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kpaszkiewicz
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Obtaining the key after a MySQL insert

I am trying to obtain the key value of an field after a MySQL insert command in Nintex Cloud For example, I might run a mysql command INSERT INTO mytable (firstname,lastname) VALUES('John','Doe') and mytable contains the columns ID, firstname, lastname. Where ID is an autoincremented, key field.    How can I reliably retrieve the value of ID for this insert command? I cannot run a separate SELECT last_insert_id() command because Nintex connects different instances of the workflow with the same connection. I have tried this and it resulted in duplicate keys.  

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AndyEmery
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How do I do a postcode validation in a control on a from?

Hi There, I have created a form where I am asking the user to input a postcode, how do I validate the field to ensure it is a genuine Postcode format for the UK?   I am using NWC   Thanks

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butlerj
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MRT
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Dynamic form options for drop-downs

Hi, Is it not possible to create a form with dynamic options in the dropdowns based on certain criteria.For example; i have a dropdown with 20 different options. When selecting one of these the options of another dropdown should change accordingly. I realize that i could create 20 new groups and make them visible according to the users selection. However, that just seems to tedious and frankly not that dynamic. Am i missing something here?Additionally i am wondering why it is not possible to dynamically update the options in the forms without manually doing it - here i mean it should be possible to extract data through API requests daily for example. 

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NunezmaScholar
asked in Nintex Workflow
NWC and Sharepoint on prem

I'm new to NWC , I was wondering if there is any way to pass values from NWC to Sharepoint on-prem, My specific case scenario is to have users scan barcodes for Employee's IDs and Training Course names and then have the workflow query a list to retrieve Employee and training  details according to the barcodes in order to create Training records.

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butlerj
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mh_informotion
asked in Nintex Workflow
Reusing Form Elements / Creating Containers of Form Snippets

Hello,I am trying to digitize a complex financial decision process in which the user is able to first toggle to select or deselect several categories, and based on these decisions additional fields allow further specification of the case's details. These decisions happen on multiple levels, asking the user to further specify his selections. If a setting is not active however, further specification is not required. (Imagine this as a decision tree which only adds branches when required) In this scenario, the very same form elements might show up at many different places in the process, and would influence different variables each time. However, the user should only be confronted with those forms if it's relevant for the actual case (if he/she rejected an option, there is no need to further configure it).Rebuilding the form for every possible scenario would cause it to become enormously big and complicated, with hundreds of widely identical elements.A soultion to this would be a form tem

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devendra14321
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Are there any issues with Create List Item and update actions today ?

Hello, I am trying to update the create item action with few additional columns and its saving for a moment and the column from the action is getting disappear as soon as i save or publish the workflow :(. So decided to through the Update action and its happening with this as well.  Are there any changes recently to these actions?  Edit: The list has 30 columns of different data types.   Edit 2: It seems the changes are getting rolled-back as soon i try to test the workflow using "Workflow Testing" option. If i re-open the workflow, the columns added to list are there.  Thanks,Devendra 

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mh_informotion
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Connecting Nintex Workflow Cloud to Legacy Systems

Hello, is there any way to send and access data from Nintex Workflow Cloud to/from legacy systems? For example, can data that was entered into a Nintex web form be made available in an on-premise CRM and vice-versa (i.e. establishing a connection via API/JSON)?   Thank you for your help!   M. H.

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devendra14321
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Paging in mobile always leads to bottom of next page

Hello, If we use the paging in the form, when some click "Next" using mobile, it will take the user to bottom of the page rather to the top of the page, may we know why? Edit: Its happening even in the desktop as well.  Thanks,Devendra

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butlerj
Nintex Employee
mcamarco
mcamarco
asked in Nintex Workflow
Submitted Form saved as document in SharePoint

Hello,   I have a form that I created in Workflow Cloud that will be sent out to External Users. Our ultimate goal is to  save the submitted form as a document and attach it to a SharePoint Library.    How can this be achieved in NWC?

