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Nintex was present on an event in Chile. Sharepoint Chile 2015Luis Bardin​ presented  "The Cost Of Not Investing In BPA" The Eighth Latin American Symposium on SharePoint and Other Microsoft Technologies is the largest multidisciplinary event in the region , where the most prominent experts and business executives met to talk about SharePoint , Project Server, Office 365, Microsoft Azure and Yammer , among other technologies. It was an opportunity to learn more , share and search for the best technological solutions in a pleasant atmosphere and thought of every detail for assistants. 

This is a continuation post in the Dictionary series.  The previous post was on creating, reading and manipulating a Dictionary variable manually - Dictionary Part 1 - Manually Creating a Dictionary   This post will be about querying data from some XML, storing the results into a Dictionary variable and how to iterate through each result. There are a number of reason why you would have XML.  The main one is the result from a Web Service call.  There's also the chance that you are getting XML data from another LOB system or an XML files in a SharePoint Document Library.  All good reasons for XML data and also for a Workflow to be able to get at that data and pull out what it needs. Querying XML Data We start off with the following XML : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><MetaDataCollection  xmlns:xsd="

The feature to edit the task forms from the workflow designer in Office 365 came with the July updates for Nintex Forms.​​For me one of the best features that came with this is the ability to include fields from the related item in the task form. However you may  receive an error when you try to publish the workflow.Error similar like the one below:Error publishing workflow. Workflow XAML failed validation due to the following errors: Activity 'DynamicActivity' has 54 arguments, which exceeds the maximum number of arguments per activity (50). HTTP headers received from the server - ActivityId: 2d403179-534a-44ab-8ecc-cd1bd18271ed. NodeId: . Scope: . Client ActivityId : 18ef3f9d-a0e8-2000-213e-a3414321b7c2. The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request. This error is explained in flowing post

Hi,Just like to share my experience with Nintex Forms rules and comparison of the 'Current User' common context data against person columns. What I was trying to do was to hide an 'acknowledgement' button (just a standard button which is connected to a field to record a value on the form submit.The form I have a leave request form and there is a person column called 'Requested For'.After the form is lodged it sent to their manager for acknowledgement. (This is not a workflow task just a list form item)The Acknowledgement button needs to be hidden from the user who it is requested for. I tried to create a rule of current user==Requested For (from item properties)However this did not work.What happens is that the current user return the claims windows username identity.Whereas the Item Properties person column returns the Display name of the user. I next tried a hidden calculated value control t

Nintex Forms Enterprise Edition This tutorial walks through steps to retrieve country and city data from a SQL Server database and filter the returned city data based on the selected country.Figure: Example of a form listing cities for the selected country; if another country is selected, the list of cities is updated. Prerequisites:Database table "Cities" containing two columns: Country and City Example: Secure Store target application ID for credentials to the SQL Server database For more information on Secure Store, see the Microsoft article Configure the Secure Store Service in SharePoi

Nintex Forms Enterprise Edition  This tutorial walks through steps to display current wind direction for the city selected on the form. The tutorial uses the Web Request form control from Nintex Forms Enterprise Edition to send a GET request to the Yahoo weather API (anonymous authentication), filtering based on the city selected on the form (ChoiceField). Figure: Example of a form displaying wind direction for London; if another city is selected, the wind direction is updated for that city.  Prerequisites:List column WindDirectionID for binding the XPath value field List column WindDirectionText for binding the XPath display field Choice control “ChoiceField” with valid values for cities referenced by the API (example follows) Casablanca London Melbourne Paris

Products: Nintex Workflow 2013 version 3.1.5.10 or later Nintex Workflow 2010 version 2.4.5.10 or later SymptomThe following message appears when installation is complete for Nintex Workflow. Found Server(s) with ‘Web Front End’ Server Role:[server-name]Manual deployment of [version-name] solution on each listed WFE server is required. where: [server-name] is a server detected to have the Web Front End server role[version-name] is the version-specific solution: either NintexWorkflow2013WfeCore.wsp or NintexWorkflow2010WfeCore.wsp CauseThe install

Sawat Dii Khrap (male: Hello / Goodbye in Thai, Female: Sawat Dii Ka) One of the forgotten and misunderstood SharePoint controls that often gets a bad wrap in the community is the Hyperlink control.I understand the control, but what is it used for?, How do you use it in workflow?, How can you programmatically set the value/s?, and the list goes on. I've been  pondering on this very thing for the last couple of weeks since taking on this very blog post, and in the last 8 years of working with Sharepoint, I can probably count on 2 hands the amount of times I've needed to use the Hyperlink control..  But !!! This is not to say we don't love it here at Nintex and thus we invite you to feast your eyes on the newest supported control.. The Hyperlink

