Today's modern company is comprised of multiple offices, telecommuters, business travelers and clients on various continents in different time zones. In this global economy, business applications are required to meet the needs of each employee and customer whether they are in Atlanta or Hong Kong. No one wants to be sitting in an important meeting... Continue Reading →
Attending the SHARE Conference in Atlanta
I'll be at the SHARE Conference in Atlanta helping out at the Nintex booth. Stop by and say hello if you're there.
Mobile-Enabling Your SharePoint Forms and Workflow Applications
This post describes how to build an employee on-boarding workflow solution on SharePoint with some new twists. The employee on-boarding process starts with the submission of an Employee Change Request form by the Hiring Manager. Based upon information captured in the form, multiple tasks are then assigned to various roles in the organization: The Department... Continue Reading →
Updating the Item Properties Displayed on a Nintex Workflow Task
By default, certain Nintex workflow task forms include an Item Properties panel that displays all the metadata and certain SharePoint columns for an item in a list/library . Since there could be a long list of columns, you can actually limit the columns that are displayed in the Item Properties panel. Here are the steps:... Continue Reading →
Workflow in Business Processes
All organizations run on processes – complex or simple, clearly defined or ambiguous, automated or by hand. Some of these processes are manual and have been that way for as long as anyone can remember. Employees often unknowingly spend hours, days and weeks annually waiting on manual approvals, written signatures and printed documents. Identifying these... Continue Reading →
Error activating Nintex Workflow 2010 features on site collection
After a migration from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, I received the following error message below when trying to activate the Nintex Workflow 2010 feature at the site collection level. The content type with Id 0x0108010064E42B14ADA442C78E98D686760A8493 defined in feature {86c83d16-605d-41b4-bfdd-c75947899ac7} was found in the current site collection or in a subsite. Background During the content migration,... Continue Reading →
Nintex Workflow 2010 “Failed to copy item. DocID: Site prefix not set.” Error
I created a Nintex Workflow 2010 workflow for a client that ended with the document set the workflow runs on being copied to another document library for archival. The "Copy to SharePoint" action in Nintex is used in the workflow to accomplish the library copy. I received the following error in the workflow upon trying... Continue Reading →
Implementing a Contract Management Workflow Solution using SharePoint and Nintex
Most organizations deal with contracts in some form or another sales, legal, real estate, support agreements, equipment and services. The Contract Management process sometimes consists of a multi-step manual process that involves multiple employees in several departments. Contracts often go through several iterations and get passed back and forth between organization and client many times.... Continue Reading →
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