I have not worked on O365 Nintex that much. But from your statement I feel that when "Save" is clicked the item should be visible by Approvers but Workflow should not work after clicking on "Save and Submit" the wokflow should start?
If that's the situation then:
- Add a column named "CheckSave" with default value 0
- Add 2 "Save and Submit" buttons .i.e "Save" "Save and Submit". During the New form make "Save and Submit" button hidden When save button is clicked Approvers would be able to see the item but workflow wont start
- During the edit by Approver make"Save" button hidden and connect "Save and Submit" button to "CheckSave" and return the value 1.so when the button is clicked it will be 1
- Now in workflow check if the "CheckSave" is 1
No, some nodes of the workflow is actually updating information(or Unlimited times approval). so based on what the blog(Nintex Forms - Save or Submit - Vadim Tabakman) said, when a workflow task comes, current approver could click Button of "save" action to update the information, when current approver had given enough information, he might click Button of "save and submit" action to end current approval process, then the workflow would go to next approver. Howerver, what I found Button of "save" action in workflow office 365 is just draft to current approver, updated information couldn't be share to other approvers. Only when approver clicked Button of "save and submit" action, could the information be really saved and be able to see by other approvers, however, in this case, current approvers could only update the information for once, then the approval process is moving to the next approver( or do some logic control, just infinite loop, can't jump to next approver).
We thought a workaround, just resending workflow to current approver, as this node has multiple approvers, it's boring and weird to cancel and to resend other approvers current workflow task again and again. So we have to do some filter-work when we resend current workflow task. too much work to do and it's not easy to do filter-work.
So at last, we found Button of "save" action is the best choice and what we need, but by the demo we built and tested, it's just a draft for current approver, I don't know if I had do some thing wrong or not got enough information of Nintex office 365.
Nintex Forms for Office 365 - Release Notes
26th April 2017
- Save and Continue - A new button action that will allow users to save a form and keep the form open.
Seemed what I need(I am not sure if updated information could be seen by other approves, I don't have a test environment at hand), but it's too late for my previous project.
