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LandsEndScholar
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Why is cursor on left of a decimal entry only adding digits to the left of 0.00 as example 838 becomes 8380.00 ??

Hi, I have to calculate totals for currency fields in a workflow.  The form is by default set / meaning each field that needs to be added initially is set to 0.00 as default in the list and set as currency. Yet when on the form two things are apparent.  If you ‘tab’ to the next entry for a currency to add, the whole of that next element is colored blue and written over as expected.  BUT, If I want to skip a field and add to another the cursor present to the LEFT of the 0.00 and then becomes say 8,340.00  when it should only be only 834.00.   The 0.00 isn’t going away when clicking into that area. The numbers persist / stay to the left of the 0.00 and the total then become completely wrong to add. List definition for one of the adding elements, they are all same            On the form looks fine initially as expected But then what I want in that field Materials just 834.00 yet I end up with this, what’s up with that is the question ?   Form element definition on the form itself  

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2 months ago
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brandiwoodsonCommunicator
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
URL escape codes and SPO not working?

Does anyone know how to resolve the issues with the special characters from this resource we found?URL escape codes (microfocus.com) I was using the call a sharepoint web service action to check if file was locked by a user. If so, it would use a stage to pause x amount of times - check back - then every hour for a day - then daily - before it moved forward to update metadata. I really wish there was something Nintex could come up with to check if a file was locked for shared use, but I don’t see that on the roadmap anytime soon - so that being said - now we are getting stalled workflow instances that keep checking back because the response is “item does not exist” for any folder or file that has a # or % in it.We have attempted to replace %23 for example with $23 for the final URL used in the call a sharepoint web service action and it’s not working. We have manually tried doing this too, but it doesn’t work in general - not just in NAC.So, does anybody out there now how to escape the

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2 months ago
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brandiwoodsonCommunicator
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
CSS and changing header background

How do I use CSS to change header background and font color on a group control?  Ultimately I want a dark blue background with white font and heading 5 for my headers for each group control but when using the OOB formatter, it won’t allow for something like this. :( 

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Chris_Ben
2 months ago
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brandiwoodsonCommunicator
posted in Nintex Automation Cloud
Xtension - NAC User Management Issues?

I’m having issues with the following Xtension.Nintex Gallery - NAC User ManagementBeen working fine for a very long time, now all of the sudden it won’t query groups in our tenant? I have four connections for this Xtension - US for prod, US for beta/test tenant and one for UK and AU prod tenants. They are all returning the same issue, however was working fine over the weekend!   

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2 months ago
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gwicksteadRookie
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Getting a second set of data from a data source on Nintex Forms

I have a data source configured in NAC.This data source connects to a SQL table/view with a few fields called Item_Number, Item_Description and Item_Cost as examples.I then have a data picker on my Form, from the data picker I can connect to the data source and I can choose the field I am assigning to the dropdown.I am assigning the dropdown to show the Item_Description.How can I derive the other fields to display information on the form? If a user picks Product A, I would like to display Product A’s Cost value.I can’t see the solution, I’m new to NAC.

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Chris_Ben
2 months ago
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shaoneNovice
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Call a web service - Form variables is not generated

Hi, everyone. I would like to ask regarding Nintex Automation Cloud – Call a web service. I’m having an issue which is the form variables that have been called in HTTP Post Call a web service is not generated. Below is the process of what I did.The Memo Key from above pic can be choose by the user if they clicked on Existing Form as Yes from the form.Below is the HTTP Get that I did.Below is what I did in the HTTP Post Web Service.The “se_yes_no_1_XOiK0gHkE” is for Existing Form. I set it as True because the Memo is already been created.And for “se_data_lookup_1_GZpqbs9TaH” is for Memo Key. It will be created as soon as the form is submitted in the Start Event: Form. The flow for the creation of the memo key is as below pic.After the HTTP Post Web Service been triggered, new instance will be created and it supposed to go through the same workflow, but it doesn’t generate all of the form variables. You can see pics below.But the form got every details that have been saved into database.

