Data connections

  Administrator role required.

The Data connections page displays the data connections associated with your subscription. The data connections that have been added and not added yet are shown in separate sections.

You must add data connections for your Nintex platform capabilities to display data in the Nintex Insights Dashboards. We recommend adding data connections for all of your Nintex platform capabilities in a single workspace An instance of Nintex Insightcs that consists of dashboards for the data connections you have added on your Nintex platform, which specified users can access. to get a full view of your Nintex platform data.

Currently you can add data connections for the following Nintex platform capabilities:

Nintex platform capability Data connection type
Nintex Automation Cloud Nintex Automation Cloud
Nintex for Office 365 SharePoint Online

Nintex for SharePoint 2019

Nintex for SharePoint 2016

Nintex for SharePoint 2013

SharePoint
Note: 
  • Only Nintex workflow data currently displays in Nintex Insights.

  • You can add data connections for Nintex capabilities that are not associated with your customer account if you have the required access.

  • Nintex Insights updates data in near-time, between 2 to 4 hours on average. Data availability is also dependent on the size and volume of data sent to Nintex Insights. The process will take longer for larger data volumes.

Access the data connections page

  1. On the upper-right of your Nintex Insights workspace home page, click Settings.
  2. Click Data connections in the side navigation menu.

View unconnected tenants

At the top of the Data connections page, separate sections display information of how many possible connections have been established for each of the Nintex data connection types associated with your customer account.

Note: A data connection count is unavailable for SharePoint because manual activation is required for SharePoint tenants. To display a full view of your Nintex platform, we recommend adding data connections for all SharePoint tenants associated with your Nintex license.

To view unconnected tenants for Nintex Automation Cloud or Nintex for SharePoint Online and begin the add data connection process:

  1. Click View unconnected tenants.

  2. Click the tenant name you want to add a data connection for.

See Add a Nintex Automation Cloud data connection and Add a SharePoint Online data connection for the next steps.

Add a Nintex Automation Cloud data connection

  1. Click Add data connection.
  2. Select Nintex Automation Cloud for the Data connection type.
  3. Click Connect.
  4. Note: You must have the administrator role in Nintex Automation Cloud to add a data connection for Nintex Automation Cloud. See the User management Nintex Automation Cloud help topic.

  5. The Nintex Automation Cloud sign in window is displayed. Sign in to Nintex Automation Cloud.
    1. Type your Email.
    2. Type your Password.
    3. Click Sign In.

The data connection is created and displays in the Data connections page. Nintex Automation Cloud data will display in your Dashboards.

Add a SharePoint Online data connection

  1. Click Add data connection.
  2. Select SharePoint Online for the Data connection type.
  3. Type the SharePoint Online tenant URL.
  4. Click Connect.
  5. Note: You must be a global administrator or SharePoint Online or Office 365 user with Sites.Read.All permissions for the SharePoint Online or Office 365 tenant for which you are creating a data connection. See the Applications permissions section of the Microsoft Graph permissions reference.

  6. Sign in to SharePoint Online.
    1. Type your Email address.
    2. Type your Password.
    3. Click Sign in.

The data connection is created and displays in the Data connections page. SharePoint Online data will display in your Dashboards.

Add a SharePoint data connection

Before you can create a SharePoint data connection, you must activate Nintex Insights in your SharePoint tenant. When you activate Nintex Insights in your SharePoint tenant, note the Region, Isolation ID and Access Token, which you will need to add the data connection in Nintex Insights.