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poppy
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Box.com connection - Move a file

Is there a way to append a file with (2) if a file with the same name already exists? Currently, the 'Move a File' connection for Box.com errors out if a file with the same name exists and the entire workflow ends.  THANKS! 

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K
3 years ago
WouterT
WouterTApprentice
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Calling depth of component workflows - How deep can we go?

How deep can Call a Workflow actions be nested? I remember having read some time ago about a depth of 2: One workflow can call another workflow and that is it. But my simple test today showed that I can call deeper in NWC than 2.Can anyone shed some light here? Was the limitation of 2 maybe from NW Online? I'd like to know the real limitations. Any link to documentation that I couldn't find apparently is appreciated.

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WouterT
3 years ago
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AnneC
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Date Format Mismatches

I am putting a date in a list using NWC, and trying to build a site workflow comparing the date stored to the current date. I want to pull any items with a date less than today's date.  In the site workflow, I created a variable to store the current date, then in the O365 list query, I set it to look for any items with dates less than the variable and send them to a collection. My sample data has 2 items with dates less than today, and one in the future, so this should be pulling the two items.However, I got an empty collection. So I logged the date variable and the collection items and here's the results:It displays correctly in my list:The only reason I can see that it wouldn't work is the date formats, but there's no way to change that on the variable or in NWC, at least not that I can find. TIA 

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3 years ago
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jpmhulsScout
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Does Microsoft's decision to stop SPD2010 workflows in the cloud affect Nintex Workflow Cloud/O365??

Hi, Will the turning off of SharePoint 2010 workflow functionality in SharePoint Online have any affect on the Nintex Workflow products for the cloud?? And if not, will turning of SP2013 workflow functionality in the Cloud in the future affect the cloud Nintex Workflow product??

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3 years ago
DavidAD
DavidADScholar
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Using the Submit button as a 'Cancel' button

Hi, all - NWC newbie here with another question. Is there a way to have the Submit button act as a 'Cancel' button?I have a form that really doesn't need a workflow. It's basically just a worksheet to help certain employees determine which IRS form they're going to need. Form data isn't being submitted or saved anywhere. So what I'd like the Submit button to do is just clear all the data from the form and start over (in case the employee wants to do that).I tried having the form redirect to itself upon submission but that doesn't seem to do anything.Any way to do this?

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DavidAD
3 years ago
Bards
BardsRookie
posted in Nintex Automation Cloud
Generate Document Action - doesn't support Rich Text (or Enhanced Rich Text)

This is a public service announcment - in case anyone ends up going down the path I did. I have confirmation from Nintex support today that unlike the 'Document Generation' action in O365, the NWC 'Generate Document' action does not support Rich Text or Enhanced Rich Text fields. This includes 'Text - long' fields/variables created on a NWC Start form or fields pulled in from SharePoint.  This isn't clear in the support docs for NWC, but there it is. If you want to include data from a Text - Long or Multiple Lines of Text filed in your Generate Document output, it's plain text only.

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WouterT
3 years ago
WouterT
WouterTApprentice
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Glitch in Regular Expression action by making the Replacement text field mandatory?

The country name 'United Kingdom' becomes #UnitedKingdom  in all our articles and messages. Hashtags like this are used a lot. To create these we need to eliminate spaces from the country name. In NW Online I used to do this with a regex action and replace the pattern s (space) with nothing (empty replacement text). In NWC the Replacement text field is now suddenly mandatory. Is this a glitch or does anyone know another easy way to achieve the same result?

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WouterT
3 years ago
WouterT
WouterTApprentice
posted in Nintex Automation Cloud
Possible error in Get A File action

 In Nintex Workflow Cloud the SharePoint Online - Get A File action needs the name of a Document library to get the file from. One obvious choice is almost always there: "Documents". Especially when linked to a team in MS Teams. Seems an easy pick. But when your site is not all English the URL for the Documents library is in another language while it is still named Documents. This actions seems not be able to deal with that properly.  Example: When - once upon a time - you installed your Microsoft tenant and answered "Netherlands"  to the question "In which country is your organisation located?", you're done. All your library names and a lot lot more is suddenly all set to Dutch. Including the language (and folder names) of your teams and a whole lot more. And... it can never be changed anymore. Many know this issue.In this example the URL for the Documents library of your site is automatically named "Gedeelde documenten".Unfortunately it seems to me after a bit of testing that the Get

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WouterT
3 years ago
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Bradley
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
How to get the URL of a file Saved to OneDrive

Hi everyone.Here is an explanation of what I am trying to achieve using NWC and a form to start the workflow.1) User uploads 1 file using the Form -> Submit2) Save the file to OneDrive (This can be achieved)3) Email the URL of the document in OneDrive to someone I can't seem to find a way within NWC to retrieve the URL.One of the solutions I tried was to extract the File Name of the attached file, but this also seems to be unachievable?Thanks in advance 😉

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3 years ago
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alhildrethRookie
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
How can I access User Accounts in Nintex Workflow Online?

