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People picker error after upgrade

We recently upgraded Nintex Forms for SharePoint 2013 and have found suddenly that some forms that have been published and unchanged for ages and broken and won't open in any mode (new, edit or view) ...

• Labels:
• Nintex for SharePoint
• Tips & Tricks

Those pesky item-level permissions

I have come across this issue a number of times in the past and more recently forgot this could be a root cause - so want to share the knowledge and also link my uservoice suggestion to this post... ...

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• Nintex for SharePoint
• Tips & Tricks

Items (Forms and Tasks) not downloading in Nintex Mobile app

The behaviour we are experiencing is as follows: I installed Nintex mobile app and added corporate accounts 1st prod farm – connected OK, no forms displayed Pre prod farm – connected OK, went to form...

• Labels:
• Forms
• Workflow

Numeric value to words

I am working on an employment offer generation letter which takes the monetary value of salary (let's say £20000) and needs to print this in numbers and in words. So for example, "your salary will be ...

• Labels:
• Forms
• Workflow

Execute SQL in a Loop - works first time only

I have a workflow that executes SQL to see if a flag is 1 or 0. If it is 0, it needs to keep checking every 5 minutes until it is 1. I have put this execute SQL action inside a loop.The first time the...

• Labels:
• Workflow

Convert folder to document set (on-prem)

Using Nintex Workflow for on-prem SharePoint 2013 and what I want to do is convert a Folder in a document library to a document set. it would appear that no one else on here has wanted to do that - bu...

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• Nintex Workflow

Workflow status column empty - workflow history status column null

HiHaving weird sporadic issues whereby the workflow has run against an itembut the status column is blank. If I view workflow history against the item I can see one or more Completed workflows that ha...

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• Nintex Workflow
• Workflow

Empty date column with workflow

This works with on-prem Nintex Workflow 2013Problem: Upon archiving a document I use workflow to update the date/time field of when the archive happened. When user wants to un-archive the document, I ...

Redirect on customised document set form

Standard SharePoint document set form, once saved to create a new document set, user is redirected to the newly created document set.Document set form customised with Nintex Form doesn't do this. Inst...

• Labels:
• Forms
• Nintex Forms

Permissions for content type level Nintex Forms?

Hi AllWhat level of permissions do you need to be able to edit a content type level Nintex Form?Site Settings > Site Content Type > Choose Content Type > Edit Form with Nintex Forms in the se...

• Labels:
• Forms
• Nintex Forms

Generating a document from list item - dotx vs docx

We are yet to purchase Document Generation and forever finding ways to produce documents from list items. We also don't have Print to PDF for Nintex Forms as we are on standard license, so it all requ...

We are only human... mistakes happen

So I made a rooky mistake and thought I would share so that you can all see that I am only human too, and sometimes, no matter what experience you have working with certain technologies, oversights ca...

Accessing document set properties from document?

This seems so basic yet I cannot work it out for the life of me! So who better to turn to than my lovely community friends?I have a document library, with document sets, each with documents inside. I ...

• Labels:
• Nintex Workflow
• Workflow

Managed Metadata disappearing on Responsive Forms

Using an ipad to navigate to SharePoint (on-prem)through safari I open my responsive form and add some information. I am able to add information into managed metadata control and the options available...

• Labels:
• Nintex Forms
• Workflow

Line breaks disappear on responsive forms

Using an ipad to navigate to SharePoint through safari I open my responsive form and add some information:A screenshot from the ipad before I saved is here:Notice the line breaks in the multi field ad...

• Labels:
• Nintex Forms
• Workflow

Getting disconnected data from your Nintex Form into your Nintex Workflow

Sometimes we have disconnected data in our form that we do not require in the underlying list, but may need as part of our workflow process.In this example I show you how to utilise the very helpful F...

Find users by status not working properly

We have just set up Lync integration with Nintex Workflow 2013 and so I have been playing with the various options available to me now, all spurred on by ‌ and his awesome blog post ‌. The action "Fin...

• Labels:
• Nintex Workflow
• Workflow

Error associating reusable workflow to content type

Good morning allI have a full working system on our pre-production environment which has:a number of content typesa number of site collection reusable workflow templates (using the above content types...

• Labels:
• Nintex Workflow
• Workflow

Connection - An error occurred

I added a connection to SharePoint online, authenticated and accepted and connection looks fine (as above)However, when I try to query list or add to list using the SharePoint online connector actions...

Print friendly Nintex Forms

Without having Nintex Forms Enterprise and the handy "Print to PDF" functionality, we often spend a lot of time on workarounds for this. My good friend and colleague Gary Powell-Jones‌ came up with th...