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MillaZ
2 months ago
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ConradWilkie20Rookie
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
NO365 Repating Data From SharePoint to NWC Document Generation

Hi, I am hoping someone will be able to assist. We currently have a form that is held in Nintex Forms for Office 365 which has Multiple (many) repeating sections in it. At current, we have a Nintex Workflow for Office 365 which handles the multiple repeating sections and then uses Document Generation to, well, generate a document. I am currently trying to upgrade our workflow to Nintex Automation cloud using the Start Event - Update SharePoint List item.  The issue I am having is trying to convert the xml of the repeating sections that are captured in SharePoint into a collection that can then be tagged in the template we have for the document generation. Previously, with Nintex Workflow for Office 365, you were able to build tables in the Document Generation action from the queried XML data (done earlier in the workflow) and then use those tables to tag in the template, but on Nintex Automation Cloud, this feature has been removed. We still want to create a table repeating data format

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2 months ago
Yhaizley RV
Yhaizley RVRookie
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Automatically Triggering a Workflow in Nintex Form Without Submitting the Form

Hello! Is it possible to run a workflow automatically when a condition is met, without having to click "Submit" in a Nintex form?For example, I have a rule where, when an employee completes two hires, a label becomes visible that says "You won a bonus and your level has increased by one." How can I trigger a workflow to run automatically at this point and create a record in SharePoint with the information?The challenge I'm facing is that I can't find an option to trigger the workflow when the condition is true without needing to submit the form first.thanks

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Yhaizley RV
2 months ago
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tadugnaNovice
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Nintex Workflow Cloud Choice Fields with Conditional Rules NOT Refreshing

I have a Nintex Workflow Cloud form with multiple choice fields. Some of these choice fields have follow up questions which will be displayed based on preceding response.  An example:Choose Preferred Social Activity Type:Online events In-person meetups Other If other, list activity type below: _______________________If a user selects (C) or ‘Other’, the follow question will display (If other, list activity type below: ______________________ ) as a required field.  However, as in some cases, a user may change their mind, check back on another option, say option  (A): Online events.The problem: When a user switches response to A, Nintex will still force the user to fill-in the “If other, list activity type below: _________________” field. This is definately, refreshing issue and does not meet my requirement. See attached snippet of the error message.

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SimonMuntz
2 months ago
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ACrickNovice
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Dropdown not showing Data

I Configured a Drop-down to show a column in my SharePoint list, however, when going to preview and Testing it shows “No-Options” even though there is text in the column. I checked the below - Re-Built connection separately. Checked data type in SharePoint Column (Matches other working columns - Text). Re-built the drop-down as a Data Lookup (The data lookup shows the text is there).The only difference between this column and others is that there is more text separated by commas than the other columns. Tried increasing the size of the Dropdown to see if it was a “Character” issue. Nothing shows up even for the short text (e.g. 4-5 Characters long).Column Type and Text Example 

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3 months ago
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ItsGavinRookie
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Using Repeating Section to update Sharepoint List

Hi all!I’m sure this question has been asked before, but I am trying to use a repeating section to update a Sharepoint List and I just don’t understand how to do it. I have a Repeating Section with 1 text field, 1 single choice field, and 1 currency field. I would like there to be a new list item for each line of the repeating section but keeping the rest of the form the same.When I try to use a way I think will work, I get the error The specified value is unknown. [Error Code: TypeCasting.UnknownCasting] in the Workflow Testing, which to me, doesn’t mean much.Hope this makes sense! Thank you!