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devendra14321
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Deployment of Nintex cloud workflow changes and best practices

Hi, We have a TEST and Production versions of Nintex cloud workflows. I tried to override the production one using TEST workflow but it says, the workflow exists already with the same name.   Also, its a pain to update all SharePoint connections for each action in another workflow( TEST to Production). It would be great if you can have connection at one place or have an option with variables to update the connections between TEST and production.  What are the best practices to deploying changes from TEST to production?  Thanks.  Devendra 

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Gavin-Adams
Gavin-AdamsCommunicator
posted in Nintex Workflow
Data lookup control / Azure AD - email different to username - issue with assigned tasks

We have had an issue with our form and workflow where the email address for a user does not match their username. This is not a data quality issue, there is a valid reason why the primary SMTP/email address is different from their email address. I have a form with a data lookup control with an Azure Active Directory data source.This only returns the email address of the user.We use this to assign a task (form based) to the user.The user receives an error that they cannot access the form. So as an example the email is jadoe@domain.com The username is jdoe@domain.com The task is assigned to jadoe@domain.com, however the user assigned the particpant role is against their username of jdoe@domain.com. And when they log in to NWC they see no assigned tasks in the mytasks dashboard. So the tasks actually need to be assigned to the username of the user not their email address when using Azure AD. I can put in a workaround of 'get user detail' Azure AD action to query for the username and store

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kbarton
asked in Nintex Workflow
NWC data lookup with API

Hi all,   I'm looking for some guidance on a request I am trying to build out.  I am building out a complex approval process in which the end user has to enter 3 fields into a form and then the customer information would populate(13 additional fields used for validation).  Right now I have tested using a bot to go out to our core system and retrieve the cusomter data.  This then emails the end user with that information for them to proceed.  This is unacceptable to them.  What they want is once the 3 data fields are entered, a call to core would occur and retrive the information in order for them to continue with the process.  I see the data lookup control requires an HTTPS for an API call.  Right now we are using http and working on converting our API to HTTPS.  My question is, once we get the API to HTTPS, how will the form perform?  Will it be similar to the SharePoint data lookup where each field is a drop down?   My second question is, is there a way to program a workflow to auto

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poppy
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NWC - downloading Salesforce files

The 'Get file from record' works great with attachments but not files. Is it possible to get a file from Salesforce Files?   I used Salesforce Rest API call to get the download url ... However, I am not sure how I can convert this to a file to then send to Box.  Thank you, 

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jwCbank
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NWC - Use form tool to enter a variable amount of an object/record

For intance, if a user wanted to enter 4 persons, and another person wanted to enter 6 persons, each with a name, phone number, and email address, are there form controls that would allow that?    Ideally I would like the inputs for each person to be entered to show up all at once. So if the user indicates they have 4 persons to enter, they will see 4 name text boxes, 4 phone number boxes, etc. Then I would like to store those values in some sort of collection and have the records created in Salesforceas part of a workflow. How much of this, if any is possible?

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butlerj
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devendra14321
asked in Nintex Workflow
Custom CSS in Nintex cloud form

Hello,   Its it possible to make the questions bold in Nintex cloud form using CSS?   Thanks.

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geoffp
geoffp
asked in Nintex Workflow
OneDrive for Business start event - inconsistent new file detection

Hi all. Currently doing a Nintex trial, I have a NWC workflow set to start on a new file in OneDrive for Business, check some details, then start an RPA botflow. I've been testing this workflow for the past few weeks and most of the time it runs perfectly when the files land (1-3 times per day), but it intermittently fails to detect the new file in ODfB and doesn't run. E.g. I decided to grab some additional details from the files to push through to the final SharePoint Online list, so went back to the start of the month and re-added all the files (in batches of 5-10) for about 35 runs in total. They all ran perfectly except for 3 (in a row) that weren't detected.Since then, it's been detecting the new files maybe 80% of the time. Assuming this isn't standard behaviour, does anyone have any suggestions that might help it to run more consistently?The files arrive as email attachments, and I'm using Power Automate to monitor the O365 mailbox and save them to ODfB for Nintex to pick them

