Nintex Workflow

I tried to use a people picker action on a NWC Task and I keep getting content fail to load message. It does work in the design preview of the task form.  

@Deon Has created an awesome new xtension that you can get here. Which allows you to utilise the power of ChatGBT and Dall-E from a workflow. ChatGPT and Dall-E are both artificial intelligence (AI) tools that are being used in business process automation to streamline and improve various business processes. ChatGPT is a chatbot that uses natural language processing (NLP) to understand and respond to user queries in a conversational manner. It can be used to automate customer service inquiries, data entry tasks, and other repetitive tasks that require interaction with users.Dall-E, on the other hand, is an AI tool that can generate unique images and content based on user prompts. It can be used to automate tasks such as creating marketing materials, product design, and visual content creation.Both ChatGPT and Dall-E are being used in a variety of industries to improve efficiency and productivity and can be integrated into existing business processes to automate and streamline tasks. Th

Is there any way to specify the workflow initiator context variables (first name, last name, and email) when starting a workflow instance via the NWC API? We’ve started working with the API and it seems quite useful, but it doesn’t seem to take into account if I include the ctx_first_name, ctx_last_name, and ctx_email in my start data JSON object. The other start event variables work fine, but not the initiator info. When I start a workflow instance via API, it seems to only ever have the below info for the initiator.  "ctx_user": {    "ctx_first_name": "APP",    "ctx_last_name": "NWC Connection",    "ctx_email": "app.nwcConnection.XXXXXXXXXXXX@YYYYYY.com"  } I can imagine it may be doing that for the sake of truly representing where a workflow instance came from. It would just be convenient if I were able to manually specify who the initiator is. We use those context variables throughout our workflows and we’re wanting to be able to put in a form on behalf of someone (using an automat

I love that Nintex provides a roadmap for what’s on the horizon for their products. It’s definitely great to be able to see what’s coming and get a better understanding of where their current development focus is at.  We have a couple projects that we’re holding off on tackling until some of these roadmap features are released. That being said, the Nintex Automation Cloud section of the roadmap is still living in Q3 2022. Do any Nintex employees know when the roadmap may be updated for Nintex Automation Cloud? Also, is NAC the abbreviation we’re using now? Thanks!

Not sure if this is the best way to do this… but I added an idea to Nintex. Please go vote.  Thank you  Idea created: IDEA-I-5995Ability to restart failed action in a WFC and continue existing workflow. 

Hi,I am trying to update dropdown value based on another dropdown value. Eg: I have a choice column TestA which has Yes and No as radio buttons and another column TestB which also has radio buttons with Yes and No values. If I select Yes in TestA, it should also check Yes in TestB. Any possible ways?Thank you! Appreciate your response!

Using the Exchange online send an email action, as I want a user to be able to reply to the email.But the design is such that I’m sending to multiple addresses held in variables, and sometimes one or more of those variables could be empty.  That’s throwing an error that the empty string cannot be resolved to a user, which must happen before an email is sent.How do we handle those sorts of scenarios without a hundred different “set conditions” to try to handle all the possible combinations of one or the other variables being blank (there are actually 4 different variables in my case, so I’d have a large number of potential combinations of things being filled while others blank, and any blank causes an error).  I originally thought to concatentate a string, but a string with multiple email addresses also throws an error.  Any guidance?

Hi All, Good DayI have question regarding Nintex cloud form, where we need to read multiple record from Sharepoint list and show it to the user in the Nintex form based on site id .For example :- for site 1234 I need to show all this record into the form with these information. As I can see the no option available (Data object) to read multiple record from Sharepoint list in Nintex form.Please advise if you have any suggestion on this.

This afternoon we’ve started seeing a lot of slowness related to actions that connect to external services (like querying a SharePoint list or updating a Smartsheet row.)  Actions that typically take a few seconds to run seem to be taking half an hour.  The Nintex Services page isn’t showing any current issues with the platform, so I’m not sure if it’s new or just our tenant.  Is anyone else seeing any actions take way longer to complete this afternoon?  Thank you! Update - Looks like the Nintex Services page was updated with the incident.  Please disregard!

Hi, Im trying to do some conditional formatting on the Outcome select in Nintex Workflow cloud using the forms based approval.I do not see the form controls or context to reference it in my formula. Is there another way to reference the Outcome in a Workflow based form? 

Greetings: The  default view of the workflows in my NWC tenant  dashboard is unfiltered, so I see a lot of workflows in various stages of development and testing as well as the ones that are in production.  I have created tags to apply as filters and this works great but there doesn’t appear to be a way to save a filtered view of the dashboard as the new default view).  It’s a royal pain to have to apply the same filters each time I click on the dashboard. Is there a way to set a filtered view as the default?

