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CodiKajiNintex Employee
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Product Updates: SharePoint Online Integration and K2

You may start to see a notice when accessing your K2 for SharePoint integration in a SharePoint Online list or library. This notice states that SharePoint add-ins will be retired for SharePoint in Microsoft 365 in April 2026. Rest assured, our developers are hard at work and have already made strides in keeping your SharePoint Online integration working with your Nintex Automation (fka K2 Five) and K2 Cloud environments.With the 5.7 release earlier this year, new installs that integrate with SharePoint Online will use the new SharePoint Framework (SPFx) integration path. This includes a new way to manage your SharePoint Online integration in the Management site, and has updated the integration points per Microsoft’s guidance. What about all our existing SharePoint integrations that use the add-in?The team is currently working on a migration tool, to help you move your existing add-in based integrations for forms and workflows to the new SPFx model. This will allow customers who have pr

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CodiKajiNintex Employee
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.NET Framework 3.5 and Nintex Automation/K2 Five

Several questions have come in recently from customers asking about plans to remove the dependency on Microsoft’s .NET Framework 3.5 version, which will reach end of life in 2029.We are aware of the upcoming deprecation, and keep a close eye on all of our technology dependencies to ensure we stay on current, supported versions to help our customers remain secure and stable.  We are working to address this dependency, and it’s not a simple upgrade for the K2 server and sites. Where we can, in some of the supporting micro services, we’ve already updated our code to depend on .Net Core versions. I don’t have a firm release date for completely removing our dependency on .NET Framework 3.5, but when past APIs have reached EOL (for example, the Microsoft AAD API to the new Microsoft Graph API), we addressed it in all supported versions with plenty of time for customers to upgrade. And we are committed to doing that for .NET Framework 3.5’s end of life in 2029. As we have more information, I

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3 months ago
MillaZ
MillaZCommunity Manager
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User Spotlight: Sam Scheer

In this month’s user spotlight blog, we’re talking to Sam Scheer, Customer Enablement Manager here at Nintex.Username: @Nintex_Sam Q. What is your current role, how long have you worked at Nintex, and your career background?Hello! I’m Sam, and I’m the Manager of Customer Enablement and responsible for Nintex Community, the Nintex How-to Center, and Nintex University. I’ve been with Nintex for two and a half years and love every minute. As a life-long technical communicator, I've worked in many industries, from aviation, utilities, consumer electronics, unmanned aircraft, satellites, and software. I’m also a United States Navy veteran, where I worked on the radar systems for the F/A-18 fighter. My top priority is enabling our customers to succeed with the Nintex Process Platform. Q. Which Nintex Product are you most passionate about and why?It’s a tie between Nintex Automation Cloud and Nintex Process Manager. I love Nintex Automation Cloud because it’s easy to create forms and workflow

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AndyHayesNintex Employee
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NWC Toolkit

This xtension will add additional useful functions/functionality and connectors to NWC.I will continue to update this xtension over time, so feel free to bookmark this blog to keep an eye out for new actions and connectors. Included in this version of the toolkit is: Decode a Base64 File Encode a Base64 File Working Days Calculation Encode a Base64 String Decode a Base64 String Format DateTime Generate GUID Postgresql Insert Postgresql List Table Add Padding to String Convert String to Lowercase Convert String to Proper Convert String to Uppercase This function is hosted on Nintex’s Marketing Azure host and is free for anyone to use. If you want to host the function in your own azure function or have any suggestions for additional actions, please email andy.hayes@nintex.com  NWC Tools  This xtension is available for download from the Nintex Solution Gallery.Connectors - Toolkit for NWC. (nintex.com) Working Days Simple Calculation Calculate the working dates between two days. Calculati

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Dan_Stoll
3 months ago
MillaZ
MillaZCommunity Manager
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User Spotlight: Simon Muntz