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3 months ago
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Kammasood123Rookie
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Request to Terminate All Related Workflows Upon Rejection in Multi-Approval Workflow Process

I am facing a scenario where I need to terminate all workflows associated with an item if any of the approvers rejects the request. Currently, we have a parent workflow that initiates multiple component workflows. Each component workflow includes several approval steps, and upon the completion of each, it updates a specific SharePoint column to confirm completion.The requirement is to terminate all running workflows on the item if any approver rejects a request in any of the component workflows. Is there a mechanism to track and store all workflow instance IDs in the same SharePoint list or a different one, so I can use the 'Terminate Workflow Instance' action to halt the relevant workflows based on their instance IDs?Please advise on the best approach for this.

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MillaZ
3 months ago
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DemahRookie
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
How to pass forms dimension to SharePoint iFrame

Dear All,Hope you doing well. We are currently working on a project to display forms within a SharePoint iframe.We are encountering issues with scroll bars during the presentation of these forms inside SharePoint. We would like to pass the dimensions (length and width) of the forms from K2 to SharePoint using JavaScript.Is there any way to do this for individual forms, or is there a centralized location, such as a Master Page, where a global function could be implemented, given that we have more than 40 forms? Thanks.

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3 months ago
andy_s
andy_sNintex Employee
posted in Nintex Automation Cloud
Work with repeating section data in Nintex Automation Cloud start event forms

Hi everyone. Today we will discuss how to use repeating section data in Nintex Automation Cloud start event forms. Use case: a printing company form that allows customers to request various types of printing equipment for rental.A few points to highlight in the demo:Customers can select multiple types of printing equipment in the form Form rules dynamically display the relevant data based on the chosen printing equipment Form totals up the cost with form rules using repeating data The workflow generates a document (a rental agreement) with repeating data The rental agreement is sent off for signature from customer using Nintex eSign The signed document is stored in SharePoint OnlineI also want to give a big shoutout to Jason Roberts for their help on this project. 

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andy_s
3 months ago
dperani
dperaniScholar
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
New Yes/No form list columns were added but are not showing up in task form start event variables list

I added 12 new Yes/No columns to the forms list and also added the checkboxes to the start form but when I go to the task form I don’t see them anywhere in the Start Event Variables list so I can drag and drop on the task form.  I have tried closing and reopening the workflow, refresh F5 and nothing.  Is there a maximum number of Start Event Variables allowing on a task form?  I have 100.  

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dperani
3 months ago
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acl76Rookie
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Sudden failure to return email address from SharePoint Online Person of Group column

We have a component workflow running in NAC which returns values from a Person or Group column in SharePoint Online based on a text role name that is passed in to the component. We use the results from this column to create a string of email addresses which are passed back to the caller workflow for use with task approval and email notification actions. This effectively allows us to keep a single master list of all roles used for various task approvers on workflows throughout our organization. This component has been working fine since February and we have not changed the workflow actions nor the SharePoint list since that time. Yesterday July 10th, around midday EST, the component started returning an empty string after querying the list. The Person or Group column used to return the email address for a Person by default, now there is nothing. We have verified the query a list action is not failing, the column in question contains data, we can return values from other columns in the l

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3 months ago
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LandsEndScholar
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
When using parameter(s) on URL, SharePoint list doesn't appear to update record correctly

Hi,  There are four ‘groups’ ( sections ) on my form.  I am using the URL line to tell the form based on URL parameter(s) which form group(s) to show or hide.  Looking at the URL and the form that opens, the form is parsing correctly, and form rules pick up the parameter seen here and show only the section(s) I want opened when the form opens.   That’s the ‘=Yes’ you see here.The form properly is doing just that and one or many groups are hidden. Here is how the field is defined:   The field in the list though shows ‘No’ - should be ‘Yes’. Yet, The Forms rules are doing fine to properly open / close groups. My workflow though, in a ‘Branch by condition’ step is seeing what is coming over from the list for that checkbox-ApplicationOnly as ‘No’ and goes down the ‘No’ path. 