Building Nintex Mobile Apps Building Nintex Mobile Apps Thursday, October 22, 2015 | 1:30-2:00 pm ET In this session we will demonstrate the value of building mobile apps utilizing Nintex Forms and Workflow. Over the 30 minute span of this webinar, we will build a live, interactive mobile app. Webinar participants will have an opportunity to access the app live and provide input. As a bonus, 2 participants that provide input will be selected at random to win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!​  Presenter: Terry Simpson, Solution Architect

Show a form directly in the body in outlook mail. One of out customers have a WF with a form – when theperson have filled out the form and submit in the process to the next person. Hereceived in outlook.Then wanted that the form are showen directly in themail and not as a link.How can they do that?

How to break a workflow - Breaking Bad with Nintex Workflows  Sometimes a customer asks for help telling that the workflow "suddenly" is not working, and on a couple of cases I realized that some user made a change on the list/library or another stuff that affected the workflow. Some basics to review are the following: A column was deleted A column was changed The list was deleted Group Name changed Case 1A column was deleted When a column is deleted from the SharePoint list/library, it happens different things depending on where you were using that field.  In some cases the workflow ends with an error, on other cases you just view missing informationLet's see 2 samples:The deleted column was used on a "Send Notification" action The delete

Its continuing mission: to explore strange new scenarios, to seek out new forms and new tasks, to boldly go where no app has gone before. Captain's log: Well it is here, a great new piece of functionality to join the Nintex Mobile Enterprise capability. Pushing on from Brad Orluk​'s post a few months back around branding Nintex Mobile Enterprise Building custom-branded apps is easy with NME this new functionality takes it again to the next level.  Looking at the screen of the Nintex Mobile Enterprise builder. The Form and Task filters are 2 new categories that have been added. What thi

Now that you have read through my previous post, Intro to Nintex Mobile Enterprise (NME), it's time to quickly and easily build our first app.  In this post I cover (step by step) the process of accessing the Nintex Mobile Enterprise (NME) website and building your first custom app.  For first time users this information will be helpful, but I think that our development and UX teams have done such a great job on making the NME site intuitive and easy to use, you can probably do it blind folded! Setup In this exercise I am building an app for my fictional company called Brad Co. I have also created a fictitious logo (special thanks to LogoTypeMaker.com!), as seen below, for use inside of the app.  Additionally, I h

You can create Workflow Support Packages so as to get information about some trouble you have had on a workflow instance to analyze it or to be sent to Ask Support when you create a ticket with some issue. You can find that option on Sharepoint Central Administration on the "Nintex Workflow Management" section. There, you 'll find the option "Nintex Workflow support Console".You can use this page to monitor workflow errors on this server farm and create support packages for troubleshooting.On that page you will see a list of workflow instances with error with a link that says "Create Workflow Support Package" So you can click there and then you will see that a .zip file is created and ready to be downloaded containing the following files:

Suppose there is a single valued list look up component that provide the information of a user role depending on user login name. Now if we want to display this role from that list look during document.load function we will found it empty. Since the value of list look up component gets populated after sometime of document.load function, it shows blank. The situation to overcome this is to set a timer function in document.load so that the list look up get a chance to get populated. After getting that role we can easily disable/enable the fields of the form using JQuery. So we can have multiple view of a same item for different role based user. This could be a substitute of a single value look up in Office 365 that is yet to implement.

The new entry page to Nintex Workflow O365 brings with it a number of new features to help you get access to your workflows easily. Modify workflows immediatelyYou can now easily access all workflows relating to the site or list you navigated from. The workflows that relate to the list or site you entered the Nintex Workflow for Office 365 app are immediately displayed.Delete a workflow you no longer requireYou can delete any workflow from the table of workflows that exist within your list or site. Just be careful when you delete!Create new workflowYou can create a new site or list workflow for the corresponding site or list you navigated from. 