In this month’s user spotlight blog, we’re talking to Simon Muntz, a Senior Technical Content Specialist on the Customer Enablement Team here at Nintex. Q. What is your current role, and how long have you been with Nintex?I have been with Nintex for nine years and seven months.  My current position is a Senior Technical Content Specialist on the Customer Enablement team, which I have been doing for around a year and four months.  Before that, I was a Senior Engineer in Nintex Support. I have been in IT for about 16 years but have always been interested in computers. Q. Which Nintex Product are you most passionate about and why? I have always liked Nintex’s workflow products, so I like the newest offering of Nintex Automation Cloud the most. Its ability to interact with many applications makes it the Swiss Army knife of the automation world.  Q. What do you enjoy most about answering Community questions?I enjoyed helping Nintex customers while in support, so the community is just an ext

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5 months ago
MillaZ
MillaZCommunity Manager
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User Spotlight: Brandi Woodson

In this month’s user spotlight blog, we’re talking to Brandi Woodson, an IT Systems SharePoint Administrator at Kellogg Brown and Root.Q. What is your current role, and your career background?I’m an IT Systems SharePoint Administrator who specializes in Business Process Automation. My career background is actually in pricing and contracts – but my IT career has just begun! I have always found myself learning more and more about how applications communicate with one another throughout my journey. I have had great mentors and trainers along my journey who were always willing to share and teach me functions that were not necessarily in my job description. Through the years I found myself always pushing my leadership to consider new ideas or processes that would make our team more sufficient and productive. I guess you can say I have always been the “innovator” in my former positions and always wanted to find a solution to any problem that presented itself!   Q. Which Nintex Product are yo

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MillaZ
5 months ago
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aymanelhattab
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Resetting Repeating Sections

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you needed to reset a Nintex Forms Repeating Section? I'm sure you've tried to reset different columns from within your Nintex Workflows and It's actually easy to reset any type of fields like Yes/No, Single Line of Text, etc.. But what about the Repeating Sections? First of all, why would you need to do so?In my case, I had two lists; one for the orders and the other is for the order details. I've created a 1:Many relationship between both lists.  In my case, I wanted to use a Repeating Section only as a way for inputting data into another list (a Nintex Workflow on the parent list is being used here to parse the repeating section and create the child items in the second list.). I wanted this Repeating Section to always be empty and ready for data input. Unfortunately, this was not straightforward due to the fact that the Repeating Section data is always stored as XML either in a list column if the repeating section is connected or in

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CodiKajiNintex Employee
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Performance Enhancements: More than just PM buzzwords

When you read release notes of any product or app update, you’ll usually see the generic category of “performance enhancements” - More speed. Like Ricky Bobby, “I wanna go fast,” right? But that phrase has gotten a bad reputation as just buzzwords. For a while now, you’ve heard from me about some tech debt projects that are updating some pretty core frameworks that are used in the Nintex K2 designers. And with those projects, I always promise that we’ll have increased stability and performance. But words are words, right? Seeing is believing. On the left, the updated framework. On the right, what you have today in Nintex K2 Five/Nintex Automation and Nintex K2 Cloud. On your mark, get set, go!Coming to a release next year. Get ready to go faster.

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pesikwaneNovice
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Using a Component workflow to track the history of an item - Office 365

This is a short workaround i've put together on how you can use a component workflow within Office 365 to capture workflow information and append it to a history list on the item that your workflow is running on. Check out the video below on how it works:   How to use this: 1. Download the component workflow i've built2. Create a column called "Workflow History" on the document or list you'd like to log3. Import the workflow as a site workflow4. Update it to connect to your list and update the "Workflow History" column you created.5. Update your list/library workflow to call this component workflow.  Enjoy!!  

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BazatNintexNintex Employee
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Nintex Releases AI-Powered Form Translator to Accelerate Form Design in Other Languages

Nintex is thrilled to announce the AI Form Translator, part of the Nintex Forms capabilities of Nintex Automation Cloud. This new capability helps forms designers leverage Generative AI to automatically translate forms into multiple languages on the fly.This capability follows on the heels of the recently released AI Form Generator feature, adding real-time translation capability to this automatic form generator.Once forms designers enter plain language text to specify the form they want, the AI Form Generator goes to work to create the form automatically. The new AI Form Translator then translates the form in real time in 10+ languages (111 total languages including RTL are supported), with language determined based on browser settings, presets, or user selection.You can use the AI Form Translator with AI-generated forms, forms generated by the Nintex PDF Converter, or forms created manually in the designer. The choice is yours.Translating forms into the different languages of your us

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fhunth
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Inline versus runtime functions

Sometimes we remember about inline functions and runtime and use them on different parts of the design of our Nintex Forms, but we don't get the expected result by us, and sometimes it's simply because we haven't considered when they are executed. The difference is that Inline functions are run when the form is loaded., although the Runtime Functions will run while you have the form open, changing a control 's value, so filling a text field will cause the Runtime function to evaluate again. This is a simple reminder for me and you.

