Hawkeye - Beginning Beacon

Note: The Hawkeye - Beginning Beacon action will no longer be available and is replaced with Nintex Insights - Beginning Beacon action after you install the latest Nintex for SharePoint Subscription Edition version. If you have existing published workflows containing Hawkeye Beacon actions, republish them to start sending data to Nintex Analytics.

Logs the start of a process stage with Nintex Hawkeye.

For this action, you need to name the stage you are highlighting in the Stage Name field (required). You can also include an expected duration for the stage to complete. The Expected Duration property measures how long the process takes to complete against what you expect. For example, you may want this stage of the workflow to complete within 30 minutes, and test that number with the process intelligence lens report.

Note: To accurately capture the start and end of the process you are interested in, use both the Beginning Beacon and the Ending Beacon workflow actions. See also​​ Hawkeye - Ending Beacon.​

The following two beacons are used to identify the start and end of a process stage. These two actions must be used together.

This topic describes how to configure the Beginning Beacon action.

Action settings

Following are the fields and options visible in the configuration settings dialog box for this action.

Field Description
Stage Name

(Required) Specify a name for the start of a new process stage within your workflow.

Make sure to specify the same process stage name in the Ending Beacon action.

Expected Duration

Specify the expected duration in seconds for the stage to run. This property measures how long the process takes to complete against the expected results. For example, you may want this stage of the process to complete within 30 seconds, and test that number with the process intelligence lens report.

Example: 30
Beacons

Define one or more beacons to emit data from the workflow for reports. Examples include variables and list items.
Add Beacon Adds another beacon for this action.
Error handling Configure settings as appropriate. With error handling you can capture errors that occur during the execution of the call to Nintex Hawkeye and add additional actions to handle any exceptions.

​For additional information about this action, see the Nintex Hawkeye online help.