I recently had a request to get the AD user accounts expiring in 30 days from today's date, using Nintex Workflow. The Background:An AD timestamp (AKA LDAP time, WinTime or FileTime) is the number of 100-nanoseconds since the year 01/01/1601 @ 00:00. There's a number of online tools that help us calculating this. For example, To get the number of 100-nanoseconds between the years 01/01/1601 @ 00:00 and 01/01/2016 @ 00:00,                      we can use silisoftware online free tool                    So, 130960980000000000 is the number of 100-nanoseconds between 01/01/1601 @ 00:00

I used Nintex Workflow for several years and always guessed how I could see my favorite actions on the section named "Commonly used"  I always saw those friendly actions; "Assign Flexi task" and "Send notification", although I built tons of workflows with different actions. I kept asking: What 'd be the mysterious algorithm that Nintex uses to determine my action as "Commonly used".Is it a magic number?. Yes, it isAfter asking it on the Nintex Community, Emily told us that the magic number is 7.And I said to myself, "I used my favorite action more than 7 times". For example I remember I have a lot of "Change State" actions on my workflows.The trick is that you must drag & drop 7 times your action on your workflow design to see it on the "Commonly used" Category.It will not be considered as favorite, for example if you Copy/Paste it 7 times. Let's assume that your favorite action is "Calculate Date".

An exciting new feature is now available in Nintex Workflow for Office 365.  A Collection Variable!!! Now although Nintex Workflow for Office 365 has a Dictionary variable and it is extremely powerful, a Collection variable makes things easier.  Remember - "Workflow for Everyone"!!. If you want to learn about the dictionary, take a look at these 3 posts:Dictionary Part 1 - Manually Creating a DictionaryDictionary Part 2 - Query XML results into a DictionaryDictionary Part 3 - Call Web Service result into a Dictionary That is what you see when you go to create a new variable.  Existing o

Hi all, The July release brings some interesting features. One of those is the ability to create attachment rules on Nintex Forms for Office 365. Once you open your newly created form on O365, you see only the title and attachment displayed, right?When you select your attachment control, you'll open the attachment control configuration screen, and notice it has changed slightly. In addition to the previous 3 panels, you have now, the "validation" section. yeaaaaah! Basically the validation section allows you to create the following rules : Minimum amount of attachments (with customization of the error message) Maximum amount of attachments (from Custom to Unlimited) Note that for those amount you still

Frequently our customers and partners ask if it would be possible to get their hands on a version of the Nintex Mobile App that didn't have the Nintex branding (logos, color schemes, etc.) or that they would like to customize even further. Unfortunately, I have always had to say, no you can't. Well, the day has arrived where I can say, YES!  Welcome to Nintex Mobile Enterprise (NME)!   Customized NME app icon on an iPad An NME form with custom branding on a Windows Phone

Ever wanted to find out more about Nintex partners or have some great ideas about a potential project, but don't quite know how to get going?  In fact, many organizations need help locating Nintex partners, and the Nintex.com site has a nice little feature available for FREE.  It's called, "Find a Partner".Why you should care about this feature?1. If you're new to Nintex.  Well outside of any obvious reason, if you're new to Nintex, then

I recently worked on a Nintex Form and Workflow project for a large company who was made up of several smaller subsidiaries. Each subsidiary had multiple offices that were scattered across North America – for a total of 56 offices. This caused problems when trying to publish the workflow. Update (07-28-15)I got official word from Nintex support about the issue. Here is what they said."A SharePoint limitation has been hit. Workflow XAML failed validation due to the following errors: Exceeded maximum XAML element depth; maximum is 125.https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787(v=office.15).aspx Under [Workflow limits] / Maximum depth of a workflow sub-step in xaml (workflow complexity).  If you were to try the same workflow in SPD the same e

Nintex Workflow for Office 365 now offers the Filter action. The Filter Action will be a powerful addition to your workflows, allowing you to terminate a workflow if a condition is not met. For example, a car dealership wishes to tweet when a used car is delivered to their lot so their twitter followers may track any in-demand cars. A user on their mobile phone can enter the following information, where they can choose if the 'Car Type' is New or Used using Nintex Mobile. Since the user is out in the field, we want the workflow to start on new item creation, but we only want the workflow to run if the Car Type is 'Used Car'. Filter Action to the rescue!!  Let's look at how to configure the new Filter Action to terminate the workflow if the Car Type is not 'Used Car'.

There are actions inside Nintex Workflow that expect a specific data type.  If you're dealing with performing mathematical or datetime calculations or comparisons, the variables or values must be in the format that are required in those actions. That is the whole purpose of the Convert Value action.  It allows you to convert values stored in Text variables into other types of variables. Imagine querying a database or a SharePoint list and getting the data back.  In some cases, data is stored as text and you want to be able to perform calculations or comparisons.  It is important that you have an action such as the Convert Value action to be able to handle this type of conversion. Even though I've mentioned numbers and datetimes above, there are other variable types the Convert Value action supports.  Specifically, converting Boole