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MillaZ
MillaZCommunity Manager
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User Spotlight: Eric Rhodes

In this month’s user spotlight blog, we’re talking to Eric Rhodes, a Senior Developer for Fulton County Schools in Atlanta, Georgia.Q. What is your current role, and some career background?My current position is a Senior Developer for Fulton County Schools in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s hard for me to believe, but I have now been in the Information Technology field for 30 years as of October 2023. My first job out of college was COBOL programming. During the course of my career, I have been a support technician, network administrator, webmaster, developer, consultant, and trainer.I have been building applications using the Nintex Process Platform since 2009 when I started using Nintex Workflow 2007. I have been fortunate in my career to work for Nintex customers, partners, and Nintex directly, which has given me a unique perspective and many opportunities to help others with my Nintex experience.Q. Which Nintex Product are you most passionate about and why?I have been using Nintex Automatio

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BazatNintexNintex Employee
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Nintex Releases AI-Powered Form Generator to Accelerate Form DesignNews

Nintex is thrilled to announce the AI Form Generator, part of the Nintex Forms capabilities of Nintex Automation Cloud. This new capability helps forms designers leverage Generative AI to automatically generate forms from plain language written input. Simply type what you want in your form, and the Nintex Forms Designer does the rest! Create user-friendly forms more efficiently and with less manual effort.  Avoid time-consuming efforts to build complex forms structures and logic.  Accelerate your project’s time to value for customer- and employee-facing forms used in automated workflows.  This exciting new capability provides AI-powered suggestions and guidance for form structure, fields, and conditional logic. It supports all form field types including text inputs, dropdowns, checkboxes, etc. Forms designers can create forms in just minutes for any use case, such as: Event Registration Form: Seamlessly craft a comprehensive event registration form with fields for attendee informat

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Chris_Ben
Chris_BenContributor
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Using AI to generate your forms

I’m a big fan of applying technology where it makes sense.  There’s massive interest in Chat GPT since it was released and people (myself included) have had a great time asking it questions.  I have also seen some early adopters try to shoehorn it into their products but all they’re doing is putting their product UI over the Generative AI (GAI) engines.  That’s not a very useful application of the technology. Nintex takes a balanced approach to AI.  We need to apply it where it makes sense and we also need to apply it responsibly.  One example where GAI makes a significant difference to building applications on the Nintex platform is the newly released AI forms builder. Prior to the AI forms builder, our options to build forms were to think about the fields that need to be on a form and then use the drag and drop interface to add and configure them.  It’s fast and efficient.  If you have existing forms, you can use our PDF import function.  You save a picture of your existing forms in

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BazatNintexNintex Employee
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Nintex Asia Pacific customers now have access to expanded cloud options

New Singapore data center now available for flagship Nintex Automation Cloud offering.Nintex continues to invest in additional data centers around the world to ensure customers have secure, compliant, and performant access to all our cloud-based offerings. In response to continued customer demand for cloud-based workflows in the Asia Pacific region, today Nintex is proud to announce it has activated a new data center in Singapore for the company’s flagship Nintex Automation Cloud product. New customers will now have immediate access to this new data center, powered by Microsoft Azure, in addition to existing data centers in Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK, and the U.S.Customers in Singapore or neighboring countries can now adopt Nintex’s market-leading automation capabilities with complete confidence that data privacy, sovereignty, and regional residency concerns and requirements are met, along with high availability and resiliency.A Singaporean data center makes it even easier for

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BazatNintexNintex Employee
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Nintex Process Platform Update Webinar available on-demand!

