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Site Workflow - Getting list Item URL

I have setup a site workflow that sends an email for notifications when a list item is due. I'm trying to include the list item URL as part of the email, but I'm having trouble. In the site workflow, ...

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• Nintex Workflow
• Workflow

Adding a hyperlink to your Nintex Form

You may find while designing your Nintex Form, that you need to include a hyperlink to another location. I'm going to show you how you can add a hyperlink to a label control. It's very similar to addi...

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• Forms
• Nintex Forms
• Workflow

How to execute a SP2013 REST API request with Nintex Workflow

How to execute a SP2013 REST API request with Nintex Workflow​With all the Nintex Workflow actions, we can achieve lots of great workflows. Sometimes, we'd like to build more complicated, technical, r...

Reset button to clear fields on form

Greetings,I am looking for a way to create a custom button that when pressed will clear or reset all (and/or selected) fields in the form.I found a snippet of JavaScript that I hoped would work but it...

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• Workflow

Issue with Reusable template and Request Data action

Hi everyone,I have an issue with a reusable workflow template which I'm hoping someone has seen before.The issue is that when using the workflow template which has agather data task, it uses the defau...

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• Nintex Workflow

Inserting or Updating a Managed Metadata field using Nintex Workflow

I had these notes stored from a couple of years ago - they helped me at the time with a problem I had been banging my head with for ages, but I haven't needed to use them since. Not sure if any use to...

How to fill in a Nintex managed metadata control dynamically?

Hi Nintex Community,I try to automatically fill in a managed metadata control based on user profil properties values and I wonder If there is a way to reach this dynamically with javascript?Thanks.

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• Workflow

How do you validate Managed Metadata Field in a Nintex Form

I have several (many) Nintex Forms with Managed Metadata Fields and I have been unsuccessful validating the fields. Problem is if left alone users can type whatever they want in the field which is not...

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• Forms
• Nintex Forms
• Workflow

Ability to cancel a workflow

Hello Community,I have an interesting request from the end user base.On my SharePoint 2013 on premise install that has Nintex Workflow 2013, we have created a PO system.Here is the question being aske...

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• Nintex Workflow
• Workflow

Conditional startup options not working?

I've created a workflow that I would like to start on a condition that a field has changed. Below is a screenshot of my workflow settings - Seems pretty simple, I'm comparing the previous value of the...

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• Nintex Workflow
• Workflow

Date Comparison in WF

I've run into some trouble trying to compare date fields. I have a date value - dateNow which I calculate using the Calcuate Date control while using the "use date when action is executed" and "includ...

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• Workflow

How to update value in managed metadata column in Nintex Forms 2013

Would like to know how to update the value in a managed metadata column in Nintex Forms 2013. Saw a post with some ideas but no clear explanation on what to do.Thanks.

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• Forms
• Workflow

"Hyperlink text to display" token is being converted to text string of the token

In a notification (both independently, and in a task notification), I'll insert a link with reference token for both the URL and the hyperlink text. If I save the notice & the workflow immediately...

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• Nintex Workflow
• Workflow

Can a managed metadata field be used as a list lookup filter?

Hi all,I'm trying to use the filter functionality of the List Lookup ControlI've created a Nintex form that has:1. Business Unit (Managed Metadata column)2. Objective (Lookup to another list called Ob...

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• Nintex Forms
• Workflow

Save metadata based field value in a SharePoint List

Hi,I need to create a new list item in List B after querying the item from List A. I never saw that working in SP 2013 with Nintex WF and SP OOB Workflows for O365 and 2013. Though it works like a cha...

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• Nintex Workflow
• Workflow

Workflow Item Menu's in SharePoint 2016

Hello,We are in the process of migrating from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2016. One of the workflows we have was started from an Item Menu. I have that enabled in the Workflow Settings on the 2016 e...

Write Managed Metadata Field Values with Nintex Workflow

Quite often we are facing the challange to write ManagedMetadata values to SharePoint Columns with Nintex Workflow.The only way to acheive this I know, is described in the following blog:Setting manag...

Creating An Incremental Number That Avoids Concurrency Problems

This was inspired byPaul Crawford's post (huge thanks to you)Ensure Unique Reference On New Item, which was incredibly enlightening. And while it was almost the perfect solution for what I was looking...

State Machines

Ken Hawkins‌ wanted a specific State Machine solution. For some reason my .jpg file didn't send when I tried to reply through Nintex. So I am creating this post. The question is:Create a state machine...

Previous values in conditional workflow start

What do "Previous Values" mean for a field? is it the value before the item is modified? and should be used in comparing to conditionally start a workflow? Please help. the documentation is not so cle...