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Nintex Workflow - URL Encoding User Defined Action

Posted by Vadim Tabakman Saturday, June 01, 2013 4:46:00 PM Categories: Build String Nintex Nintex Workflow User Defined Actions

After many moons, I finally decided to sit down and automate some work that I regulary did manually. One of the steps required a url to be encoded so I could post it to another site. There's no action in Nintex Workflow to encode a url this way,... read more

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Nintex Workflow - Create Site Collection User Defined Action

Posted by Vadim Tabakman Wednesday, April 03, 2013 2:32:00 PM Categories: Nintex Nintex Workflow SharePoint User Defined Actions

Nintex Workflow comes with a Create Site Collection action. In most scenarios, that would be sufficient. But there are occassions where you need to it be a little more dynamic. In the current action, the Template property of this action is a drop ... read more

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Nintex Workflow - Date User Defined Actions

Posted by Vadim Tabakman Monday, March 25, 2013 8:30:00 AM Categories: Nintex Workflow User Defined Actions

Here are some common User Defined Actions you may come across a need for. I'm keeping this post short and sweet, as it's just to provde the User Defined Action files and they are fairly straight forward. 1. Get First Date of the Next Month 2. Get ... read more

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Nintex Workflow - Get Site Admins

Posted by Vadim Tabakman Wednesday, January 09, 2013 2:50:00 PM Categories: Collection Operation Collection Variable For Each Nintex Workflow Nintex Workflow 2013 User Defined Actions Web Request

There are probably numerous ways of getting a list of Site Admins. I found one way would be to call the SiteData.asmx web service, provided in SharePoint. More specifically, the GetSite web method. When looking at calling a web method in a web... read more

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Nintex Workflow - Safe Looping

Posted by Vadim Tabakman Sunday, November 04, 2012 8:59:00 AM Categories: Change State For Each Iterate Loop Math Calculations Nintex Nintex Workflow Safe Looping User Defined Actions

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 - Create Site with a Dynamic Site Template

Posted by Vadim Tabakman Monday, October 08, 2012 5:25:00 PM Categories: Call Web Service Nintex Nintex Workflow Query XML Templates User Defined Actions Web Request

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 - Querying a List with Paging

Posted by Vadim Tabakman Monday, October 08, 2012 4:51:00 PM Categories: Action Set Build Dynamic String Call Web Service Collection Operation Collection Variable Iterate Nintex Nintex Workflow Query XML Regular Expression Set a Variable User Defined Actions XPath

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 - Savings and Loans

Posted by Vadim Tabakman Sunday, September 30, 2012 8:10:00 PM Categories: Action Set Build Dynamic String Math Calculations Nintex Nintex Workflow Run Parallel Actions Set a Variable User Defined Actions

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 Forms/Workflow - Parsing Repeating Section Data

Posted by Vadim Tabakman Sunday, July 22, 2012 9:26:00 AM Categories: Iterate Math Calculations Nintex Nintex Forms Nintex Workflow Query XML Repeating Section User Defined Actions

There is an interesting control that you can use in Nintex Forms called the Repeating Section. It gives users who are filling in the form, the ability to dynamically add extra entries. One example of this, would be a dynamic Annual Leave request... read more

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Nintex Workflow - Decimal to Binary UDA

Posted by Vadim Tabakman Saturday, March 17, 2012 11:13:00 PM Categories: Math Calculations Nintex Nintex Workflow User Defined Actions

For a mini-project I'm working on, I had a need to convert a number to it's binary format. From those that don't know what that means, it's converting a numerical value into it's 1's and 0's version. eg. 1 = 1 2 = 10 3 = 11 100 = 1100100 Feel ... read more

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