I have a complicated workflow that I fear may not work at times. So, I need a way to debug issues without affecting the production workflow and list items. I want to do this on the SAME SharePoint 2013 server.

To do that, I'd like to setup a second list that has all the same columns in it (this is easy to do by saving List A as a template). Create my new List B and then create / import my complicated workflow into List B. So I would be able to edit / debug the workflow in List B without affecting List A's production version.

I looked at the exported .nwf file for my workflow from List A and it has direct references to List A's name, List ID guid as well as a Workflow ID guid and possibly other things. I fear these would break and crash if I tried to import that .nwf file as a new workflow into List B. But maybe not, perhaps I'm being over cautious?

I did discover that creating List B based off of List A's template brought over my Workflow, it must have been included in the list template definition. So I'm able to run the workflow on items in List B. That's great, but if I try to "manage workflows" in List B, the workflow does not appear for me to edit. So it's useless unless I can change the workflow in List B.

So, is there a way for me to do this? Using a second SharePoint 2013 test server would simplify some things but complicate others, so I'd like to stick with the same production server.  Thank you!

When you click on an instance of a running workflow, is there a way for the SharePoint admin to reassign a task to another user? I know how I can do this by going into the SharePoint Workflow Tasks list and reassign it there; but I'm wondering if Nintex provides a way to do it from within the context of my running workflow itself. Something like right clicking on a yellow paused task icon and getting a popup that says "Reassign Task", etc. Anything?

I do not want to rely about Reminders and Escalation actions in the item task designer. Those are great and I do utilize them, but I want a flexible way to reassign a task on demand to anyone I need. 

Thanks! 

I need to delete list items after a configurable time after completion of its corresponding workflow. 

What i do now:
I run a scheduled workflow that checks the workflow completion date of all list items with completed workflows.
Then it deletes the old list items
What i get then is entries in the 'workflows I've started' list marked as 'Item Not Found'.

Is there any way to delete a list item with its workflow history, so the deleted items do not show up in the 'workflows I've started' list?
 

Hi - we have created a simple 'approval' workflow that has 2 decision points. We are using a flexi task to obtain user responses. The first fexi task is assigned to a single person with 3 possible outcomes. Once the workflow is initiated, the approver receives the email notification and they are able to respond via the SharePoint UI. However, the workflow then stalls and does not progress any further. Workflow status is 'In progress', the Workflow taks are being created, but status is not started. Looking at the logs, there are entries desribing a deadlock on resources.

We have other workflows running in our SharePoint deployment that work fine - it it just this specfic action that is failing to work. Any ideas?

Many thanks, Chris

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Hi All,

So I am attempting to create a workflow that takes the date value from a list and copies that to a separate calendar list so that it will appear as an event on the calendar. When I try to run it, I get an error  "The workflow could not copy the item. Make sure the source and destination lists have the same columns and column settings." and "The workflow operation failed because the workflow lookup found no matching item." I believe I may have it set up incorrectly. I created a workflow in the list that has the following settings as a "Copy item" action (http://i.imgur.com/2SFSjGA.png), I was confused as to what to put under "Where", what should that be? Then I indicated for it to copy to my calendar list. I feel like I'm approaching this completely incorrectly. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks 

Hi,

I am not able to publish my nintex workflow.Its Showing error "server is unable to respond your request.Failed to publish workflow.<error><compile error Line ="18" Column="2" Text="Createinstance failed for type 'Nintex.Workflow.Activities.reportingHeaderActivity' Loading this assembly would produce a different grant set from other istnaces" and so on.....

Every time I have to activate/deactivate the Nintex Workflow feature then its starts working.I also checked my server disk space and enough space is there.

Can any one give perfect soultion for resolving the issue.

Is there any specific configuration is required for fix the issue.Please help me out.

Thanks in Advance.

hi,

i'm currently configuring a DEV server for our Nintex workflow. i already installed the SQL Server 2008 application to my server and also installed the Nintex 2007 workflow. i'm now at the process of creating a database for my Nintex workflow. however i keep on receiving error: 25 and stating that

"A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 25 - Connection string is not valid)"

can anyone help me on this?

 thanks in advance 

I have a people picker field that can contain one or more individuals, I need to mail these people, but simply adding the field in the To: of the email action fails if more than one person is selected in the people picker. ( should you be able to mail all by  simply adding the source field? )

So I thought I'd for-each the people in the people picker and and email each individually.

The string returned for multiple people is like this :  3;#Russell Hancock;#38;#Anthony Whittaker

in the Regular Expression action I entered Split on  (\;\#)?\d{1,5}\;\#

This appeared to work using this online tool http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ 

But in Nintex get an array of :   <blank> Russell Hancock ;# Anthony Whitaker

Any ideas where I'm going wrong?!

