Homepage • Tomasz Poszytek, Business Applications MVP

Nintex Workflow for Office 365 SharePoint Online

How To: SharePoint grouped view conditional formatting

Recently my customer asked me to create a dashboard, to monitor completion of tasks in a workflow. The idea was to highlight completed, on track and overdue tasks with different colors. First I thought about using SharePoint list with Modern Experience, and column formatting. But then I was asked, not only to highlight rows for tasks, but also their grouping header – as there were many tasks created per each group of tasks and the customer wanted to see status of a whole group ad-hoc, without a need to drill down.

April 21, 2018

Nintex Drawloop/ Document Generation Nintex Forms for Office 365 Nintex Mobile Nintex Workflow for Office 365 Power Automate

How To: use Nintex Mobile signature in Document Generation

I recently was asked a question: how can I use the signature from the Nintex Mobile inside a document being generated by the Generate Document action? Unfortunately this is not yet feasible only using Nintex products. This is because Nintex Workflow for Office 365 is not handling correctly the binary data (it loses null bits) so what I proposed was to use Microsoft Flow.

March 9, 2018

Nintex

What’s coming up for Nintex in 2018?

The Nintex Xchange conference in San Diego has just finished. Although I haven’t had the opportunity to be there myself, our community is sharing fast still hot news from the event. I decided to put them in order facing my personal interests.

March 1, 2018

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Working with Nintex for Office 365 REST API from Azure Functions

Still being under impression from working with Azure Functions, I decided to try finally build a solution for Nintex Workflows for Office 365, where I have a single repository of workflows’ definitions, and from here I am able to publish them across the site, to different libraries or lists. Previously I was only able to do it using PowerShell or tools like Postman or Fiddler. However I wanted to have a single workflow that does all of the magic for me.

February 5, 2018

Azure

References in Azure Functions – custom DLLs – how to

When you want to call methods or objects in C# code, you must declare them with “using” statement. But what if the package is not available? Then you must first make a reference to it. When programming in local environment it just require to upload needed dlls into the project. But what when you are not using desktop IDE, but through the Azure console?

January 26, 2018

Office 365 Power Automate SharePoint Online

How to: Move/ copy InfoPath attachments in SharePoint Online

Although it has been repeatedly said that the history of InfoPath is over, for many companies still building workflows’ forms using InfoPath is as obvious as using Excel. However, when doing that in Office 365 and SharePoint Online the product’s boundaries are really visible and are becoming a real pain.

I’ve been struggling some time ago with an issue related to the workflow’s instance size (here), what was directly related to the size of the InfoPath form together with attached files. The obvious solution I was thinking then was moving those attachments away from the form, into a dedicated SharePoint library, but I wasn’t able to do that easily mainly because of the algorithm that is used in InfoPath to handle file attachments.

December 29, 2017

Office 365 Power Apps Power Automate

SharePoint Online and Office 365 – new features being rolled out

As we all have heard, during the Ignite, Microsoft was planning a lot of cool new features to be rolled out for Office 365 as a whole but even more, and even more interesting, for the connected environment of SharePoint Online, Flow and PowerApps. Post describes the features that I was able to already see and use.

Small disclaimer! Most of these features are still available only for the tenants in First Release mode or even in private preview 🙂

November 21, 2017

Office 365 Power Automate

Embed images in e-mail’s body using Microsoft Flow

I was working on my newsletter’s solution, aimed to automatically send prepared messages hosted in my SharePoint. Naturally, newsletters often contain images. Lots of them frankly speaking. The most straightforward approach was to insert them as a URL to the physical file stored in SharePoint (described here). However, in that approach, if a recipient has no access to the site, where the file is hosted or is not yet logged in, the images won’t show up.

November 2, 2017

Office 365 SharePoint Online

Site Collection Administrator access denied when adding solutions

I have recently found myself in a situation, when after creation of a new, Modern Site (it was a modern Team Site) my account, even though that was set to be a SharePoint Administrator (even a tenant one :)) and a Site Collection Administrator wasn’t able to see links to any galleries in the Site Collection settings. Moreover, when accessing them using a direct links and then trying to ex. add a new solution, I was being told, that I have no permissions for that operation.

October 30, 2017

How To: SharePoint grouped view conditional formatting

How To: use Nintex Mobile signature in Document Generation

What’s coming up for Nintex in 2018?

Working with Nintex for Office 365 REST API from Azure Functions

References in Azure Functions – custom DLLs – how to

How to: Move/ copy InfoPath attachments in SharePoint Online

Site Collection Administrator access denied when adding solutions

Migrating Nintex repeating section to Power Apps

Managing Power Apps Offline Access with M365 Security Groups

Replace special characters using Power Automate

Unlock and lock Excel spreadsheet using Office Script

Save XML data to SharePoint list dynamically