Question

Nintex Forms - Show running workflow and Tasks

Forum|Forum|1 month ago
December 23, 2025
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jochenl
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I have a Nintex forms for Office 365 based on a SharePoint Online Liste. In behind there is an approval Workflow with Nintex Automation Cloud.

I want to improve the usability..so if a user opens the Nintex Forms there should be a message if a workflow is running and in best case the user should see if he has a workflow task assigned .

At first I thougt to do this with a connection in NAC to Nintex Workflow and the “Get Tasks” operation. But unfortunately i cannot query this connection in a Nintex List Form because data lookups are not available there.

I also tried it with an Iframe PlugIn in Nintex Forms and embedding the my Tasks dashboard from NAC or something simliar…but I cannot embedd the NAC environment as an Iframe...it is refused

I can do it manually with separate sharepoint lists and logging the workflow instances and task in this list but this would be a lot of additional effort and also not really fail-save...

Are there any ideas or apporaches to solve this?

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leighburke
Nintex Employee
Forum|Forum|15 days ago
January 13, 2026

@jochenl Usually, for this kind of scenario, I would suggest building the update directly into the workflow to update the existing list item. You may need to add some columns for status tracking. If you need to update the item with task details, you can use actions in a parallel path to retrieve the task details. It would look something like this.