If you are building Nintex Workflows, and especially if you are deploying them across multiple environments, then you should be considering using Nintex Workflow constants. These constants are remarkably useful to make your Nintex Workflows portable, so that they can easily be deployed into multiple environments without confusion or wasted effort. Any workflow parameters which are specific to the environment in which the workflow is running, or which are likely to be changed by the business at some stage, should be built into your workflows using these constants.
Many of our clients are looking to improve their processes for deploying and managing SharePoint and Nintex based functionality, and the critical aspects tend to fall around governance and repeatability. So in the interests of repeatability, here's a PowerShell cmdlet to create a new Nintex Workflow constant.
With this script you can specify any type of constant, including credentials which are useful for service accounts. You can also define the constant at a scope of Farm, Site Collection or Site.
The cmdlet needs to be run on a server within the SharePoint farm where the constant is to be created. If anyone is aware of alternate methods that can be run remotely, please let me know in the comments!
View and download the cmdlet at my blog: http://sharepointrepairjoint.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/powershell-cmdlet-to-provision-nintex.html
