Nintex Workflows in Office 365 / SharePoint 2013

Welcome to a new topic where we will discuss Nintex Workflows in Office 365.

Why use Nintex when we have our own SharePoint Designer Workflows? The Nintex Workflow for Office 365 enables organizations to extend business process automation to more people, places and devices, delivering workflows for everyone. Nintex Workflow adds a drag-and-drop workflow designer, advanced connectivity and rich workflow features to provide customers more power and flexibility.

Nintex provides a user-friendly approach and helps us to accomplish a lot of functionality in fulfilling our requirements.

So let's see its features.

Get into the list or Document Library and on the top navigation you can see the Nintex Workflow.

Nintex Workflow setting

Once you click on it you will see the following page where you have the following two options:

Visit the Nintex Store
Go to the Designer

Visit the Nintex Store: Yes you are right we have a store here, I will cover this in my next blog.

So, let's go to the Designer.

Here we are in the Designer page.

Welcome to the New SharePoint Designer Page.

Let's see the top navigation where we have:

Save: To save our workflow
Publish: To make it available and its functionality to start in our list or Document Library
New: To create a new workflow
Open: To open the workflow from the Nintex Library
Close: To close the workflow
Import:: To import the Nintex Workflow file from other sites
Export: To Export the Nintex Workflow so that it can be used in other sites
Variables: To assign the variables to our workflows you can create them in here as per the screen below

Store: Coming soon in my next blog
Then we have Help where you can find all kinds of it in a categorized view like Help, Support, Subscription overview, What's new and About.
Finally we have Feedback, where you can provide feedback to Nintex directly thereby helping them to understand your issues directly.

Now let's come to our actions that are divided in the following:

Let's discuss them one by one.

Integration

Here we have the following functionalities under Integration:

Call HTTP Web Service
Query XML
Start Workflow
Update XML

Libraries and Lists

Here we have the following functionalities under the Libraries and Lists section.

Libraries & Lists of Nintex workflow1

Under the actions of Libraries and Lists we have:

Check In Item
Check Out Item
Copy Document
Create List Item
Delete Item
Discard Check Out Item
Office 365 check in items
Office 365 check out items
Office 365 create list item
Office 365 delete items
Office 365 discard check out
Office 365 download file
Office 365 new blog post
Office 365 query list
Office 365 send document set to repository
Office 365 update item permissions
Office 365 update items
Office 365 upload file
Set Field in Current Item
Translate Document
Update List Item
Wait for even in List Item
Wait for field change in Current Item

Logic and Flow

Here we have the following functionalities under the Logic and Flow section.

Logic and Flow of Nintex workflow

It contains the following functions:

Condition Branch
Loop N Times
Loop with Condition
Parallel Block
Run If
Set Next State
Start Machine

Operations

Here we have the following functionalities under the Operations section:

functionalities under Operations section

It contains the following functions:

Add Time to Date
Build Dictionary
Count Items in a Dictionary
Do Calculation
Get an Item from a Dictionary
Log to History List
Pause for Duration
Pause until Date
Set Time Portion of Date/Time Field
Set Workflow Status
Set Workflow Variable

User Interactions

Here we have the following functionalities under the User Interactions section:

It contains the following functions:

Assign a task
Send an Email
Start a task Process

Utility

Finally, here we have the following functionalities under the Utility section.

functionalities under Utility section

It contains the following functions:

Extract Substring from End of String
Extract Substring from Index of String
Extract Substring from Start of String
Extract Substring from Index with Length
Find Interval Between Dates
Find Substring in String
Replace Substring in String
Trim String

So in the conclusion Nintex is now much better with new functionalities, more options and all in one user-friendly way.
Keep Learning.
Cheers.