Cheers

Russ 

Hi Support,

I would like to have get some information for the below query:

• I want to create a Site workflow using Nintex Workflow 2013
• For this site workflow I want to use InfoPath 2013 as a start form
• I have activated "Nintex Workflow 2013 InfoPath Forms" features in the site collection
• In the Nintex designer, I navigate to workflow setting -> Edit Start Forms -> Edit Start Form with Microsoft InfoPath 2013
• When I do that, Microsoft InfoPath 2013 designer opens
• However, I cannot see any default forms opened in the designer. Its the blank designer which gets opened.

I have referred even the below link but I am not able to find the optins Publish back to nintex (http://portal.bentonville.k12.ar.us/_layouts/help.aspx?AssetKey=%2Fsites%2FHelp%2FLists%2FProduct%20Help%2FNintexWorkflow.1033%2FNintex.Workflow.Workflow.Interaction.with.SharePoint%2FNintex.Workflow.InfoPathIntegration.htm%3Bcf530d00-a583-4fab-9f04-3eb5edcc1313%3B)

Can you please help me in knowing how can I associate a InfoPath 2013 form with Nintex. This would really help me a lot :-)

Thanks,

Nidish

Error publishing workflkow - Server was unable to process request. ---> Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Office.InfoPath, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

 I have an approval workflow which has been running without errors for the last 2 months.. Our environment consists of SharePoint 2010 with Nintext workflow 2010.

 I updated Nintex workflow this week to the latest version and added a Request Review task to this workflow. I edited the task form from within the workflow task "Configure Action" form only yesterday and used it without errors.

This morning during a demo I received the error below when I clicked to complete the review task

We have a site workflow planned to be executed once a week. Since we installed a new version of Nintex 2.0.1.8 it stopped working. The workflow still works when we start it manually. I get the following message from Nintex:

I have a InfoPath form with a radio button that I need to reset during the course of the workflow. 

I'm trying to use the Set field value action to set the field back to unselected but it's not working even though the workflow processes all "green".  Is there a way to do this?  I'm currently setting it to blank but does it need to be NULL or something else?

We have seen this issue on both our Dev and Prod farms where trying to use the "Check list item permissions" condition will not stay saved.

In other words, we create a Run If action, a Set a condition action, whatever. Then we set the action to run as the workflow owner, and try to use the "Check list item permissions" condition to see if the person in the item's Modified By column has Full Control permissions.

 All seems to go well, we save our configuration. Then after closing the action, and re-opening it the previous settings we made are gone. When we try to publish the workflow, Nintex complains about that we didn't configure that action.

Any idea why this is happening?

I am trying to create an email notification from Nintex that will look exactly like the SharePoint alerts.

 I am almost done with the email. The only part I am stuck at is attachments.

 My approach is as follows:

 Call Lists Web service and use the method GetAttachmentCollection, which works fine and I get the attachment URLs in a text variable.

 But now the problem is how would I display the attachments in the following format:

Attachment 1: Hyperlink with attachment name

Attachment 2:  Hyperlink with attachment name

.......

 Attachment n: Hyperlink with attachment name 

 Is there any way to achieve this? Or is there any alternate approach? 

This may be very basic, but I am new to Nintex. I have a field where a user selects their initials when they start a task. When they are done the task, they change they select the new value that the task goes to. At this point, if they forget to ermove their initials, I want the action to remove it.

How would I do this?

Thank you

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I have 2 approval workflows on a list - a main workflow that is started manually and an update workflow that is started on item update. This is to accomplish a parallel approval process i.e., the site owner/administrator will initially enter the list of approvers and start the main workflow. An approval task should be created for all of them. While that is in progress, the owner can come in and add more approvers or remove existing approvers at which time the update workflow would run. If all the main workflow approvals are complete before the update workflow, it will sit around and wait for the update workflow to complete. I am achieving this synchronization by having both the workflows update a common list field (called 'Number Approved') and having the main workflow 'Wait for Item Update' of this field.

