A short post about how to use regular expressions in a Nintex workflow. This example, that is part of a big workflow for a call registration system, shows how to use the Regular expressions action to check if the logon name of an user (<domainname>\<account>) contains a specific pattern. If this results in the value “true” (or yes) a Run if … action is executed. The part of the workflow is below.
In the first step of this workflow I have the settings seen in the picture below.
Pattern: is the text I would like to check
Check match: I would like to know if the pattern is contained in the input text
Input text: is the column in my list I would like to check. In this example the column “Name employee” is a Person or Group field. The contents are <domainname>\<account> (which is resolved to a “normal” name)
Store result in: is a workflow variable to store the result (”true” or “false”) of this action, which can be used as input for the next step.
Tags: Howto, regular expressions
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August 3rd, 2011 at 11:17 PM
I think this is useful, but may not help me parse my regular expressions into fields used by the Nintex Workflow.
I also wanted to post so there is at least one *real* post that isn’t some SPAM generated by a robot. The others obviously are.