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3 months ago
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tadugnaNovice
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Nintex Workflow Cloud Form Conditional Rules Not refereshing

I have a simple Nintex Workflow Cloud form which displays follow up questions based on choice fields selected.Example:Choose your Company size.20-50 50-100 >100If a user selects “A”, my form should display, follow up questions associated with this selection. However, if the user let us say, decides to change his selection to B, the follow up rules which should refresh and display questions pertinent to choice B, do not refresh (follow up question do not change to reflect the new selection). Very annoying and irritating to some users. Any idea or recommendation is much appreciated.

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3 months ago
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NintexNovice
posted in Nintex Automation Cloud
Lag with triggering Nintex Workflow Cloud (NWC) workflows

We have a list in SharePoint Online, which uses Nintex Forms 365. A workflow has been created in Nintex Workflow Cloud (NWC) which is triggered upon creation of new list items. While there is usually minimal lag to trigger the workflow, in some instances it takes 7-10 minutes (or more), just to trigger the workflow, let alone process the workflow logic. To be clear, we are comparing the 'Created' SharePoint timestamp with the 'Instance Start Time' in NWC. Customers are not particularly impressed, especially considering that we didn't see such lag with Nintex365 workflows.Could you please advise the possible reasons for the delay, and how we can mitigate this from occurring. Thanks.

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3 months ago
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GoIllini
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
How to get all task approver comments posted in the list item

I have not seen a post on this topic in the Nintex Automation Cloud forum yet. How do I get all task approver comments written back to the list item? Is there a tutorial somewhere I can follow? I have successfully done this in NAC in other workflows where there is only one approver using the “First Response” object, but I have multiple people approving tasks in a new workflow. How can I get all of the info written back to the list item? I’m assuming I’ll have to do something with a collection variable to utilize the “Task responses” collection, as shown below, but I’m unsure of how to execute this logic to achieve what I’m looking for.  Could someone please outline the logic steps if this is possible?  I’d like to use this format: (Outcome) Task Responder - Current date and time - Comments 

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3 months ago
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fortyoneRookie
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
How to padleft with Nintex Automation Cloud

Hello,I am migrating a workflow that uses the padleft function in on-prem environment and wondering how can this be done within the Automation cloud environment?  Basically there is a number field in a SharePoint list that needs 0’s added.  For example if the number is 1, then the result should be 001, if the number is 11 then then result should be 011 where the actual padding to the left is 3.  Just not sure which action to use to make this happen.  Thanks n advance

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3 months ago
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AlanConnectRookie
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Nintex Automation Cloud Workflow backup and restore

Hi I have two questions here in regarding workflow backup and restoration.1. If a workflow is deleted by the workflow owner, is there any way to restore it? Or is workflow restoration a feature planned for future Nintex updates? 2. Since Nintex doesn't seem to support exporting workflows as physical files, what is the recommended approach for backing them up?Thanks

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MillaZ
3 months ago
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wejdanRookie
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Build expense report

Hello, How I can build expense report with more than 8 roles of  authority based on the total requested by customer,examplerole 1: 1000role 2: 5000role3: 6000I want if the customer raised a total is 4500 to go direct to role 2 How I can put a role to check if the total in greater than 1000 and less than 5000 go to role 2 for approval

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MillaZ
3 months ago
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SSAMRookie
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Is there a way to track any bounced email?

Hi,We’re facing an issue where a form is completed to hire a candidate and the initiator enters the candidate’s email address which is then used later in the workflow to ‘assign a task’. Sometimes, these email address are misspelt and nobody realises that the candidate did not receive the task at all until a week or two later it is escalated back to the initiator.Is there a way to track or alert to any bounced emails in Nintex by which this could be prevented?Thanks!

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3 months ago
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NiklasGRookie
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
How to get the group/user name of a multi person-/group column?

Hello,when I use the “Query a list” action in NAC to get a list item from SharePoint, the column with multiple users only returns the ids of the users. Is there a way to get the name of the user by using the ids? I could not find an action to achive this. Is there maybe a different way to get all the names from the column?Thank you and best regardsNiklas

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3 months ago

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