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Hi all, I’m creating a form which requires a feature to export a list view to an email.The view will be filtered to not show existing records on the table - only what the user has entered in the current session. This is the only info required on the email. The form will be used mostly on handheld devices, so exporting to Excel and manually emailing is not an option.Open to any suggestions. Many thanks in advance,Jordan

Hi I have two questions here in regarding workflow backup and restoration.1. If a workflow is deleted by the workflow owner, is there any way to restore it? Or is workflow restoration a feature planned for future Nintex updates? 2. Since Nintex doesn't seem to support exporting workflows as physical files, what is the recommended approach for backing them up?Thanks

Hello, How I can build expense report with more than 8 roles of  authority based on the total requested by customer,examplerole 1: 1000role 2: 5000role3: 6000I want if the customer raised a total is 4500 to go direct to role 2 How I can put a role to check if the total in greater than 1000 and less than 5000 go to role 2 for approval

Hi,We’re facing an issue where a form is completed to hire a candidate and the initiator enters the candidate’s email address which is then used later in the workflow to ‘assign a task’. Sometimes, these email address are misspelt and nobody realises that the candidate did not receive the task at all until a week or two later it is escalated back to the initiator.Is there a way to track or alert to any bounced emails in Nintex by which this could be prevented?Thanks!

Hello,when I use the “Query a list” action in NAC to get a list item from SharePoint, the column with multiple users only returns the ids of the users. Is there a way to get the name of the user by using the ids? I could not find an action to achive this. Is there maybe a different way to get all the names from the column?Thank you and best regardsNiklas

I have a complex workflow that updates a Nintex group to match the membership of a corresponding AD group. It works most of the time, but it runs many steps and for 1 specific group, the workflow terminates, probably because it reaches some limit. I was wondering if you can take a look and see if you can help me optimize this workflow so it won’t run into these problems. Here is my workflow:The inputs are the Name of AD Group & the Name of Nintex Group (which are often the same). Action 1 - Get all the members of the AD group.Action 2 - Get all the Nintex Groups in the tenant (because I don’t yet know a method to get a Nintex Group by name without looping through all the groups).Action 3 - Get all the Nintex users in the tenant (because I don’t yet know a method to get a Nintex user by name without looping through all the users).Action 4 - Loop through each Nintex Group.Action 5 - If one Nintex Group name matches the group name we want, then run this next step:Action 6 - Loop throu

Is this an oversight when releasing this feature? Button (nintex.com) I do not see anywhere in the help documentation where in states the button control is ONLY for start event forms. Our assumption was it’s for form designer for tasks or start events. Can someone look into this???? Form Designer for Start event forms: Form designer for Task forms: 

Is there a feature on the roadmap (e.g., under Workflow settings > Workflow publishing) that would allow specific roles or groups to have permission to delete a workflow?Background: In our current support structure, workflow stewardship falls on citizen developers and workflow owners within the business. They proactively manage day-to-day troubleshooting, receive failure alerts, and escalate issues to IT if necessary. Currently, users with workflow owner permissions can delete workflows. However, until Nintex introduces a proper backup and restore feature, we cannot fully hand over management of our 400+ workflows to the business side. The risk of accidental deletion or, in the worst-case scenario, a compromised account resulting in malicious deletion, makes it critical to restrict the ability to delete workflows to certain user groups. This feature would be extremely beneficial.Any idea from best practise point-of-view is welcome :)

Is there a feature that enables alert on instance failure to form initiator?

I have multiple workflows that are erroring with “failed to start” or “failed to run”. I want to know how to write a SQL query to find all of them.

I am attempting to change the instance name to reflect variables in the start form using the 'Set instance name.'  I understand that this action should change the instance name in the My Nintex dashboard to the selected variables in the action.  This will make the instance easily identifiable by the user. Is the action configured correctly?  There is no change in the name reflected in the My Nintex dashboard. See attached screenshots.  

Issue DescriptionWhen you start the K2 Service, it stops responding and an error occurs.Error Message:The following error in the Event View occurs: “Application: K2HostServer.exeFramework Version: v4.0.30319Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.Exception Info: System.NullReferenceExceptionat SourceCode.Hosting.Server.Runtime.HostLoadBalancedServerManager.get_Logger()at SourceCode.Hosting.Server.Runtime.HostLoadBalancedServerManager.Poll()at SourceCode.Hosting.Server.Runtime.HostServerEngine.DBConnectionWorker()” ResolutionThe fix is available in:K2 Five (5.6) Fix Pack 40. Nintex Automation (5.7) Fix Pack 16. Nintex Automation K2 (5.8) Fix Pack 01.Ensure you have the correct K2 version and/or Cumulative update installed. See KB001893 to see what Fix Pack level you have installed. Download the latest Fix Pack using the links in the table above for the version you require. Install the Fix Pack to apply the fix.

