Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Create a dynamic filtered url with Nintex

Filter to column you want to filter in the sharepoint list

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Copy the url and keep the filter parameter

http://alegri-intranet/sites/site0001/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?View={3B183E3B-0A88-4AA8-B012-A16534FA9BF0}&FilterField1=Editor&FilterValue1=ALEGRI%5CAdministrator

Remove all unwanted parameters

http://alegri-intranet/sites/site0001/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?FilterField1=Editor&FilterValue1=

With a Nintex Workflow i want to you create a mail containing the filtered link with all documents off the user who initiated the workflow

First Create a workflow variable

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Add the following actions to the workflow

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Configure the action "build dynamic string"

Copy the modified url of the filter and add the reference field (in this case Initiator)

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Configure the action "send a notification"

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Insert Reference and configure the dialog as shown in the following picture

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Ready