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Here’s My Journey!  A few weeks ago, I attended a webinar hosted by one of the Nintex’s partner companies. They were showing off the features of Nintex K2, and one small feature really caught my eye: the ability to preview attached PDF documents and images without downloading them first. This was so much better than the usual way K2 works, where you have to download files just to see…

Hello Everyone, Wish you all a Happy New Year!! Hope you are doing well! Recently I was assigned with a task to generate a custom report/Application Form Softcopy from K2 application, there is something which our team have already developed and being used for this purpose. We have a word document as template which has replaceable fields mentioned in a specific format. There are around 300 – 400…

Hello There, let’s see a simple CSS & JavaScript technique to highlight the selected items of a checkbox list inside a K2 smart form. As you know K2 choice control as a checkbox list doesn’t have much options to highlight the selected items, we can use this simple JavaScript code to highlight the background of selected items which will update automatically on change of selection. Please find the…

Hello there, Hope you are doing well. It’s been quite a while since I have made a post on K2. Today I have found an interesting thing while doing some research in K2 smartforms, I’m updating a data label value from javascript and trying to use the updated value in K2 Rules, When I did the update it is reflecting the new value on screen but to my surprise it is giving the old value when I’m using…

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Microsoft have given us a wonderful opportunity to utilize their office 365 setup at free of cost which they call it as Microsoft Developer Program. By following few simple steps, we can get access to their sandbox environment instantly. There are 2 types of subscriptions available in this,  The Office 365 E3 Developer subscription – Old subscription type for all the accounts created before Aug…

Let’s Learn PowerApps – #1 Power Platform Introduction

Let’s Learn PowerApps – 1 Power Platform Introduction Hello everyone! Hope you are doing well.  Wish you all a Happy Deepavali!! It’s been a while since I have posted some content in my blog as I was going through a major learning and transformation chapters in my life both personally & professionally. Now that I’ve got some time, I have started this series of posts (Let’s Learn PowerApps)…

My First Bot in Power Automate.

In this post I will show the details about Download & Installing the Power Automate DesktopGo through the options available in Power Automate DesktopCreate a simple Automated Process and Execute. Step 1: Download & Install Power Automate Desktop Login to https://emea.flow.microsoft.com/en-us/ with your Microsoft account and click Download Power Automate for Desktop Windows 10 or click this…

RPA – Robotic Process Automation

It’s been quite a while since I have explored a new technology as I was completely occupied with various kind of assignments in K2 BPM. But due to COVID 19 and Work from Home Option for the last one year, I found some buffer time, which I have utilized to explore the automation area which is familiar as Robotic Process Automation RPA. Let us understand what Automation is. Automation is nothing…

Using K2 Out of the box PDF control to generate a printable PDF document in K2 Smartforms.

Today I’m going to create a sample page which uses K2 Out of the box “Save As PDF” control to generate a pdf document of a K2 smartform. Let’s start!! Step 1:  Add necessary Controls on the Details View where you need the Export PDF functionality Drag a Toolbar button on the view where you need to export to pdf and give the text as Export to PDF and from icons select PDF icon.Drag the Save As…

How to Install a Custom Font and Register it in K2.

Though we have different fonts made available for use in K2 designer by K2, some design enthusiasts still look for using custom fonts inside the Smart forms for improving the look & feel of the User Interface. This is a pretty common requirement which we come across many clients. So let’s see how we can install a new font on the K2 Machine and add it inside K2 for usage across Smartforms. Step…

How to use simple out of the box Export to Excel feature in K2.

Exporting date to excel is a common requirement which we see across many applications. Keeping this in mind K2 have provided a simple out of the box & easy to use feature using which we can easily export the K2 List view data to an excel sheet. Let’s see how we can use this feature with a sample application. Here I have a List of students for which I have created a smartobject and a list view…

Simple Email OTP Verification in K2 Smartforms and SQL

In any signup or registration forms OTP Verification for Mobile Number or Email Id is very common requirement these days. Let’s see how can implement a Simple E-Mail Id Verification in K2 Smartforms using OTP.

Verification process starts when user enters his EmailId and Click Verify Button after which the user will receive an OTP on his emaild. Once the user receive’s OTP he needs to enter…

Countdown timers are very useful when you have Email/OTP Validations on your Web forms with a time limit. Currently K2 doesn’t have an OOB control to do this, but we can achieve this by using a Timer control. Let’s see how we can implement.

In the sample which I’m using below, there is an Email Verification in which User enters his Email Id and clicks Submit to receive a 6-Digit Code on his…

Triggering a K2 Workflow from Microsoft Flow.

In this Post we shall see how we can trigger a K2 workflow from a Microsoft flow.

We have 2 ways to do this.

Using the K2 connector.

Using the OOB K2 Api.

Using the K2 connector

Go to Microsoft flow Dashboard and click on “New” and you will see few options among which you need to select “Instant – from blank”.

Give your flow a name and there you will find different options to trigger…

Sharepoint List Binding with K2 Workflow & Smartforms

Today we shall see how we can bind a K2 workflow with a Sharepoint List and trigger the workflow when an item gets added to the list. Also we shall see how we can use K2 smartforms for adding & updating an items in SharePoint list.

In previous post I have shown how to enable K2 for a list using K2 Five for Sharepoint tool and the options for generating the Smartobjects, Smartforms, workflows &…

Registering a SharePoint Service Instance Using K2 Five for SharePoint App.

Prior K2 Versions have the provision of creating a Sharepoint Service Instance from the “SmartObjects Service Tester Utility” Tool by providing the Site URL, which would fetch all the objects in that site. But the latest K2 Version (from K2 Five I believe) they have removed the direct provision to create a new Sharepoint 2013 Service Instance and it has to be created Via K2 Five for Sharepoint…