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) and high user adoption of it since January, Microsoft will be ending support for the Microsoft Edge Legacy desktop app. The following are the key dates from Microsoft with regards to browser support:Beginning November 30, 2020, the Microsoft Teams web app will no longer support IE 11. After March 9, 2021, the Microsoft Edge Legacy desktop app will not receive new security updates. Beginning August 17, 2021, the remaining

Transport Layer Security (TLS) is an encryption protocol that ensures privacy and data integrity of information passed between two communicating applications. It’s the most widely deployed security protocol in use today and is used for web browsers and other applications that require data to be securely exchanged over a network. TLS ensures that a connection to a remote endpoint is the intended endpoint through encryption and endpoint identity verification.   Nintex Live services uses TLS as a key component of its security and the current version supported is TLS 1.2. To ensure the industry security standards are met, the support of legacy TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will be removed as they no longer meet the security standards.  From December 1st 2020, Nintex will update the Live Router to remove support for Legacy Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0, 1.1. If any Nintex Live services are in use, you will be required to update your SharePoint deployment to support TLS 1.2 to ensure

Want to trigger Dynamic Documents to run based on a Condition in Salesforce? Of course you do! There are many ways to accomplish this. Let’s talk about doing it with Nintex Workflow Cloud or NWC. There are countless reasons and ways this could be done. BUT… Why do it with NWC? Salesforce has workflow solutions. How excited you are about my answer also depends on what you are trying to do. I’m not saying go replace everything with NWC when everything is already working. It's more an opportunity to enhance.  Simple use-case… Something happens in Salesforce and a Document is generated. NWC has no problem handling this. Neither does Salesforce. How about this… Something happens in Salesforce and based on a percentage calculation it has to go through an approval p

A common request over the years has been the ability to translate text into multiple different languages using a Nintex Worklfow. In this example, I've created a new Xtension that will interface with the Google Cloud Translate API, providing native translation services within your workflow. If you'd like to see a video walkthrough of this Xtension in action, please check out the embedded video below:  To download this Xtension or to get more details on how your Google Cloud account needs to be configured to use this Xtension, please check out the page for this Xtension on the Nintex Process Accelerator Gallery. For this example, I'll be running through a baseline request where we're t

I wanted to put together this overview to help show case the number of new templates that have been added to the Nintex Process Accelerator Gallery (PAG) over the month of September. Because we did not have a "Month In Review" post last month I am also going to include some of the templates that were added in the last days of August to make sure that no one misses anything exciting! Some really great templates were added in September, so let's dig in! Process Maps (Promapp)Know Your Customer: Outlines the manual and automated steps for an organization to onboard and verify the identity of a new customer

Excerpt from: The elusiveness of operational excellence Doubtless you have heard the term “operational excellence” used before, perhaps even in your own organization. It seems that many businesses want to be operationally excellent – after all, who would not want that? I cannot say I have ever met an organization who wanted to be operationally average. But often those desires go unfulfilled as organizations fail to make the necessary changes to transition from average to excellent. Last week I was presenting to a group on this very topic of operational excellence. I started by attempting to define the term which is harder than it may appear. As with so many business buzzwords, nailing down a p

 Starting a Nintex Component Workflow from Microsoft Dynamics is made simple by Flow actions. You start this process by first copying the API URL from within Nintex Workflow Cloud.    Next you transition over to Micosoft Dynamics and choose to create a new Flow from the entity you wish to initiate the NWC call from.             This will route you to the Flow designer where you can add an "HTTP + Swagger" action. This is a premium dynamics action and may incur addition licensing cost.  

There are times when a user does not want to go through each and every email to approve a task. There are also times when a list item is deleted; however, the task is still out there for that item. To display the task list for users in SharePoint: Go to Lists->Workflow Tasks Click on the link Copy the URL Create a new item in the Quick Launch and paste the URL there Users can filter the list on their name or check on the status of other users To display one task link in Nintex email notifications:In your email notification, you can 'Insert Reference' and select 'Workflow Status URL' All the user will have to do is click on 'Respond to Task' Personally, I give all the users the information they need in the email to approve/reject. In addition, I attach any files. That way they can perform a lazy approval if they so choose to. Where I work, the URLs are

2020 saw the release of the Microsoft Lists app for Office 365. The app allows you to create a list from scratch, import from Excel or a template to track and organise information to share with your company or teams. Not radically different from the concepts which underpin SharePoint lists behaviour, now in a slightly decoupled app experience. So.... Does Nintex support Microsoft Lists? Let’s take a look…. First I’ll need to create a list. Access the Office 365 app launcher or waffle and select Lists. Create a Blank List or create a list from a template or existing list. Or Import from Excel.

I recently was asked how can a designer change the look of a form based on the user who is accessing the form when using Nintex New Responsive Forms for Office365. To explain how I would do this with the video below.  Cheers,Euan

IntroductionLists are a great tool to utilize while building out your botflows. They can help simplify complex logic, serve as a data source or as a quick lookup to help translate values.  While we have a lot of great documentation on the actions themselves, I thought it would be very helpful to put together a reference on how to get the most out of Lists in Nintex RPA. For the sake of length, I’ll split this up into a series. I’ve published one a little out of order in Creating Randomized Data with Nintex RPA, which really should have been published after this one. This blog will serve as an introduction, with either one or two follow ups to cover more in-depth utilization of Lists. Creating a List“Sounds like Lists are great, and they can do a lot, but how do I ac

Hello all, One of the most regular workflow designs I see with all lines of business is the use of multiple approvals are repeating the same actions but with only minor differences each time. Currently it seems the preferred method to solve such workflows will be to use State machines to build branches for each step, Although this works and is fairly straight forward to pull off, I believe it has some minor drawbacks in some situations and in some extreme cases in the cloud, may cause bad workflow performance and throttling. The kind of state machine I am talking about may look a little like the below but can be much bigger.             I regularly see state machines where at first they were ma