Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
Recently got these timeout-related errors in Nintex workflow 2007 with MOSS 2007 environment: “Failed to report workflow progress. Failed to open a connection to a Nintex Workflow content database” “Failed to Start Workflow. Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding” Error:…
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Today, created a Nintex workflow to send out E-mail notification to SharePoint groups. Start-up option for the workflow was: “Start when Items are created”, but in SharePoint 2007 incoming email didn’t trigger the workflow on new item creation. Root cause: Incoming E-mail attachments areuploaded to SharePoint libraries using “System Account” (If E-mail…
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Problem: Nintex Workflow tasks displays : * Item Not found error! Root Cause: Workflows are initiated and items in which workflows ran, are deleted by the end-user. When I tried terminating the workflows, it gave “Server was unable to process the request –> Values does not fall within the expected range.” error…
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Nintex Workflow was giving an error, when trying to publish: “There was an error installing the content type required for the Flexi-Task action. Please arrange for an Administrator to run the following command on the server: stsadm.exe -o installfeature -n nintexworkflowcontenttypeupgrade For more information please contact support@nintex.com“ I already ran that command:…
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Requirement: We have three Nintex workflows. These three workflows to be deployed to all document libraries of a sub-site. Nintex workflows provides web services to deploy Nintex workflow to multiple lists and libraries, which is explained in one of the Nintex whitepapers: How to create a workflow that automatically deploys other workflows?,…
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Requirement is: To start a specific Workflow on All documents in a document library. Solution: let’s use PowerShell to Start workflow Programmatically on all Items in a Document Library! After making sure, “Manual start” is enabled for the workflow. PowerShell script to start SharePoint workflow Using this method, We can Start/Stop/Cancel even…
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Found a Nintex scheduled workflow runs twice in an Environment where it was running MOSS 2007 SP3 with Nintex Enterprise version. Verified only one instance of Nintex Workflow Scheduler job is listed. Fix: To resolve this you’ll need to uninstall and reinstall the timer job via nwadmin command-line utility and associate it…
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Problem:Workflow actions are missing in Nintex workflow designer 2010. Troubleshooting: Tried de-activating and re-activating the Nintex Workflow 2010 feature at site collection and site level. Tried adding user to Full permission/Tried Re-adding the user to the site. Solution: Follow these steps to get workflow actions in Nintex workflow designer:Â Open SharePoint Central…
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I have got a Global approval matrix (Just a SharePoint List with Approver name, Range & their respective Entity) in a site collection. For a workflow requirement, I had to retrieve the approver(s) and their E-mails based on Entity and Credit amount from Global approval matrix List in a different site collection….
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Requirement: Copy a List item between site collections. Oops! Nintex doesn’t has any direct method to do that. It offers Copy/Move/Create list items with in Same site, but not between site collections. So, Lets seek help from Web services with Nintex. Lets say, I’ve a Source-list and Target-List. What I want is:…
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