Nintex Workflow is one of common and most sought after 3rd
party Workflow engine in SharePoint because of its intuitive interface to
configure workflow and the wealth of activities available for non-technical
person in the organization to quickly create a Workflow in SharePoint
environment. I recently encountered an issue with Nintex Workflow which I think
is unusual but I still want to discuss this because it may be useful to someone
who might encounter this as there is no good information available in Nintex
documentation or in their forum. nintex connect
I have Nintex Workflow 2010 installed and had put together a
simple workflow for document management and approval. This Workflow was
published in a Library and was working fine. A week ago we created a SharePoint
page and added the Library web part with a view created.
Today when we wanted to change the workflow a little bit to
include different approval department I navigated to the page where we added the
Library previously and try to open the Nintex Workflow Management Page, to my
surprise the management page nor the Nintex Workflow Create page is not found,
but the workflow is still starting as soon as the document is added because it
is set to start automatically.
After poking around for some time and digging deep in the
page I found that the List web part that was added earlier had “Toolbar type”
set as summary toolbar. This has caused the Nintex Workflow page to not to show
up. This I think is a bug with Nintex because if we can see SharePoint Designer
Workflow management page we should also be seeing 3rd part workflow
management pages.
Changing to Full Tool bar
Management Page started appearing again.
This could happen in default List Page in SharePoint if for some reason you wanted to have summary tool bar and not full tool bar.
Hope this helps someone.
<Update>
This issue is not a bug as I noted earlier as you can see from Nintex Support in the comments. Thanks Nintex Support for your clarification. It appears that this is an issue with custom ribbon buttons.
</Update>
<Update>
This issue is not a bug as I noted earlier as you can see from Nintex Support in the comments. Thanks Nintex Support for your clarification. It appears that this is an issue with custom ribbon buttons.
</Update>
We've seen this before at Nintex Support.
ReplyDeleteIt appears that the 'summary toolbar' or 'no toolbar' does not load any custom ribbon buttons.
This can be demonstrated with ribbon buttons deployed as features, or ribbon buttons added using SharePoint Designer. Only the 'Full toolbar' option will load customizations.
Here's one site mentioning it: http://mysharepointwork.blogspot.com.au/2010/10/sharepoint-2010-ribbon-button-does-not.html
Here is another: http://www.itidea.nl/index.php/custom-ribbon-button-doesnt-show-up/
Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to change this.
I hope this helps.
Thanks. I updated the blog to reflect this as not a bug with Nintex workflow and also thanks for the information. May be in SharePoint 15 Microsoft address this. We use summary or no tool bar option most of the time in our product configuration.
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