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How to: Migration of Workflow Constants from on premise to Office 365

Workflow constants are a feature available only in Nintex Workflow for SharePoint on premises, allowing you to store globally used workflow variables in a single place. These variables can be then used across all web applications and site collections in your SharePoint Farm, or just in a single site – depending on the scope where they were created.

There are numerous use cases where Workflow Constants can be used: keep user credentials used for authentication in actions, keep thresholds for approvals, or keep specific dates, which are important for your company operational processes and many more, generally related to the “dictionary” purposes.

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Nintex Workflow Migration from on premise to Office 365

Recently I’ve been involved in that project, where data and information that was being created for years in on premise SharePoints had to be migrated to the Sharepoint Online environment in Office 365. All migration was said to be a simple, straightforward and easy due to the usage of Sharegate, but… the real truth turned out to be way more dark.

Before the real migration started I sat down and started reading about the process and possible obstacles. I can now divide them into 3 groups:

  1. Limitations of Sharegate
  2. Limitations of SharePoint Online
  3. Limitations of Nintex for Office 365.

First things first. I will guide you through all and each from them.