Get product strategy and roadmap insights, learn what's new, and see in-depth demos.Nintex customers and partners, I’m thrilled to announce our on-demand Process Platform update webinar!Nintex has embarked on a new path forward to help organizations quickly and easily define, manage and automate business processes with AI-based, low-code/no-code tools.In this webinar, you’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at our product vision and plans to deliver the most complete, connected and convenient process platform in the industry.Watch this webinar and:Get executive insight into Nintex’s new ‘complete, connected, convenient’ product vision and strategy. Learn more about recently released product capabilities including process modelling; customized, AI-powered digital forms; and further simplified installation, upgrades, authentication, configuration, and usage. See in-depth product demonstrations of exciting capabilities coming soon, including BPMN process modelling and Gen-AI forms generation.

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skratsch
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Inactivating Items in a List Lookup Dropdown

Note: I found an issue where setting up the inactive filtering on the form in the List Lookup control caused the control to break in Nintex Mobile. I've updated the steps so the filtering is now done on the list instead of on the form. I've been working on a form that contains a dropdown list populated by a lookup list and requires the ability to inactivate items in the lookup list. When an item in the lookup list is inactivated it should no longer be available to select on a new form but still needs to be displayed on previous forms where that value was selected so that historical data is preserved. I looked through the Nintex Community to find a way of doing this but didn't come across anything. Now that I've completed my solution I thought I would share it in case others are looking for ideas on how to accomplish this. In my example I will use the scenario of a mobile device request form. The list of mobile devices that can be ordered through our Service Desk is updated regularly. W

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jesse_mchargue
jesse_mchargueNintex Employee
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Queries, and Collections, and Loops, Oh My!

Hello again!I wanted to take some time and go over the Query List action as there has been a rise in questions from the community on how to leverage it. Not only the query, but what to do with the data after we query it. Let's dive right in.  Query List ActionThe action is straightforward enough; query a list for specific results. An example could be all items where [Created] = {varDate} or [ID] = {varLookupID} or even just return all items (I would advise against this if possible). But how do we store the resulting data? What about if we get multiple results? If you know that the query is going to return only one item every time, then a normal variable (based on the data type it will be storing) will suffice. Otherwise, you are going to want to store your results in a Collection variable for every piece of data you want to do something with. So, if you are querying a list with 10 columns, and you only need 4 of them (to send a notification), you will need to create 4 collection variab

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BazatNintexNintex Employee
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DocuSign now available within DocGen for Salesforce Lightning experience

In a continued effort to invest in feature parity between our DocGen for Salesforce Classic and Lightning designers, Nintex is pleased to announce that DocuSign eSignature capabilities are now available as a delivery option within the Nintex DocGen for Salesforce Lightning designer experience. This is now available in addition to our legacy DocuSign integration for the Salesforce Classic interface.With DocuSign now available within DocGen for Salesforce Lightning, DocGen customers using the Salesforce Lightning environment can now seamlessly use DocuSign for e-signing of the documents they generate with Nintex, providing an easy, efficient document execution experience for everyone involved in a document-centric transaction.This new integration leverages the DocuSign App Launcher Salesforce app, and like our legacy DocuSign delivery option, this integration allows the designer to complete all fields needed for the DocuSign envelope, right from within DocGen. Nintex DocGen then dynamica

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CodiKajiNintex Employee
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Now Available: Nintex Automation (5.7) (formerly known as K2 Five)

By now, you’ve heard that we’re changing the names of several Nintex products, including Nintex Automation (formerly known as K2 Five). The name and colors may change, but the features you know and love are still there, and some new things are now available! Available now to download on Nintex Customer Central (be sure to filter for “Nintex Automation” in the products drop-down menu), the latest version includes some great new features, including:Style Profile: preview form. Select your own form to use as the preview form in the Style Profile Designer, and now you can see the impact of your chosen colors and linked CSS/JS files on your own form, without having to have multiple tabs open or check-in your form or style profile. Style aware controls. Building on the Style Profile color variables, now the ratings control, radio buttons and checkboxes, and toolbar buttons respond to the color variables to automatically change color and match your branding profile. Nintex Automation product

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7 months ago
SimonMuntz
SimonMuntzCommunity Manager
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Choice Single control - Data Source Variable usage

