Overall Satisfaction with Nintex Workflow
Pros
- Document Approvals: Nintex Workflow makes it easy to gain approval for documentation that has been submitted via a document library in SharePoint. It has the ability to handle simple approval processes but can also powerhouse through more complex approval processes as well.
- Notifications: I think this one is worth mentioning although it is simple. Nintex Workflow has the ability to provide a more custom feel for notification than out of the box (OOTB) SharePoint notifications. It has the ability to include information from multiple lists in a site collection and it has the ability to create complex HTML to have a more custom email.
- Data Processing: I use Nintex Workflow at times for simple data processing: For example, I recently used Nintex Workflow with a SharePoint calendar to create a reservation system. Nintex Workflow plays a key role in the calculation of available time slots and other features in the reservation system.
Cons
- Images in notification are not impossible to accomplish, but because Nintex Workflow (and/or SharePoint) truncates the url for relativity purposes makes it difficult to just add the location of the image to the source editor.
- Nintex Workflows in my experience do not behave consistently with SharePoint document libraries that require more metadata around a document to entered. The workflow in some instances start once the metadata information have been entered (which is what I expect) and at other times start once the document has been uploaded and prior to entering the metadata.
- Nintex Workflow conditional start is not always consistent. There have been some instance where I have had a workflow set to start on a condition and when the condition was met the workflow failed to start.
- Error messages from Nintex Workflow failures are at times vague which makes it difficult to troubleshoot quickly especially in more complex workflows.
- Most certainly it has positive impact in the area of automation of group processes.
- It also has allowed my group in particular to increase our ability for customer service to the business.
- Nintex Workflow, if used incorrectly can significantly effect the SharePoint environments speed.
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