Saw a nice link on twitter by @eden_stafford about extracting an attachment from an email and saving it to a SharePoint library with Nintex Workflow.
The original post by Kolitha de Silva can be found here.
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I have set up a SharePoint 2010 farm. Some databases have been configured by using PowerShell scripts. Therefore they have friendly names like SP2010_Config. I do not have made scripts for every configuration step yet so some database names are like this \WebAnalyticsServiceApplication_ReportingDB_2d5a77a9-8360-41cf-9294-14587f977d1d.
I would like to have nice looking names in my SQL server so I [...]
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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 [...]
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This post is a bit off topic for this blog but I’ll post it anyway as a reminder for myself and hopefully to help others who want to do the same. At a client someone had to convert a very simple, plain, flat text excel 2007 workbook to an xml file format.
I have made an [...]
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At a client SharePoint 2007 farm, installed on Windows Server 2008 servers, I had to install SQL Server Reporting Services Add in for Sharepoint. I already know that one has to install with elevated privileges at 2008 but this installation required some specific steps to complete.
At first I tried this installation:
Open a command prompt with [...]
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Opening a Infopath 2007 browser based form through a link in i.e. a links webpart is done by first opening the form manually, copying the complete URL, extracting the “&Source…” part from the URL and using the URL as a hyperlink. See example below:
I have a form which opens with this complete URL:
http://intranet/eforms/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=http://intranet/FormServerTemplates/DeclCashSal.xsn&SaveLocation=http%3A%2F%2Fintranet%2Feforms%2FDeclaration&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fintranet%2Feforms%2FDeclaration%2FForms%2FAllItems%2Easpx&DefaultItemOpen=1
After I extract [...]
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You can use this action to delay a workflow for a definite time. For example a few minutes…even a few years :-).
The action is shown by the symbol above.
When you choose “edit properties” you can set the time period the workflow will be delayed. See picture below.
At the bottom there is a checkbox for business [...]
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