The choice Single control now has an Insert tab for the choice options in the control’s configuration. This allows for a Data Source Variable to be selected.Inserting a flattened collection from a data source into this field gives you a dynamically generated list of choices.An array of objects can also be selected. When an object is select, two new fields will appear in the control’s configuration. The fields are “Option label” and “Option value”.Option label will display the text for the choices. Option value is the value that can be used elsewhere in the form or passed to the workflow.  For example, the option label may show a list of states of the United States of America. When the user selects California the Option value can store the value Sacramento which is the capital city.  This value is obtained from the Data Source Variable. For more information please see the Nintex Automation Cloud help files.https://help.nintex.com/en-US/nwc/Content/Designer/FormControls/ChoiceSingle.htm 

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Chris_Ben
Chris_BenContributor
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Providing your Choice Single Control with dynamic options

Have you ever wanted to make the options displayed in a radio button control (single choice control) dynamic?  For example, we have a menu that changes daily across all three meal types (breakfast, lunch and dinner).  Here’s an example shown in a SharePoint list for today’s menu: In the past, if you wanted to present these dynamically, you’d have to create 3 choice controls (one each for breakfast, lunch and dinner) and hide the ones that weren’t needed via a rule.  Then when the user has made their selection, you also have to know to retrieve the value from the meal type that was selected.  All off this is pretty straightforward but at Nintex, we’re not satisfied with straightfoward - we want it to be fast and easy. So you might have seen @SimonMuntz’s recent post on using data source variables with the single choice control.  That’ s exactly what you’d use for this scenario. First, you have to set up your data source variable.  Here’s the help topic on doing this if you need some ass

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7 months ago
dchersels
dcherselsNintex Employee
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Configure a K2 Process to Wait for Outside Events – Part 2

IntroductionThis is a follow-up to the post where I describe how we configure and complete asynchronous server events. I showed you how one can complete the server event using a REST call, but sometimes a REST call is not needed or possible. In this post I will extend the mechanism to make use of SmartObjects on a SmartForm. Use CaseFor this scenario, I am a technician, repairing customer machines on-site and I may not always have all the replacement parts on hand. When that happens, I can submit an order to the supplier which will deliver the part directly at the installation site. But, as we all know, deliveries are unpredictable and I won’t always be able to determine the actual delivery date and time.To handle the variability, K2 will start a process when I submit the order, generate a QR code as part of the weigh bill and then wait for the next step. When the part is delivered, the receiving department will scan the QR code, which in turn will proceed to the next step where I will

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leighburkeNintex Employee
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Important Nintex for SharePoint 2007 and 2010 Announcement

We are announcing the end of life for Nintex for SharePoint 2007 and 2010, which will take effect on September 1, 2023. In line with the Nintex Subscription Support Policy, we will offer support for these versions for a period of 24 months beyond this date. This support will consist of troubleshooting issues, identifying workarounds, and resolving critical security concerns. We are aware that most customers have already moved away from these products as they are no longer supported by Microsoft. However, if you haven't made the transition yet, Nintex provides various migration paths to simplify the process as much as possible.  Many Nintex customers are taking this opportunity to modernize and transition to the cloud, utilizing our upgrade tools, services, and support to migrate to Nintex Automation Cloud. For additional information or to begin the process, please refer to our Modernization forum. Alternatively, for customers who prefer to continue with SharePoint On-Premises, more mig

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AndyHayesNintex Employee
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Adding charts to Nintex NAC Forms

Note: Nintex Workflow Cloud (NWC) is now called Nintex Automation Cloud (NAC) With the latest release of NAC, we now can modify and add custom CSS to any NAC form. Which not only enables granular control with the look and feel, but now you also have the ability to display information in a more graphical way…..like using workflow data in a bar or pie chart.   In the above screenshot, I have added custom CSS to each of the inputs, a background image (a great way to make your forms pop) and I’ve converted some html in a label to a CSS based chart. Lets look at how I put together the bar chart. First thing we need to do, is drag and drop a label control on the form and add some HTML to a label (using the HTML option). Example below:   Use the following HTML to follow the example: <p>Crystal Palace</p><div class="container">  <div class="goals palace">9</div></div> <p>Liverpool</p><div class="container">  <div class="goals liverpool"&

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