Now, here is the problem. The main workflow waits for item update for a few minutes and then suddenly (while the update workflow is still waiting for approvals) comes out of it and the workflow errors out. I tried inserting a delay (pause) but still the same effect. I do not see any specific error information related to this in ULS logs. However, I do see a couple of Workflow Infrastructure errors and the dreaded 'Unable to locate the xml definition for CType with SPContentTypeId xxxx' message right before them.  Here is an excerpt from the log exactly at the time of the workflow error:

07/18/2013 15:40:44.45 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation Monitoring nasq Medium Entering monitored scope (Timer Job job-workflow) b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:44.47 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation Monitoring nasq Medium Entering monitored scope (WorkflowTelemetryScope) b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:44.63 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation Monitoring b4ly High Leaving Monitored Scope (EnsureListItemsData). Execution Time=49.1149014749081 b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:44.73 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation Monitoring b4ly High Leaving Monitored Scope (EnsureListItemsData#1). Execution Time=7.10704852152997 b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:44.80 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation General 8e2s Medium Unknown SPRequest error occurred. More information: 0x8000ffff b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:44.80 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation General 72k4 Medium <nativehr>0x8000ffff</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:44.80 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation General 8kh7 High <nativehr>0x8000ffff</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:44.80 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation General 7fad Medium Unable to locate the xml-definition for CType with SPContentTypeId'0x01080100E646D059FB084DDF989F4E3CCF2A3A42', exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8000FFFF): <nativehr>0x8000ffff</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.GetGlobalContentTypeXml(String bstrUrl, Int32 type, UInt32 lcid, Object varIdBytes)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.GetGlobalContentTypeXml(String bstrUrl, Int32 type, UInt32 lcid, Object varIdBytes)     --- End of inner exception stack trace ---     at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPGlobal.HandleComException(COMException comEx)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.GetGlobalContentTypeXml(String bstrUrl, Int32 type, UInt32 lcid, Object varIdBytes)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPContentTypeCollection.FillCollection(SPRequest req, SqlDataReader rdr, Boolean openWeb) b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:44.82 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation Monitoring b4ly High Leaving Monitored Scope (Event Receiver (Nintex.Workflow, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=913f6bae0ca5ae12, Nintex.Workflow.ConditionalWorkflowStartReceiver)). Execution Time=121.27239635205 b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:44.88 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation Workflow Infrastructure 88xr Unexpected WinWF Internal Error, terminating workflow Id# 149883af-c269-4945-a413-ce23dc958bf3 b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:44.88 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation Workflow Infrastructure 98d4 Unexpected System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'System.Double' to type 'System.String'.     at Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowActions.CoerceStringActivity.SetReturnValue(Object obj)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowActions.CoerceActivity.Coerce()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowActions.CoerceActivity.Execute(ActivityExecutionContext provider)     at System.Workflow.ComponentModel.ActivityExecutor`1.Execute(T activity, ActivityExecutionContext executionContext)     at System.Workflow.ComponentModel.ActivityExecutor`1.Execute(Activity activity, ActivityExecutionContext executionContext)     at System.Workflow.ComponentModel.ActivityExecutorOperation.Run(IWorkflowCoreRuntime workflowCoreRuntime)     at System.Workflow.Runtime.Scheduler.Run() b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:44.96 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation Monitoring b4ly High Leaving Monitored Scope (EnsureListItemsData#1). Execution Time=7.54900413320687 b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:45.02 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation General 8e2s Medium Unknown SPRequest error occurred. More information: 0x8000ffff b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:45.02 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation General 72k4 Medium <nativehr>0x8000ffff</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:45.02 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation General 8kh7 High <nativehr>0x8000ffff</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:45.02 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation General 7fad Medium Unable to locate the xml-definition for CType with SPContentTypeId'0x01080100E646D059FB084DDF989F4E3CCF2A3A42', exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8000FFFF): <nativehr>0x8000ffff</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.GetGlobalContentTypeXml(String bstrUrl, Int32 type, UInt32 lcid, Object varIdBytes)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.GetGlobalContentTypeXml(String bstrUrl, Int32 type, UInt32 lcid, Object varIdBytes)     --- End of inner exception stack trace ---     at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPGlobal.HandleComException(COMException comEx)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.GetGlobalContentTypeXml(String bstrUrl, Int32 type, UInt32 lcid, Object varIdBytes)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPContentTypeCollection.FillCollection(SPRequest req, SqlDataReader rdr, Boolean openWeb) b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:45.04 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation Monitoring b4ly High Leaving Monitored Scope (Event Receiver (Nintex.Workflow, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=913f6bae0ca5ae12, Nintex.Workflow.ConditionalWorkflowStartReceiver)#1). Execution Time=107.825715279456 b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:45.06 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation Monitoring b4ly High Leaving Monitored Scope (FireWorkflowCompletedEvent). Execution Time=18.865805570261 b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705
07/18/2013 15:40:45.48 OWSTIMER.EXE (0x13F0) 0x0838 SharePoint Foundation Monitoring b4ly Medium Leaving Monitored Scope (Timer Job job-workflow). Execution Time=1023.42699980025 b9ff6d5b-824f-4fd2-9d20-675339aa4705

I understand this may not be a Nintex error and though it causes a Nintex action and workflow to error, the underlying cause could be something else. But any help or insight would be appreciated.