Hi, In this blog you will see a fun way to generate virtual cards using an Xtension I wrote for DynaPictures. DynaPictures is a dynamic image generation capability that allows you to manipulate text, images, colour, size etc., on multiple layers on an existing template. In this case it is a Christmas card that’s sent to one recipient, but the workflow can be changed to run off of a list, either set up in the start form at runtime or from an external solution like a SharePoint list. First, a look at the template in DynaPictures:Designing a template is easy, you specify the layer type (image, text, charts etc.). You then define the layout and colour amongst other things with placeholder text and images. Give each layer a unique, descriptive name to understand what that layer does. In this case we will focus on the title, message, avatar image and a custom image that will be pushed to DynaPictures from Automation cloud, coming from the start form. In Automation Cloud we simply capture the

On the NWC SQL Server Connection does anyone know how to configure it using a port other than 1433? This is just an example but I have tried xxx.xxxx.com:14333 and xxx.xxxx.com,1433 but I get an error in the database host column.

I’m NWC I’m trying to use update item action Sharepoint on-prem based on ID and boolean condition, however I'm getting the following error.Received an error response from the connector: InternalServerError, ResponseStatus: Completed - {"error":{"code":"-1, System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException","message":{"lang":"en-US","value":"The given key was not present in the dictionary."}}}. [Error Code: IO.XtensionExecute.ErrorResponse] I already tried deleting and recreating the connection and it still not working. Create item action works fine.

While performing an upgrade from O365 to NWC (Automation Cloud) workflow, The NWC Start Event doesn’t recognize one of the O365 Form fields.How can I get it to recognize that field?The NWC error message is  Appreciate any assistance

Hi everyone.I’m having an issue with tasks not generating emails, it doesn’t matter if I use a variable for the email address or test using my own email address for the assignee, an email isn’t generated.  I can successfully send an email using the send an email action later in the WF using the same variable used for the task.The issue happens during workflow testing and when running the WF after publishing to development.  I’m not sure if it matters but the WF has been developed in a demo tenant.I would like to show the use case to a client but I would like to demo the full experience of receiving an email and clicking the link to action a task form.Any advice would be appreciated.ThanksTania

Nintex is retiring the Assign a task action, which will no longer be available for new workflows as of 31st December 2022. Instead, use the Assign a task to multiple users task action to take advantage of many new capabilities around assigning tasks.Please check out the news post for more details:  

Hi All,I’m trying to access data from a people form control using a get item from collection action within a loop for each action but as you can see below, the object’s data is greyed out.  Is there another way to access the people control data? 

We are migrating to Nintex Online.  My understanding is we cannot migrate workflow history from on-prem to Nintex/SharePoint online.  We need an audit history of all on-prem workflow approvals (through flexitasks etc) generated by Nintex.  Is there a report available for this?  We can’t be the only organization requiring this.

Hi everyone,as I understand this is not possible but I still wanted to ask if there is a workaround or so. Is it possible to go backward during a process is running? For example, if a form is submitted for approval but I need to change a field's input. Can I go back and edit it? Or do I have to start from scratch?Best regards, 

Hello, is there a way to change a Yes/No field value in a form, based on that fact that there is an attachment uploaded in the same form using form rules or not?Thanks

Hi All, Currently, in Nintex WF we have classic form which has a timeline status-like bar based on javascript and CSS. We migrated the same workflow to NWC, but since classic forms are not supported in NWC, I am looking for help. Is there any way to achieve the timeline status functionality in an NWC responsive form? Below is the status timeline. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in Advance.  

I am retrieving JSON data and the dates come in as part of the string. I can parse the data and see it in the log.Query JSON All Award Date - ["44907","","44562","45219"]How do I convert the string, like "44907" to a date format so I can post the data to a date field in SharePoint?Thanks

Hi Everyone I have a use case where I need to extract data from excel. Using the Get Table Rows action, I'm able to access the data in the Rows collection but that gives me the index and row data together as one item in the collection. I need to be able to access the Row data so I can use the Get Item From Collection action to extract the required data into variables but it is always greyed out. Does anyone have a solution?   

Hi All, In my form, I have check boxes which allows a multi-selection by the user.Based on certain conditions, an email will trigger to an external party. If more than 1 box is selected, I need to include either "and" or ";" in the email, so it doesn't show as run on text. Eg the email currently looks:If selecting 3 options: "Box 1 Box 2 Box 3" If selecting 2 options; "Box 2 Box 3" If selecting 1 option; "Box 1"I need it to look likeIf selecting 3 options: "Box 1; Box 2 and Box 3" If selecting 2 options; "Box 2 and Box 3" If selecting 1 option; "Box 1"Is there a way this can be done?