Nintex Automation K2

Hi,My K2 experience has always been with K2 5 and we recently upgraded to K2 latest version (3.5). One of the benfits of K2 smartforms over SharePoint forms is the ability to show and hide columns on a form dependant on a condition or control choice (great experience for end users). However, I keep noticing that if I hide a 'text' control then it will hide the control but not collpase the row so I end up with a 'massive blank space at the end of the form between the visible columns and the 'Save button and attachments section. When hiding other controls such as a drop down, it does seem to behave as I would expect and fold up the form canvas for end users so that the save/attachements appear directly under the the last visible control ont he form. Is this a bug? I am reluctant to put in a support ticket if this is a known issue but it's really ruining my form design and not sure if there is a fix to get around it? Thanks Julie  

We recently installed K2 Five and I have completed most of the tutorials. However, when looking at the first list of workflows that we wish to create, over 90% of them do not have the originator submitting to their direct supervisor.  This example is nice, but I'm looking for guidance on how to create approvals that go outside of the Manager-Employee relationship. For example, the most important workflow that is on my slate to complete ASAP is one where the end user is picking the advisor they are creating the report for so the advisor can indicate if the report is ready to be published. This is not their supervisor. While I am able to get the drop down to show the names of the Advisors by using a service instance of Azure, if I use that field as the recipient of the task, nothing happens and the instance of the workflow ends at that spot. I need to get a win with K2 as soon as possible and figuring out this part is vital. Are there any other tutorials or examples of different kinds of

I am new to K2, and I have been tasked with create a new option set field that is to be placed on the input form.  I am not sure on how to create this field.  Do I need to create the field in the database table first?  What steps do I need to do to complete this?  Thank you in advance. 

Hi,I am looking to exchange some notes related to the configuration of the Azure load balancer with K2 Five. Specifically, the K2 farm can interact with users via multiple ports captured via:https://help.k2.com/onlinehelp/K2Five/ICG/5.3/default.htm#Prepare/Firewall-Settings.htm Outside of obvious ports 80 and 143, how can I configure Azure's load balancer to allow for monitoring and proper load balancing of other ports? Specifically, can I monitor and load balance ports 5555 and 5252? Thanks a lot.-BJ

I wanted to know that is the new version of K2 still having the Smart Object Tester Tool? Since the new Designer has combined many other tools and features from 4.7, is this tool still active OR has it been replaced with some other tool? I found this article on the Coummnity which says for previous versions also it wasnt seen by default and had to be accessed from the path mentioned in answer :http://community.k2.com/t5/K2-blackpearl/Smart-Object-Tester-Tool/ta-p/76845Is it so in Five as well?

I have created SQL table and then created service instance for that table and created smartobject and smartforms.In the smartform i have a colums called "Column1".  And Column 1 having values called A , B , and C.I want to create a Bar chart report for Column 1 counts.[X - Column 1 values , Y - Column 1 counts] Please help how to do in K2 Five out of box way. If not possible in out of box please provide other ways.

We have a List view using the Method for Workflow Reporting Service (List) : List Activity Instance Destinations and the Finish Date shows 1/1/1900.  When I go into the view and attempt to create an expression to replace the 1/1/1900 to a null value the field is locked out and says I can't use it because of circular references. Is there a way to make that show as null if it hasn't been updated ?  

In the legacy workflow designer, I created an Expression to build a SharePoint document link that--when clicked--opened a Word document in the browser (versus downloading it and opening it in Word). I'm rebuilding the workflow now using the modern designer and can't figure out how to create a similar expression. Here's what my expression looks like in the legacy designer: Document Link: Left(Document ID (Link to Document), LengthToComma)LengthToComma: Find(Document ID (Link to Document), ,) -1 I tried setting variables and can get parts of it, but I can't get the LengthToComma formula to work with the "-1" bit at the end. Kept getting character mismatch-type errors. I couldn't find a way to do expressions in the same way in the new workflow designer.  Anyone have any thoughts?

Hey everyone, I am struggling with Infopaths so thought to ask if anybody in that position. So i would like to share my concenrs.I got an infopath, published in a document library (since K2 five doesnt support form library). When a click new infopath form and the opens in browser ,when submitting the workflow doesnt start.When i submit via infopath designer tool the workflow is triggered. Workflows trigger is when item is added. So..any thoughts why in broswer infopath doesnt trigger workflow? Best regards,Efthimis

Hi,Whenever I create a new view and select for it to be an 'editable list view' It doesn't show the toolbar at the top which has the 'save' 'edit' delete' options on (along with the ootb rules that go with these. I have somehow managed to do it in the past as I have an example view which shows the toolbar but have never been able to find the option for this since and its driving me potty lol I've looked in the settings tab for the editable list view and I have tried creating a view from within designer and also from the artifacts page under the 'new' tab but to no avail. Can anyone pount me in the right direction?WITH TOOLBAR (which is what I want) Thanks, Julie

I would like to connect to our ERP address book table which is held in an azure sql database. I have found the service set up but do not know how to specify only one table. At what point are you requested for an sql statement? I only want to see certain data from the table. This will be used to populate information in a form. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

I can't seem to find an expression operator to subtract months / years from a date. In sql normally I'd run a DateAdd(month, - 6, date) or DateAdd(day, -7) to get my comparison. Is there a good way to do this?I have a Stored Procedure to populate a list based on a range between dates.Today / last week / last 30 days / last 6 months / last yearUsing radio buttons I want to auto populate parameters with my dates (auto set my expressions) I got Today / 7 days from today / 30 days ago from today to work.    

