Read Document

Enterprise Edition for Nintex Workflow 2016 is required for this feature.

Microsoft SharePoint Server is required for this feature.

Retrieves a value from a content control within a Word document and stores the value in a workflow variable.

Note: The Word document must be in the docx format (either Word 2007, Word 2010 or Word 2013).  Files in the format ".doc" cannot save content controls - it converts them to static content.

Options within this action

Source

The document where the 'content control' is to be read from. Select either:

• The Current item; OR
• Source URL. In the Source URL field, the full URL including the filename and type will need to be provided. E.g. 'http://mycompany.com/sales/Shared%20Documents/WordDocument.docx'

Content control title

The title of the 'content control' within the document.

Note: Be aware of the following when specifying a content control title:

• If there are 'content controls' with the same title within the document, the first content control title that matches the one specified will be used.

However if the selected workflow variable to store the content control values is type of Collection, all the values returned from all the content controls with the specified title will be saved.

• If a 'content control' specified is of rich text type, it will not include formatting or pictures that are within the 'content control'.

Store in

Select the Workflow variable to store the value retrieved from the 'content control' within the document. Collection type workflow variables can be used to save multiple content control values of the same title.

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