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Activate Nintex Forms

To design forms using Nintex Forms, feature activation is required on the site collection. The Nintex Forms Prerequisites feature must be activated before activating other Nintex Forms features.

To activate Nintex Forms in a site collection

  1. Navigate to the Site Collection home page.
  2. Click the Settings Icon , in the top right-hand corner, and select Site Settings.
  3. In the Site Collection Administration group, click Site collection features.

  4. In the Nintex Forms Prerequisites section, click Activate.

    After a short delay, the page refreshes and the status becomes Active.

To activate Nintex Forms for Nintex Workflow in a site collection

Note: Nintex Workflow must be installed and configured prior to activating this feature.

  1. Navigate to the Site Collection home page.
  2. Click the Settings Icon , and select Site Settings.
  3. In the Site Collection Administration group, click Site collection features.

  4. In the Nintex Forms for Nintex Workflow section, click the Activate button.

    After a short delay, the page refreshes and the status becomes Active. 

To activate Nintex Forms for SharePoint List Forms in a site collection

  1. Navigate to the Site Collection home page.
  2. Click the Settings Icon  , and select Site Settings.
  3. In the Site Collection Administration group, click Site collection features.

  4. In the Nintex Forms for SharePoint List Forms section, click the Activate button.

    After a short delay, the page refreshes and the status becomes Active.

To activate external forms in a site collection

The Enable external forms option must also be enabled in the External forms settings page when activating this feature.

  1. Navigate to the Site Collection home page.
  2. Click the Settings Icon , and select Site Settings.
  3. In the Site Collection Administration group, click Site collection features.

  4. In the Nintex External Forms section, click the Activate button.

    After a short delay, the page refreshes and the status becomes Active.

Related information

Enable external forms