Nintex Automation K2

Hi All, General question to anyone who has worked on both K2 and ServiceNow. I know that ServiceNow has some Business Process Automation capabilities. My understanding is that ServiceNow gives the ability to create workflows and forms. I want to understand pros and cons of ServiceNow and K2 in terms of Business Process automation for simple and complex workflows and forms. I want to also understand comparative analysis of ServiceNow and K2.  Can you also point me to any material which discusses these? ServiceNow doesn’t feature in Gartner scale for BPM tools. Thanks in advance.. Regards,Manju

Hello guys, I am having great fun using K2.  It's so simple and easy to use.  However I have run into a small problem.  When posting my article using K2, if i navigate using the top menu the article appears fine for e,g Arma 3 news/article.  However If I click on the article using the main JO K2 slider all the text appears in bold writing. Is there settings I have missed somewhere that makes it appear in bold?  I really would like it to display as intended.  For preview purposes How the page should look and how it looks when viewed from the main slider All bold when clicked via the slider Any help would be fantastic,   Thank you EDIT: Actually the page displays always in bold.  The only time it does not display in bold is when the article is displayed in a list of different news article.  If you click on heading to view whole article then everything is in bold writing :(

I have come across another post that recommends a Timer Control but then in the comments someone stated this is now new functionality in K2Five. Is this correct and if so how do I set my list view to auto-refresh every x minutes/seconds without taking action on the form?

Hello, Recently i was tested new K2 5 Workflow Designer and noticed that there is no Advanced Destinations(Plant Per Destination, Plant Per Slot). There is also no way to install K2 Studio or K2 for Visual Studio(Except case when K2 4.7 with installed K2 fot Visual Studio was updated to K2 5). Does anybody know the reason of removing such strong functionality?

With K2 Five, will there be any support for visual studio or is it all in browser?  Are you still able to add custom code? Is there any available documentation yet?  If not, do you have a release date? Thanks, David ScottSolution Architect

I've been into the use of the K2 tool for a long while, but one of my utmost challenge is about how to build a workflow to identify a failed activity and retry itself automatically, without manually employing the service of the retry button on the Error Profile page. Where I use K2 for Workflow implementation, there are always instances in which there is a network break, and the Workflow runs into error. Is there a way to build exceptions into Workflows in K2 Studio, such that, when there is a Network Break, the activity in question at that time gives a Return value, that can be built into a line rule to retry the workflow? I really need this to implement into all Activities for every workflow I build, so that the support Team gets to do less job, as they always have their hands full managing so many different Applications at the same time. All possible Reply, Advice and Resolution will be warmly welcomed.  

I'm new to K2.  I have a user who wants emails sent from the workflow to have the "approving manager's" email address as the reply to instead of the default server address (that will bounce) so the end user can reply to that approving manager directly.  I know it's not possible 'out of the box' but any  help/suggestions are welcomed.

The error below was encountered while using K2 Package and Deploy. '30003 RuntimeService has encountered an error. Exception of type 'SourceCode.SmartObjects.Clients.SmartObjectException' was thrown. Any suggestion as to the cause of the error. Thanks.

Hi, 1. I have worked in K2 version 4.7 designer as well as workflows. Now I got a chance to work in K2 five, In K2 five,  I can able to download the workflows in K2 management. then how I can upload the downloaded workflows ?. 2. Is there any possibility to use outcome workflow templates in K2 five?These templates available in K2 five ?(https://help.k2.com/onlinehelp/k2smartforms/userguide/4.7/default.htm#K2D4SF_Outcome_Templates.html)  Thanks,Gokulnath

If I build SmartObjects for, say, Employee and Department. Within the Employee object I have a relationship to a Department (the department in which the employee works). And the Department object has a sub object for the department head, which is an Employee object. If I load an Employee, the employee's Department sub-object should also get loaded, which then loads another Employee sub-object which is the department head. Whould this cause an infinite loop? Is this dangerous?

 Hi. I seem to have hit a dilemma. I'm running Joomla 3.8.1, Latest K2.. 2.80 THE ISSUE: http://mydomain.com/component/k2/author/534-username As an author, my readers are supposed to see my Profile, I'm logged into the back end. I'm logged out of the frontend. All this works great... I can view my profile.NOW: This is where this gets interesting. Another author's url: http://mydomain.com/component/k2/author/551-username - Keeps redirecting back to the home page.Have I missed something here? This is happening to all the Authors which I created for them and registered for them... All except mine. Whether I'm logged in or not. frontend or backend. I've looked everywhere for this issue.  I'm using a Gavick template gk_news2 template. - I've gone through all the settings in K2 categories and the parameters and found that everything that relates to the author page is set to on.   What can it be?  Any Advice would be helpful.   Thanks. Fred 

I have a datalabel that looks like button, it has an "OnClick" event and I can do alerts etc. so the JS is working. e.g. <button onclick='alert('clicked!');'>Click Me</button> What I'd like to know if it is possible to ether ... (A) Call/execute a rule from the onclick event(B) Populate another data label that when I click a K2 Button Control it can submit the new value back to SQL/SharePoint/Wherever! I've been trawling the threads for a while now and can't find anything that seems to work Thanks!

Hi all,  Not sure if someone here can help. We are using the DynamicADSO Smart Object and would like to create a new User with the following details, but receiving an error with "an invalid dn syntax has been specified dynamicadso" sAMAccountName: first.lastCommon Name: First NameOU: OU=First,OU=Second What should be the correct "Common Name" value to create a new user where the sAMAccountName is different than the CN. 

