Community News - February 27, 2017

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Community News - February 27, 2017

We've had a bevy of new blogs and content created in the past week. I'm breaking it down by space below. Have a great week, everyone!

Post of the Month
You HAVE to read this blogpost by super-user and Nintex Connect Blue Ribbon Group member Rhia Wieclawek‌!   It's got it all: a great story, useful information and even her own custom art work. I don't actually have a "post of the month" award, but if I did, this would easily win it. "Yes, I Understand" - A Story of the Importance of Clarity

Getting Started

Virtual Technical Evangelist Aaron Labiosa‌ offers up this little nugget: How to Encode and Decode URL's in Nintex Workflow (all versions) This is for when you need to create a customized URL that's saved and used to re-direct in or out of SharePoint later. Our Blue Ribbon Group member and 2016 community points champ Cassy Freeman‌ offers up this UDA you can use for people in your org who don't have permissions to use looping actions. Users unable to loop - Site Workflow UDA

Nintex Workflow for Office 365

Virtual Technical Evangelist Henning Eiben‌ has completed a three-part series on migrating your tenant to another data center. From tips on which center to select to using Powershell to find our workflows, this is sure to be a helpful series for a long time to come! Thanks, Henning! Migrate your tenant to another data-center (1 of 3)  Migrate your tenant to another data-center (2 of 3) - or where is the workflow app?  Migrate your tenant to another data-center (3 of 3) - where are all the workflows?

Nintex Drawloop Document Generation
Newly-minted Nintex Technical Evangelist Ryan O'Leary‌ starts off the new role with a terrific blog about moving your documents from one org to another without needing to reach for prescription painkillers! Migration Not Migraine

Dev Talk

Nintex Programmer/Writer Matt Briggs‌ has a two-part series in this space on extending the Nintex Workflow Platform is to focus on the smallest unit of processing: the function. Function to Microservice with the Nintex Workflow Platform  Add a Function to Nintex Workflow 2013 as an Inline Function  And SharePoint Admin Richard Ruth‌ has a shortcut to display the assignee on a task without clicking yourself into carpel tunnel syndrome:  Display Workflow History on Task List

Don't forget we only have a couple of days left for February 2017 Mission: Real World Solution 

And here's a re-post of last week's InspireX 2017 community highlights!

InspireX Headlines

People are chatting about the second-annual InspireX conference for customers and Nintex Partners! There's the Official InspireX 2017 Discussion (endorsed by Nintex)‌ in our Events space.  We'll post links to recordings of the sessions as soon as they're available Meanwhile, visit our corporate blog to see the Keynote address and all these informative stories: Aragon Research CEO Jim Lundy spoke about how the race to digital starts with workflow and content automation. Director of Product Management, Luke Buongiorno announced that Nintex Hawkeye is expanding to the entire Nintex Workflow Platform. Nintex VP of Product, Vince Cabral spoke to how to accelerate sales and business results with document generation. IDC VP Maureen Flemming spoke about the next generation of workflow automation. Senior product manager Dan Barker‌ and product manager Renai Bell‌ posted about how Nintex Workflow Cloud is on the rise. Salesforce VP of Strategic Research Peter Coffee talked about engineering the engaged workplace.