Create a text string

Use the Create a text string action A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows. to join text and variables together and output as one Text variable value.

For example, users fill out a Nintex form, which includes two fields: First name and Last name. Both the first name and last name are required later in the workflow as separate variables, but the workflow will also send multiple email notifications to the named person in the form.

You configure the Create a text string action to combine both the First name and Last name variables into one Full name variable, which you add into the message body of several Send an email actions.

Configure the Create a text string action

  1. Add the action to the workflow and open the action configuration panel. For more information, see Add, rename, and copy actions.

  2. In the String components field, type text and/or add variables that you want to join into one Text variable value.
  3. Select the Result, which is the variable that stores the joined string components into one Text value.

Create a text string action fields and settings

Field

Description

Variable

String components The text/variables to join together and output as one Text variable value. Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection

Result

The variable which stores the joined String components.

Text