I have a sharepoint library where i need to copy the documents with its metadata to FileNet. Initially the requirement was to copy the documents to Filenet based on couple of conditions, so i have developed a workflow using "call a webservice" action and it worked fine. And now the requirement has changed and i need to schedule this workflow every 6 months
Eg: If the "Employee Joining year" = 2018 then the document should be copied to FileNet in 2021 (I.e 3 years)
1. Is this achievable by library workflow or do i need to go with site workflow?
2. How do i calculate the date condition?
3. How to loop multiple documents and copy?
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site workflow is more suitable for this task
see this blog how to approach the task - https://community.nintex.com/t5/Community-Blogs/Site-Workflow-Document-Review-Date-Approaching-Remin...
Emha,
Thanks for the response it really helped me alot. But i am trying to fix couple of issues in my workflow
1. The "Employee Joining year" is a choice datatype in the library and " calculate date" action in the workflow is a "DateTime" (I have created a variable of date and time to store the date) - The workflow is throwing an error as it cannot store the string value in varible which is of "date and time" type
2. I have sub-folders in the document library (which consists of files in it). Does the site workflow runs on the files in a folder?
1. I guess "Employee Joining year" contains numeric options, like 2018, 2019, 2020 ...
then you will need to use cnvert value action to make a DateTime value out of that, eg.
2. that's matter of Query list action configuration - there is a 'Recursive' checkbox, if you set it on the action returns items from all the subfolders
Emha,
Yes, "Employee Joining year" contains numeric options, like 2018, 2019, 2020. I have used the covert value action and confused where exactly i should use my datetime variable that i created in the workflow
input = value, variable or expression which you want to convert to other datatype
store result in = workflow variable where converted value will be stored to
see documentation - https://help.nintex.com/en-US/nintex2013/help/#Workflow/RootCategory/Actions/Nintex.Workflow.Convert...