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jmoore
asked in Nintex Workflow
Bad Gateway - Salesforce Gov Cloud

 @burked, do you or your team have any experience with Salesforce Gov Cloud? Our Public Sector Salesforce lives inside a special tenant where only US people have access to the servers, backups, etc. It still does not work despite having spent countless hours trying to get it to work. I have noticed that the NWC workflow, Public Sector – Opportunity Sync often fails to run, or when it does run, it fails. How long should it take for it to listen and hear a modification? Why is it that when I go into the start action in this workflow, it often says, bad gateway, does not let me change the table, and frequently loses the start conditions altogether? When I don’t get bad gateway, Once again the 2 conditions I have added are gone. Also note that the object name is greyed out. I cannot change it. 

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ShaunInIdaho
asked in Nintex Workflow
Inject data into file variable

In Workflow Cloud I'm able to get some JSON content from a web service call.  This allows me to iterate over the JSON and pull out data.  I can actually get the data into a text variable formatted as CSV.  Next, I'd like to save this CSV data to OneDrive, Box, etc... but first I need to get the data into a file variable. Is there a way to save the contents of a text variable into a file variable?  Thanks for your help.

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butlerj
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devendra14321
asked in Nintex Workflow
Exception handling in NIntex cloud

Hello, Could you please advise how to handle exceptions in Nintex cloud workflow?   For example, we would like to get user details from Azure AD based on email entered by user, if the email is incorrect then we get the error in workflow but how we could capture and do If/else based on success or failure so that we could execute other functionality (Send an email to admin if there is an error).   Thanks. Devendra

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butlerj
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devendra14321
asked in Nintex Workflow
Customize default success page

Hello,   Is it possible to customize the default success page in Nintex cloud?   Thanks

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butlerj
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devendra14321
asked in Nintex Workflow
Best practices of Nintex Cloud

Hello, I have found the best practices for O365 Nintex workflow https://community.nintex.com/t5/Best-Practices/Nintex-Workflow-Office-365-Best-Practices/ta-p/85923. Is this applicable to Nintex cloud as well?  Are there any other things we should consider before we use Nintex Cloud?  How can we measure the size of the workflow in Nintex cloud?  Thanks,Devendra 

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butlerj
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Meena
asked in Nintex Workflow
Save as Draft Button Functionality - NWC

Hi, I wanted to have 2 buttons in my form . (Save as Draft , Submit) Is this possible in Nintex workflow cloud form?  what is the best way to create 'Save as Draft' state where a form data can be saved to sharepoint online list without triggering a workflow and without any mandatory validations. ? ThanksMeena R 

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Gavin-Adams
Gavin-AdamsCommunicator
asked in Nintex Workflow
Conditionally display controls in nintex mobile?

Is it possible to conditionally display a start form control in nintex mobile? I have a NWC start form with a geolocation control.I want to modify the control visible property to be conditional that the form is being loaded in nintex mobile rather tha in a web browser.I had a look through the functions but cannot see a 'isNintexMobile' ('isMobileApp') similar function or context.Also I checked out form rules but could not see a way to do it via that method either. 

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jt-vestwell
posted in Nintex Workflow
error when creating a Salesforce Case

We are getting the following error when a workflow is trying to Create a Case in Salesforce.  None of use can tell what field is causing the issues.  Is there any way to determine more details about this error from the Nintex or SF side? {"error":"request id: 5eb46e4be4b09e02916b49b1 response code: 400, message: We can't save this record because the “Case Status” process failed. Give your Salesforce admin these details. An error occurred when executing a flow interview. Er[TRUNCATED]  

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butlerj
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OldAdelaide
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Nintex Cloud - DateTime in Australian Standard Eastern Time [Melbourne]

Nintex Cloud:Does anyone know how to create the current Submit date/time "in Australian Standard Eastern Time" [i.e. Melbourne] in an email's Subject area?  Or in the Body of the text?

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