Hello, i am using Visual Studion 2015, and i dont knwo how to configurate the dataSource . Regards Lamiae

Is there any way to configure sorting of the autocomplete control's items when performing a live search? I can find no way to set this, as there is no rule for populating the data, and when configuring the SMO on the control, there is no sorting option. 

I have a list view where i capture employee's Time' In and Time Out at end of there shift. Both of those controls are of type Time. Once Values are Set, i would like to get time diffrence between timein and timeout. How can i do that, results needs to be stored in Time format? Thank You 

I'm working on a process right now that I have to create using K2 Studio and not K2 Designer. All of the directions I have found on the K2 site have been for using Designer and I was wondering if anyone has had any success in having a step within a workflow created in K2 Studio. This is for a workflow for ad/press materials that cycle to the Marketing Department and then to a series of approvers. The Marketing Department will never be accessing the request on a mobile device. But when it goes from Marketing to the Approvers, if I can get a snapshot of the form as a PDF to attach to the email, it will be best as the Approvers are often mobile and not in the office. I also had noticed in all of the directions I found that the creation of a PDF was being placed in a rule with a button click. Since I want this to be done within a workflow, is there a way to not have the PDF creation happen with a button click, but have it created as a server task?

We are developing sharepoint form using K2 smartform. We are having 11 lookup values in the sharepoint list. we are able to save the item in the list.but while retriveing[Get List item] we are getting the error added in the attachment.Please let me know if we can retrive more than 11 lookup using Smartobject method rule without error.

Hello all, i have the following scenario:Two Sharepoint lists used for storage:1. one stores classes with a class id and no of seats fields.2. and the other stores registrations by storing class id fom the first list and student id who is registering to this class. in the form, i shall display to the user all classes he can register to, which means: classes which he didnt register to, and classes which still have seats (based on the no of seats available from the first list and the number of registered students from the second list) i tried to add the classes list to the list view, then try to filter them, but i cannot use a smartobject (the registration smartobject) in the filter process. do you have an idea how this can be done? RegardsLuay

  Unbound rules are a great feature in K2. This allows you to create a rule and later call the rule when you need it. For instance I can create a single rule to update a Smartobject. If I have 5 or 6 states within the form I can simply call the update rule whenever it is needed. Here is where unbound rules are beneficial. Say you do not use unbound rules and you have to create a rule on each state to update when the form is actioned. If you make a change or add a column to the smartobject then you will have to modify each rule on each state to reflect that change. If you use an unbound rule and simply call the rule on each state when needed you will only have to modify one rule. If you use a naming convention on your unbound rules it makes it really easy to troubleshoot your forms and it looks very clean. We divide our unbound rules by Rules and Sub Rules. A sub rule might be a single action. A main rule might call multiple single actions. And example would be.. "Rule Update SmartObjec

Hi all,    I recently bumped into a nifty functionality that could easily be overlooked. So i just wanted to share it with you.      You can actually easily turn any text, into a hyperlink!      Here's the "How To":     Create a view with a Rich Text Box control. Add some text into it.           Next, highlight the text (can be 1 character, 1 word, multiple words, etc) you would like to link to URL.      Then, hold down CTRL + K (this is where the magic happens!)     This window will now pop up on your screen.          Here, you can change the TYPE (http:, https:, mailto:, ftp:, etc you name it!) and then insert the desired URL. Here, i'm just using Google because... well, it's google!           Then, you can see that we have successfully turned the highlighted text, (in my case, "This") into a hyperlink!           And for you coders out there, this is what it looks like in HTML. You can see that we essentially just wrapped the <a href> tag around the selected word, redirecting i

I have a Radio Group that contain elements New, Old and Existing. When clicking on either of these values I have the OnChange rule firing to clear out a fields associated to these values. That way the user can enter data associate to that element. For example:OnChange Event of RadioGroup1 New --> Clears Field1, Field2, Field3. Display Field1Old -->  Clear Field1, Field2, Field3. Display Field2Existing --> Clear Field1, Field2, Field3. Display Field3.  But on the initialization/loading of the form,  the Radio Group OnChange event is automatically fired when SmartObject set the value of the Radio Group and clears out the data I want to display on Field1-3. How do I code to prevent this?

Hi, I am using K2 for SharePoint and I have a scenario like  I had a list with multiple items I need to read each item and have to append value from particular column into a multi-select drop down.  Eg++++List A++++Column 1     Column2```````````````````````````````````````````Item1                  abcItem2                  sdfItem 3                 ert  have to append column2 values into drop down. like this when Dropdown is clicked it should show this values in dropdown(first value-->abc,2nd value-->,sdf,3rd value-->ert)   Thanks in advance... 

Hi, I am using a K2 designer for SharePoint  , I am facing difficulties with adding people from multiple people picker control to SharePoint group through a workflow.People from Single people picker is added easily.  Thanks in advance.

If you recently had MS security updates installed on your machine you might have issues accessing K2 Management. See atached screenshot of what you might see.    ISSUE  Users are facing UI issues in application in IE11  browser.  Menu options are not displayed properly in the website. We notice that at the time of the issue, min-height becomes 0 pixel and hence menus aren’t displayed.   Issue was reported from installation of March update IE 11.0.40 After uninstalling the March patch, issue was not reproducible. Also, when document mode is changed to IE11/Edge, issue is not present. Issue doesn’t exist when you check it directly in IE10 as well. Issue could impact all the internet users whoever is using your management application.         NOTE: This will only occur when accessing the K2 Management Page from Sharepoint Context. Ie accessing from the K2 app in SP.     Cause:  MS introduced change  KB4012204        Fix:  The fix has been released for this already and is available to down