Homepage • Tomasz Poszytek, Business Applications MVP

Nintex Workflow for Office 365 Office 365 Power Automate SharePoint Online

Discovering suspended workflows with Microsoft Flow

In my daily work over business processes in Office 365, specifically in SharePoint Online, one thing annoys me the most – namely the lack of mechanisms to inform me that the workflow has hung up – that it is in a “Suspended” state.

The solution for that issue is not provided by Microsoft or Nintex – the company with which products I have been working for a quite long time. There are only workarounds, but they are inadequate, and I wanted to be able to react proactively and not reactively to any flow suspension event.

March 2, 2019

Office 365

Microsoft Flow is not only for business

This post is not about solving problems. Or business real life case-studies. This post is about what can you do with tools from Office 365 suite. I am documenting here the solution I built to make my home a little smart and to make my life easier.

January 27, 2019

Nintex Workflow for Office 365

Multiple parallel tasks pattern for Nintex Workflow

Requirement where a designer has create a workflow assigning multiple parallel tasks to multiple parallel groups of approvers is complex.

Basically, Nintex offers us two approaches: either assign task to a group and wait for the first response or to wait for all responses. But what when we need to have multiple groups assigned a task in parallel?

January 2, 2019

Power Apps

End user receives pop-up asking for permission when launching PowerApps

I’m a big fan of working with PowerApps and creating business solutions using that tool. Until last week I wasn’t aware, that when I use specific permissions to access data sources (SharePoint in that case) inside my app, the end user who is going to use that app will be asked for permissions, to be able to use that application.

December 27, 2018

Power Apps Power Automate

PowerApps hand written signature

Customer asked me if this is possible to add handwritten signature to a PDF generated using tools available in Office 365. My first thought was “no”, then I checked that there is “Pen input” control in PowerApps, so it was like “yes”. Then again, after searching “how” this signature can be put inside a document, I thought this is a “no”.

December 3, 2018

Power Bi

Power BI DATEDIFF only working days, hours and so on…

I recently found myself in a situation, when I needed to calculate a date difference between two datetime values in Power BI excluding weekends. The request seemed first as an easy thing, until I found out, that Power BI doesn’t have any function allowing to achieve it easily.

October 26, 2018

Nintex Nintex Forms 2013 Nintex Forms 2016

Nintex Forms – load SQL Server table contents into repeating section

This post is a “how to” tutorial, showing how can a data from SQL Server table be loaded into a “Repeating section” control in Nintex Forms. Needless to say, having that data inside the control allows then to manipulate it and treat each row as a single record, thanks to the possibility of saving contents of the control as XML.

October 8, 2018

Power Apps Power Automate

Removing records in SharePoint from PowerApps

PowerApps is getting more and more powerful tool to create business apps in the “no-code” approach. Using SharePoint as the data source is somehow natural (although there are alternatives, like an SQL Server or Common Data Service) thanks to their tight integration.

September 10, 2018

Nintex Nintex Forms 2013 Nintex Forms 2016

Show SQL Server table inside Nintex Form

Ever wondered how to display SQL table inside your Nintex Form? Indeed, there is the “SQL Request” action, but it only allows you to show data from database as a dropdown, list of options, etc… and always – just a single column.

July 4, 2018

Discovering suspended workflows with Microsoft Flow

Microsoft Flow is not only for business

Multiple parallel tasks pattern for Nintex Workflow

End user receives pop-up asking for permission when launching PowerApps

PowerApps hand written signature

Power BI DATEDIFF only working days, hours and so on…

Nintex Forms – load SQL Server table contents into repeating section

Removing records in SharePoint from PowerApps

Show SQL Server table inside Nintex Form

Mentioning in Microsoft Teams via Power Automate

For a selected message – new trigger in Power Automate

RPA in a day labs are live!

Trigger WinAutomation from UI flows

When a new team member is added