Is it possibe to get the value of a dropdown list via javascript?  When I look at the page source I don't see a control rendered.  I only see Javascript. 

How can we override the theme styles to change the font family ,size and other styles for all k2 controls in the form. Please advise.

In my list view a user can add multiple items which can each start a separate workflow to retrieve further information. When the workflow is started the status is set to pending, once finished the status changes to completed. When all items have a status of Completed I want another workflow to start. Is there any way to achieve this?  Example, if one item contain pending and another completed, user should not be able to submit. If both items are completed then the user can submit but I only want one workflow to start and not one workflow per item. Thanks.

Hi there.   Is there somewhere in the 5.2 workflow designer that allows you to drag the Smartform Runtime URL into something like an email body?   I'm trying to create an e-mail that will reference a form and provide the URL to open the form, but can't seem to find the enviornments library to do so.   Thoughts? Rob 

Hi, I have a process which uses Lithium theme for the main form but at certain points in the form process it opens a 'subform' to a different list.I want the subform to open using a different theme to lithium so it appears seamlessly as part of the pop up window (ie, all white), but I have discovered that even though I set a different theme on the 'sub form', ie; Offcie 2013...  the function of opening it in a subform action seems to adopt the theme of the main (parent form)... which looks a bit silly and not very fluid. I have managed to find the css to manually get rid of the parent theme panel header on the subform, however there is one last style css that ie developer tools is failing me on and I just can't find! QuestionDoes anyone know what the CSS style is for the shadowed box around panels on Lithiumk (not the actual panel border, but the shadowed panel wrapper?  So that I can set a datalabel expression to 'display none or at least change the colour to white? Thanks :-)   

Is it possible to use a picker control to transfer data to a list view? The user can select a single product from the picker list and I want the multiple item details relating to that product to populate in to the list.  Thanks.

Hi all, I'm scratiching my head as to how to achieve this: I have 2 SP Lists.                       List 1 is for recording new employee details.                      List 2 is for adding various people that need an email alert when the a new item is added  In very basic terms whenever an item is added to list 1, I would like the workflow the "scan through" all the list items of of List 2 and send them an email notification (these is an email column set in the list). Thought trains....A) My first thought was to create a reference in the workflow on List 1 to get all list items and try and extract the email columns into a data field in the workflow and use that in the email send to field, I only got as far as creating the reference! B) My current thought train is to put the email workflow on each Item of List 2 and have it trigered on 'updated'.However for that to work, I would need a way of automatically updating a dummy column in all items in one go in order for it to fire the workflo

When I execute the UMUser SmartObject (via Service Tester) and using the Get Users method with the Label Name = K2, it took over 2 minutes to return results (200+ seconds).  A simple search for a Surname (e.g. DisplayName = *Jones*) also takes 2 mintues. However when I do a search BeginWith (e.g. DisplayName = Jones*), it is less than 2 seconds. This is affecting not only my Forms but User managment in K2 Management is awefully slow. Can it be that the initial seeding of the K2 Label included the complete Active Directory and not a specific OU? How can I rectify this? When I test the equivalent ADUser2 SmartObject, I don't get these delays.

This may have already been answered. Does anyone have a good general-purpose SQL query to provide a list out of the K2 database of workflow errors?  I'd like to set up a smart object/view to monitor ALL my workflows for ones that error out.  This is what I've come up with so far: select top 100 percent e.id, p1.FullName, date, e.descr, itemnamefrom k2.Server.ErrorLog einner join k2.ServerLog.procset p1 on p1.ProcVerID = e.ProcIDorder by date desc  And it works up until the point a specified workflow gets modified, then the ProdID from the error table no longer matches the ProcVerID on the procset table.  There's an "Object ID" column on the ErrorLog table, but I can't figure out what that joins to.  All I want to get as a result set is the name of the workflow and the date of the error the item name and the error description for the actual WORKFLOW, not hte current version of the workflow. Thoughts?   My guess is that this is pretty easy...I'm just not finding the right table to join t

Dear Expert, I have seeking for post on how to custome content for out of office email notification. However, i not able to find related post. Currently, when user A configure out of office to delegate the task to user B. User B will receive K2 standard task notification. Subject: FW: New task Content:Hi User B, You've been forwarded a Task: Open Task To action your task via e-mail, reply with one of the following words:You may also reply with on of the standard action words: Redirect Delegate SleepHow can i custome the subject and the contect for this email? Thank you.

Hi Everyone, After chaning the Serivice Account Passwords in SharePoint and K2 we are getting this error.Any advise or ideas to resolve will be appreciated. 0 SharePointRoleProvider.GetContainers: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: An unexpected failure was encountered when contacting SharePoint to get information from the group provider Project Web App: The operation has timed out ---> System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed out at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SPWebRequestExecutor.Execute() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientRequest.ExecuteQueryToServer(ChunkStringBuilder sb) at SourceCode.SharePoint15.Client.ErrorTrackingClientContext.ExecuteQuery(Boolean placeContextInErrorStateOnFail) at SourceCode.SharePoint15.Client.CSOMFunctions.UserFunctions.GetContainers() at SourceCode.Security.Providers.SharePoint.Shared.SPCsomClient.SourceCode.Security.Providers.SharePoint.Shared.ISPGroupProviderClient.GetContainers(IEnumerab

I would like to create an email for our user, the email will contain the URL likehttp://k2form.com?ID=1 Is it possible to pass ID 1 to K2 form? Many thanks.