I am trying to compare specific "people-type" fields in my workflow to specific user in my department. We have moved to SharePoint Online. I have a "Run-If" that I want to compare "Assigned To" to a specific User "John Doe". In on-premise SharePoint 2013, I used to have a roladex icon and could select a specific user. The icon is no longer available. How do I get around this? I set up a people variable, but I can figure out how to set it to a specific person. Thanks

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3 years ago
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jstraus
posted in Nintex Automation Cloud
Invalid Path error

Hi Nintex community, I'm getting an issue where some instances are failing and throwing the following error:  400 - "BadRequest: Message: Invalid path. Paths must begin with a '/' and end with the name of the resource.. CorrelationId: (f2caaa4a-3313-4c2a-a417-41bb148b3cc4_1_1)" The CorrelationId is different each time. I dug into the workflow actions related to the failed instances and nothing seems to be wrong with it; these branches of the workflow have worked perfectly up until today. 5 of the last 6 instances submitted have failed with this error; one went through just fine. How can I solve this? Thanks in advance. 

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3 years ago
DavidAD
DavidADScholar
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
What if I want commas in my Choice-Single options?

So I have a Choice - Single field on my form, and the choices are supposed to be dollar amounts: $2,000, $5,000, $10,000, and $20,000. Of course the Options are comma-separated, so if I put those commas in the dollar amounts, my choices come out as:$2 000 $5 000And so on. Is there a way of setting these options the way I want? I guess I could create a list in SharePoint Online and do a Data lookup for it, but it seems kinda awkward to create such a small list for one little purpose. Thanks. P.S. I know, of course, that I can create the options without the commas in them, but I just don't like the way it looks for those amounts (especially the $10,000 and $20,000 options).

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allan
3 years ago
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maclearyNovice
posted in Nintex Automation Cloud
Connection string format for connecting to a SQL Server db that resides within a VM

I'm trying to figure out the connection string format for connecting to a SQL Server db that resides within a VM. Not a SQL Azure db. The VM is out in Azure, but it is not a SQL Azure db. (This post however is very descriptive in describing what is needed for SQL Azure: https://community.nintex.com/t5/Community-Blogs/Creating-Microsoft-SQL-Server-Connection-to-SQL-Azure-from/bc-p/119768 ) Normally, within my network in SQL Mgmt Studio I simply use ServerNameInstance such as DAVE2019DEV1. This format used to work when I used Nintex on prem within SharePoint, but that doesn't work in Nintex Workflow Cloud, I get "This field has an invalid format". I am getting here by choosing "Connections" menu, Add new: Connector: Microsoft SQL Server. The "Configure a Connection" popup box appears. I fill in the 5 fields but the "Database Host" field is where I'm getting the invalid format error, (in red just underneath the text box I type into). I followed the instructions in https://help.nintex.com/

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3 years ago
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Anhthu
posted in Nintex Automation Cloud
Querying a SharePoint List and exporting it to Excel?

Hello, I am trying to figure out if it is possible to generate an excel document that contains the queried SharePoint list results? I am trying to make a form where a user can request to have the whole SharePoint list exported to excel or grab specific rows from the list based on a search form and have that exported as a spreadsheet.  I tried to see if I could add a document trigger for the collections variable to the excel document for generation but that doesn't seem to be possible. That might make sense though since the queried results could vary as it could be pulling 1 row to as many as 100 rows from the SharePoint list. I know SharePoint also has a built in option to export the whole list to Excel document and I am also curious if there is anyway Nintex can call that option in SharePoint. Thanks in advance.   

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Gavin-Adams
3 years ago
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cgopalakrishna
posted in Nintex Automation Cloud
Show hide controls based on a list value

we have SharePoint list where we want to configure which field should be shown or not for a group of cascading drop down. We have three Look up controls 1. Product Line, 2.Category 3. Service Type. We also have a list to configure which field on the form should be shown or not based on these 3 look up field combination.Now how can we read this configuration list and show or hide form fieds.With Nintex office 365 we could achieve this using lookup function and variable. NWC doesn't have lookup function nor returns DataLook up control as an object.