Hi, Been doing some training in NLX with SF as a datasource for my models. After about 30 minutes, the connection to SF fails and I get the error below. Losing hours of work. Any help appreciated. The following errors occurred:1. Error retrieving metadata for model(s) associated with data source 'Salesforcev3'. Please check models' properties to ensure they are set correctly. Unable to authenticate to Salesforce. Metadata could not be retrieved. Login has been cancelled

Hello,I want to use the padLeft functionality to change a variable in my NAC workflow.Is it possible to use any functions in the workflow, or are they exclusivly for Nintex Forms?Using Nintex for SharePoint 2019 it was possible to use the functions inside of a workflow likefn-padLeft(txtDocumentID, 5, "0")Is there maybe a workaround to achive this without buildung a custom action for NAC?Thank you and best regardsNiklas

Hi Team, I have been creating some custom formulas and today when wanting to edit one, it had vanished.This is how I have been creating them and what it should look like.But today when going to edit one, it shows this:When I test it in preview it works as intended. I spent a lot of time creating the formula, so I am hoping there is a way for me to recoup the code? Any advice is appreciated. Cheers,Benjamin.

Idea has been created for this, please vote for it! (https://ideas.nintex.com/ideas/CNV-I-314) We’re finding that the new Error Handling features are great - when they work.  Unfortunately, the vast majority of the errors we’ve gotten since its introduction still cause the workflows to fail. In almost all these cases, retrying the failing command would have succeeded, which is the point of the error handling. My assumption is that the errors we’re receiving aren’t setup to apply to Nintex’s error handling. Ideally (to me at least), this caveat wouldn’t even exist, and the error handling could apply to ALL instances where a step failed, regardless of how it failed. My question is this - If we have an error that we think error handling should be capable of catching, but isn’t, what is the preferred way for us to tell Nintex that we’d like to have it supported?  I presume either a support case or an Idea submission, but I’m making a forum post so that it’s public as to what way Nintex pre

Hi,   I have a workflow that is not giving the option to select ‘Current Item’.  I need that to loop.  below is a output from a ‘Query a List’ .  ID’s for records to interrogate I have available coming from SharePoint Online menu item  / a notification email shows each ID I need to hit.  but in the loop I”m only getting a single record even though appears I am hitting my list through all records.But only get the first tested record to send a run if true email based on conditions.      The Output →  result is of type file.

I have a simple wizard where I need to copy four columns from excel and paste the values in fields of a web base application.My commands include:**Get worksheet (Excel worksheet actions DAC); Copy from Excel (range of cells into a variable); Get Array Data (using column delimiter, I am separating each column value into a variable, to later ‘input text’ in the application)My problem is when the command for Get Array Data pulls in the last column it also brings in the row delimiter and the value of the first column.    The command reads like this:  From the array stored in (my variable created from the Copy from Excel) Where items are delimited by $column delimiter$ Get the value of item #4 (since it is column 4).  My row delimiter is ***.  The value that is pulled in for the last column and stored in the variable reads something like this:  123456***123456789.  It pulls in the data in the last column AND the data in the first column of the next row.Any help you have to offer with this w

In a process can I link back to a previous step.  Say step 3 in a process to step 2 and step 9 loop back to step 7?

Hi all, We want to use the API for the automatic creation of users.We have used the documentation as a template, but unfortunately we always get the error 403 with the reference to rfc9110#section-15.5.4.Reading the tenant via ‘get users in Tenant’ and deleting users works.Does anyone have any ideas?Thank you Christian Create user in tenant | Nintex Automation Cloud

Hi all,I have looked and cannot see this mentioned elsewhere, apologies if it is.I want to create a simple start event form (well it started simple) just to add a new row to a SharePoint list.I want though to show the existing entries that are already on the list on the form to help stop duplications. Due to spelling differences and differing names cannot use validation. I can link the data and add a drop down. Does anyone know a way of adding a list if entries onto a form from a SharePoint column.Many thanks in advanceJamo

Hi, I am trying to use API to get workflows assigned to a specific user. Is there a way to do it?

After running NWAdmin PurgeHistoryListData and NWAdmin PurgeWorkflowData, the WorkflowProgress table within the SQL database does not get cleaned up. Still old entries reside in the table. This causes the WorkflowProgress table to exceed the threshold of 50.000 datasets. I have even tried to clean up using the stored procedure "dbo.PurgeWorkflowData", but still no luck. Also using the GUI in the Central Administration did make any difference. May I delete these old / not needed entries within the WorkflowProgress table via a T-SQL DELETE statement or will this cause issues? Is there another way to clean up the DB tables? Thank's in advance, any help is highly appreciated 🙂 Used Commands: NWAdmin.exe –o PurgeHistoryListData -siteUrl https://some.site -lastActivityBefore 2022-01-01 -state Completed AND NWAdmin.exe -o PurgeWorkflowData -state All -url https://some.site -lastActivityBeforeUTC 2022-01-01 SQL:USE [My_Nintex_Database_Name_DB1]GODECLARE @return_value intEXEC @return_value = [

I’m using SharePoint 2016 and Nintex on Premises. I would like to force user to enter a different time from the default time value of 12 AM 00 Thanks in advance for all the feedback. 

Hi! Question around Process Models - we are trying to move models from one group to another, however cannot find anywhere to do this - models don’t show up in the admin>manage groups screen and there is nowhere in the summary of the model that allows you to edit the group. Surely it is possible to do this and I’m just not seeing it? I’m very concerned the only way to get this done is to export, delete then reimport the model…. Any help would be appreciated!