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Posted By Markus on April 16th, 2010

Today I´ve been with a customer and ran into a problem using the “Update AD Account” activity. One scenario was to manage AD Accounts with the help of SharePoint Lists and Nintex Workflow. Anyways, it was necessary to maintain the “AccountExpirationDate” property of AD accounts. Unfortunately there´s no way to do that by default with [...]

 
Posted By Markus on September 30th, 2010

I´m happy to announce that my workshop is now online and open for registration @ http://www.collaborationdays.ch

In this half day workshop I´ll pick up real life scenarios and explain how easy and quick you can create, deploy and maintain your SharePoint workflows using Nintex Workflow 2010. You´ll also see how you can enhance your workflow experience [...]

Posted By Markus on Juli 15th, 2010

Mike Fitzmaurice is not just a Nintex expert, obviously he´s a very good drawer too J

Do not miss this great video he did to promote the product!

 
You can download the video herehttp://nintexdownload.com/video/NW2010Whiteboard.wmv

 

Posted By Markus on Juli 13th, 2010

In this post I´ll discover more functionality that comes along with Nintex Workflow 2010. Imagine you have a parent-child relation within your workflows and the parent workflow depends on data that is created inside the child workflow.

With former edition of Nintex Workflow it was absolutely impossible to get control of any workflow data within a [...]

Posted By Markus on Juli 13th, 2010

Yesterday Nintex released the latest version of its workflow product Nintex Workflow 2010! As you know, I´m sort of a Nintex guy and therefore the latest release needs to be mentioned on my blog. There´s lots of new things to discover, I´ll try to keep you up2date and share some experience regularly.

For further information, visit [...]

Posted By Markus on Juli 13th, 2010

With the latest release of Nintex Workflow 2010 there comes a new function to enable you to convert documents to other formats. If you are familiar with the new SharePoint Word Automation Services you recognize that this workflow activity encapsulates the service 1:1. Since the Word Automation Services are only available on SharePoint Server systems [...]

Posted By Markus on Mai 26th, 2010

If you have ever wondered whether it´s possible to use Nintex Workflow to create / update / delete / whatever SharePoint items on sub-sites, yes you can! It´s a bit tricky since the default action “Create Item” does not support this functionality, but that does not mean it´s impossible to do it.

You have a few [...]

Posted By Markus on April 18th, 2010

In this second posting I`ll demonstrate with another example how you can make great use of Nintex Workflow and the PowerActivity. The first posting showed how you can use the PowerActivity against your Active Directory backend and how to update certain AD Account properties.

This time I`m going to use Nintex Workflow to create a shared [...]

Posted By Markus on April 16th, 2010

Today I´ve been with a customer and ran into a problem using the “Update AD Account” activity. One scenario was to manage AD Accounts with the help of SharePoint Lists and Nintex Workflow. Anyways, it was necessary to maintain the “AccountExpirationDate” property of AD accounts. Unfortunately there´s no way to do that by default with [...]

Posted By Markus on März 4th, 2010

This is the third part of my series on Twitter Automation with Nintex Workflow 2007. If you don´t know what I´m talking about, read the first two parts here

Intro

Part I (connecting external system, webservices with Nintex Workflow)

In this part I´ll create a list structure within SharePoint. Let´s recapture what I´m trying to do. When this [...]

Posted By Markus on März 2nd, 2010

In my last post I described how I´ll try use workflows and lists to build service-like behaviour to automatically add Twitter users to my “following” list.

To get this done, we need to take a closer look at how to use Nintex Workflow to place web requests and how Twitters own search engine is working.

The Twitter [...]