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3 years ago
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GeoffERookie
posted in Nintex Automation Cloud
Document Generation - Nintex Workflow Cloud - Get OneDrive File Link

Hi there Folks,   Am using Nintex Workflow Cloud Document Generation action to create a PDF which is then saved in a folder in OneDrive.   Does anyone know how to retrieve the link to the file saved using the Document Generation action? I need the link to use as an attachment in an email action   Best Regards   Geoff

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3 years ago
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bwray_fayfin
posted in Nintex Automation Cloud
Form iframe not appearing properly

First-time poster here. We have a Nintex form on https://www.constructiverenovations.com/vendor-application/ which, until recently (although I don't know exactly when), was working fine. This is a WordPress-based site and the embed code is in a simple HTML widget in the Elementor page editor. The iframe now won't assume its normal full height and, instead, cuts off after only about 160 pixels. I have tested the same code with other pages in the test version of the site and get the same bad result; yet, the embed code works fine within a plain-vanilla HTML page (i.e., outside the WordPress setup). We've made no CSS or other changes that would account for this disparity. Would greatly appreciate any help on this.

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3 years ago
WouterT
WouterTApprentice
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Is there a Document generation SharePoint connector?

I wonder if there is a SharePoint connector for NWC to be used in DocGen? We're not Box users and the only option I see is for OneDrive4B. Am I missing something or should I enter this as a request on UserVoice?Just like in NW365 I'd like to store the output file in a document library on a SP site.Thanks for your reply.

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3 years ago
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NunezmaScholar
posted in Nintex Automation Cloud
Sharepoint on prem- nwc

In my Company we have a corrective actions nintex form and approval workflow in SP on-prem. We need some external users to access and complete the form. Our SP is an internal environment.   Would there be any way to integrate NWC with on-prem to share with external contacts and pass back the info to save in on-prem? Any similar scenarios, information are appreciated.

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Gavin-Adams
3 years ago
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fairpointRookie
posted in Nintex Automation Cloud
NWC Updates Managed Metadata in SP Lists but not in Document Libraries

Pretty please, tell me someone has a solution for this. I've figured out how to update managed metadata in SP lists (most of the time - it's a little temperamental), but I absolutely cannot get those exact same columns to update on a library. This is driving me nuts. Please help. 

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3 years ago
apcherrill
apcherrill
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
NWC Dynamics 365 Record Limit

Is there an artificial limit of 500 records allowed in a query to Dynamics 365?  I am working with a Contacts list that includes 1500+ records, but NWC is returning a query result that there are only 500...    

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3 years ago
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SanthoshKumar-RNovice
posted in Nintex Automation Cloud
Unable to create NWC eXtension for AWS S3 API

Dear all, I am new to AWS. I am trying to connect to AWS S3 API using Nintex Xtensions. I have tried the following and require your help. Tried to connect to Aws S3 via API. Made a successful attempt using Postman Could not continue further as AWS requires “AWS Signature” which doesn’t seem to be possible with NWC As I am not an AWS expert I did some research and understood that if I create a Proxy using API Gateway then I can connect to AWS without “AWS Signature”. So,  Created a proxy for S3 API in S3 Gateway Made a successful attempt using Postman Downloaded the Swagger file that AWS provided and uploaded to NWC as extension & created required connections When calling the method from NWC I get an error, as attached. I have tried all variants of Swagger and nothing seem to work and the error message is quite vague. Has anyone connected to AWS S3 before? Is this is supported? I am attaching the two swagger files that I used (one with AWS and another with AWS API Gateway)

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3 years ago
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Tino22
posted in Nintex Automation Cloud
Generate Document Failed

Hello, I am using ''Generate Documents'' action in my workflow, but when I test the workflow, the process showed the error when run "Generate Documents". Here's the error message: 404 - {"error":{"code":"NOT.FOUND","message":"The requested resource could not be found","correlationId":"8e107870-0826-4abe-b6af-959abb8255f6_1_1"}} I checked my setting, seems no problem. Does any one have this problem like me? Please help advice, thanks. I attached some photos to help you better understand. 

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3 years ago
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StaceyLee
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Run If True Problems

Hi,  Nintex novice here - hoping someone may be able to help.  I have a questionnaire form setup with various answers.  I have a hidden boolean group which based on answer would populate.  ie. If Single Choice Contracts Manager drop down = Mr Smith then the Boolean for Mr Smith is true then within the workflow I have several run if true actions saying if Mr Smith boolean is true then email mrsmith@work.com  Or if Mr Green, Mr Green is true and email mrgreen@work.com and so on. There is about 6 options in total.  The whole thing works perfect if I keep the boolean group visible but as soon as I hide it from the published form view the workflow no longer sends the email to the Contracts Manager.  Does anyone know where I am going wrong?  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks  Stacey 

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DavidAD
3 years ago
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Anhthu
asked in Nintex Automation Cloud
Anyway to resize responsive Nintex form?

Hello,   Is there any way to resize the whole Nintex form in the form designer (specifically the width)? It seems like that the form width cannot be adjusted. I looked in some past posts for Nintex for O365 and they said that you cannot. Not sure if the same goes for Workflow Cloud.   If that is the case, I wonder if this may be implemented in the future.

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3 years ago

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