Thanks to the user on Nintex Connect named "Dierk", it's quite simple to create a text file in a document library using Nintex Workflow.
The great thing is, you don't just have to create a flat text file, you can also create other files that are... read more
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Nintex Workflow - Creating a Text File in a Document Library
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Nintex Workflow - PowerShell Find All Workflows Part 1
There are times when you need to find all your workflows in your entire farm. Nintex Workflow installs a command line tool named NWAdmin.exe on the server where you initially ran the MSI. It's usually located in c:\Program Files\Nintex\Nintex... read more
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Nintex Workflow - PowerShell Find All Workflows and Export Part 2
This is Part 2 from the previous post on PowerShell Find All Workflows.
We currently have the ability to find all our workflows and parse the information. Next, what I would like to do, is to be able to export each of these workflow to... read more
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Nintex Workflow - PowerShell Find All Workflows and Export or Republish Part 3
This is Part 3 from the previous post on PowerShell Find All Workflows and Export.
We now have the ability to find all our workflows, parse the information and export the workflows to file. Next, what I would like to do, is have the abililty to... read more
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Nintex Workflow - PowerShell Find Workflows that contain a Specific Action Part 4
This is Part 4 from the previous post on PowerShell Find All Workflows and Export or Republish.
We now have the ability to find all our workflows, export them to file and also to republish them.
The next step, is to find which workflows use a... read more
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Nintex Workflow - Scheduling a Workflow at the End of the Month
If you schedule a Nintex Workflow on the last day of the month and set it to run monthly, you'll find that on the following month, it will probably not run on the last day. That is because it currently adds 30 days to current date and that's the... read more
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Nintex Workflow - Savings and Loans
On a recent project I worked on, I came up with a few reusable pieces of Workflow logic that I built into User Defined Actions. The original task was to design workflows whose important components were build around bank interest rates, savings and... read more
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Nintex Workflow - Querying a List with Paging
When you have a large number of items in a list and you need to query them, sometimes querying the whole lot using the Query List action is not the best practice. Depending on the number of items, you could potentially get a timeout on the workflow... read more
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Nintex Workflow - Create Site with a Dynamic Site Template
The Create Site action in Nintex Workflow is a great action and you can create a site based off a site template. The Site Template can be selected at design time. But there are certain situations where you don't know the template at design... read more
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Nintex Workflow - ToDo Task Parallel Processing
In contrast to the Nintex Workflow Request Data action, which only supports getting data from a single user, the Assign a ToDo Task can assign tasks to many users. Often, you may have a single Assign a ToDo Task action, assigning tasks to several... read more
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Nintex Workflow - XSL Transformation
What is XSL?
XSL stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language. It is used to transform an XML document into something else that is more user friendly. A most common practice is transform XML into HTML.
In a Nintex Workflow scenario, there are a... read more
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Nintex Workflow - Safe Looping
Nintex Workflow comes with a concept called Safe Looping, which is enabled by default.
Safe Looping was created to protect the SharePoint environment from a workflow which goes into a infinite loop and inadvertantly affects the SharePoint... read more
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Nintex Workflow - Workflow Status Codes
When a Nintex workflow runs in SharePoint, it can have one of a number of states.
Below is a list of the out-of-the-box SharePoint workflow states.
StatusInternal Status ID
Not Started
0
Failed on Start
1
In... read more
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Nintex Workflow - Custom Permission Levels
The Nintex Workflow Set Item Permissions action allows you to give certain permissions to users for the current item the workflow is running on. The out-of-the-box action usually shows you the normal permissions:
Full... read more
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Nintex Forms - Simple Rule
With the release of build 1.2 of Nintex Forms, we have the introduction of the new Rules Engine.
It adds an extra level of control to your forms that you didn't have before. Well, you sort of did, using Javascript, but honestly, who wants to write... read more
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Nintex Workflow - Parse CSV and Create a List
It seems that getting information out of a CSV file and into SharePoint is a common request. I'm sure there a number of ways to get this done, but this post will be about how to parse CSV files using Nintex Workflow.
We first start off with a... read more
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Nintex Workflow - When Inline Functions don't work
Inline Functions are a great extension to Nintex Workflow. The open up the ability to do some amazing string manipulation. But what happens when they don't work? Why don't they work?
Scenario 1
A text variable (textSample) has the value "Hello... read more
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Nintex Workflow - Creating SQL Server Databases
An interesting topic of conversation came up the other day, which was using Nintex Workflow in a Database creation request list in SharePoint.
The idea was to have a list in SharePoint where a user would create an item by filling in some form. It... read more
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Nintex Workflow - Nintex Workflow History List Management
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If you've been using Nintex Workflow for quite some time, you'll find that your NintexWorkflowHistory list can grow quite rapidly. There are some limitations in SharePoint in regards to performance of lists that grow to be quite large. ... read more
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Nintex Workflow - Purge History List Data for a Site Collection
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Today I talked to a customer (Kevin Dunn at DH Pace, Inc.) who had a need to purge some data from the Nintex Workflow History List. The NWAdmin tool helps with purging data from the Nintex Workflow history lists and there's also a way to do ... read more
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