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Getting data From Excel & Writing back to Excel?

  • July 17, 2026
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Using a Nintex Workflow, has anyone had success getting data from an excel file, transforming it to be used in Workflow Variables, and then writing it back to a new excel file? I am able to get the data from the file and “read” it, but it’s funky, like Json nested in Json or something, and I can’t get the columns or values as normal text so that the workflow can read it accordingly in branching or transformation steps. I’ve worked on this a lot over the last year and have not been successful. I have already reviewed existing help articles on this topic. 

I am looking for someone who may have already accomplished this in a workflow who wouldn’t mind sharing their workflow actions/configuration so that I can plug in my own file information and get rolling. Thank you in advance.

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Simon Muntz
Nintex Partner
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  • Nintex Partner
  • July 19, 2026

Hi ​@mrod,

Use a Query JSON action in a loop to extract your data into a usable format.
If you provide a sample of the JSON that is extracted and advise which parts you need put into variables, I may have the time to create a simple workflow for you.
 


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  • Author
  • Nintex Employee
  • July 21, 2026

Thank you, Simon. This is what the data looks like after logging to instance details (after the Query Json step inside the loop). 

 

In this workflow, I am using Get Table Columns. This is all dummy data that you are seeing. What I am trying to do is read the columns, extract the variables, then use those as branching conditions later in the workflow. Here is an example of the data set (dummy data). So I’d like to extract each column as its own variable, so that in branching conditions I could say something like, “If “EE Type” = Core and EE Status = “Terminated”, Send an Email. 

Thank you in advance for your help.


Simon Muntz
Nintex Partner
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  • Nintex Partner
  • July 21, 2026

Hi ​@mrod,

Loop through your column values collection.
Use a regular expression on each current value to extract the text.

(?<=\[").*(?="\])

And then add to a new collection so that you can work with the data elsewhere in the workflow.


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  • Author
  • Nintex Employee
  • July 22, 2026

Thanks, Simon. I will try that!