Showing posts with label Nintex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nintex. Show all posts
Friday, August 21, 2015
SharePoint Online: Can't save a site as template if you have Nintex apps installed
Today I tried to save a SharePoint Online site as a template when it had the Nintex Forms and Nintex Workflow apps added. That's obviously not supported (I hope yet). In that specific case, I'll have to use on-premise infrastructure...
Monday, August 17, 2015
Automating group assignment for external users in SharePoint Online
I have this requirement as part of a site that will be built specifically for external users in SharePoint Online.
It's basically an automation need for users to be granted access to certain areas of the site by adding them to appropriate SharePoint Online groups. Users should also be automatically created by a workflow when their details are picked up from a list.
I've done an attempt to do this in SharePoint Designer, but it turns out there's no such action in there.
A couple of alternatives exist - Nintex Workflow which I have in place and Plumsail Workflow Action Pack which I don't have in place but a quick overview can be found on their website.
With Nintex, there is the handy action "Office 365 add user to group", which is usually working well. For external users, however, I found it impossible to resolve them like any Office 365 user.
I understand this might be due to the licensing part of the whole picture (external users can't be assigned a SharePoint Online license), but I am hoping that Nintex would address this issue in any of the future releases.
The only alternative I found so far is to create this user in the Office 365 tenant, assign a license to it (all automated through the workflow) and then add it to the group. Unfortunately, my requirements involve no licensing for such users, so I'll have to find another possible automation approach.
Has any of you managed to accomplish this? Would be happy to hear oppinions.
It's basically an automation need for users to be granted access to certain areas of the site by adding them to appropriate SharePoint Online groups. Users should also be automatically created by a workflow when their details are picked up from a list.
I've done an attempt to do this in SharePoint Designer, but it turns out there's no such action in there.
A couple of alternatives exist - Nintex Workflow which I have in place and Plumsail Workflow Action Pack which I don't have in place but a quick overview can be found on their website.
With Nintex, there is the handy action "Office 365 add user to group", which is usually working well. For external users, however, I found it impossible to resolve them like any Office 365 user.
The only alternative I found so far is to create this user in the Office 365 tenant, assign a license to it (all automated through the workflow) and then add it to the group. Unfortunately, my requirements involve no licensing for such users, so I'll have to find another possible automation approach.
Has any of you managed to accomplish this? Would be happy to hear oppinions.
Monday, June 29, 2015
Web Part Error when trying to view the Nintex Workflow Administration reports
Today I had to do a brand new installation of Nintex Workflow 2013 over SharePoint 2013 SP1.
After following the guide from Nintex, all worked well, except viewing the Administration reports.
This page is part of the Workflow Report Center and contains 10 different reports which are quite useful and they pertain to all sites within the entire SharePoint environment.
So the issue is that whenever you go to the highlighted link in the Nintex Workflow Management section in Central Admin:
Solution:
1. Open IIS Manager on the SharePoint server.
2. Navigate to the SharePoint Central Administration v4 Site and go to Explore.
3. Open the Web.config file after backing it up and add the two lines below before closing the tag </SafeControls>
4. Save web.config and refresh the Administration reports page.
<SafeControl Assembly="Nintex.Workflow.ServerControls, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=913f6bae0ca5ae12" Namespace="Nintex.Workflow.ServerControls" TypeName="*" Safe="True" />
<SafeControl Assembly="Nintex.Workflow.ServerControls, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=913f6bae0ca5ae12" Namespace="Nintex.Workflow.ServerControls.WebParts" TypeName="*" Safe="True" />
You should be able to deep dive into the Nintex Reporting functionalities now.
After following the guide from Nintex, all worked well, except viewing the Administration reports.
This page is part of the Workflow Report Center and contains 10 different reports which are quite useful and they pertain to all sites within the entire SharePoint environment.
So the issue is that whenever you go to the highlighted link in the Nintex Workflow Management section in Central Admin:
You'd end up getting this:
Solution:
1. Open IIS Manager on the SharePoint server.
2. Navigate to the SharePoint Central Administration v4 Site and go to Explore.
3. Open the Web.config file after backing it up and add the two lines below before closing the tag </SafeControls>
4. Save web.config and refresh the Administration reports page.
<SafeControl Assembly="Nintex.Workflow.ServerControls, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=913f6bae0ca5ae12" Namespace="Nintex.Workflow.ServerControls" TypeName="*" Safe="True" />
<SafeControl Assembly="Nintex.Workflow.ServerControls, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=913f6bae0ca5ae12" Namespace="Nintex.Workflow.ServerControls.WebParts" TypeName="*" Safe="True" />
You should be able to deep dive into the Nintex Reporting functionalities now.
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