With the latest build Nintex added again lots of new features. Besides the product now supports multilingual user interfaces, it also offers the possibility to use inline functions. These functions focus on manipulating and formatting string and date values and are mostly clones of existing functions known from the .net Framework. You can use the functions in any inputbox within the Nintex Workflow Designer, see the example below.

This is how it works:

"The parsing engine first replaces any inserted reference tokens, and then the resulting text is evaluated for functions. If a function contains another function as an argument, the inner most function will be evaluated first. As reference tokens are replaced first, the reference token can also contain function syntax that will be evaluated. If text contains function syntax (i.e. a brace or comma character) but is not intended to be interpreted by the parser, wrap the text with {TextStart} and {TextEnd} markers to inform the parser that the block should only be treated as text and not evaluated. For example, if a number variable that contains a decimal value is passed to the function, and the decimal separator for your region is a comma, the {TextStart} and {TextEnd} tokens will need to be used."

The current build [10903] supports the following functions:

That´s rich! J

Markus

If you use the "Create a Site" activity with Nintex Workflow 2007, there is no way to assign detailed user permissions for the newly created site - you can only choose to either inherit the permissions from the parent site or you can manually set a single user as site owner.

But here is the solution: Use the Data One PowerActivity and a few straightforward lines of PowerShell code to manage the user permissions and roles in detail!

$webDestination = get-spweb "{WorkflowVariable:AbsolutURL}"

$webDestination.BreakRoleInheritance($true)

$roleAssignment = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPRoleAssignment -argumentList "domain\user"

$roleDefinition = $webDestination.RoleDefinitions["Contribute"]

$roleAssignment.RoleDefinitionBindings.Add($roleDefinition)

$webDestination.RoleAssignments.Add($roleAssignment)

$webDestination.Dispose()

Insert the PowerActivity after the "Create a site" activity within the Nintex Workflow Designer canvas. Paste the PowerShell snippet into the PowerActivity. Use $webDestination to set the new site's URL, which you can easily obtain from the "Create a site" activity (configuration dialog > Store URL in). Set -argumentList and RoleDefinitions["Contribute"] according to your requirements. Run your workflow and see for yourself that all permissions have been created automatically.

Regards,

Andreas