Nintex Insights - Beacon

Use the Nintex Insights - Beacon action A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows. Actions are the steps the workflow performs to complete a process. to log beacons Used to capture specific data in your workflow and pass to Nintex Insights for analytic purposes. from anywhere in your workflow and send to Nintex Insights for analytic purposes.

For more information about the Nintex Insights connector, go to Nintex Insights.

Before you begin: 

In the context of Nintex Insights, you use beacons to capture specific data in your workflow and pass to Nintex Insights for analytic purposes.

A process stage is a particular portion in a workflow containing actions with a specific purpose to send data to Nintex Insights. The process stage is always identified by start (Nintex Insights - Beginning beacon action) and end (Nintex Insights - Ending beacon) points.

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Configure the Nintex Insights - Beacon action

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

  2. Specify a Name for the beacon.
  3. Specify the Value.
  4. Click Add beacon if you want to add more beacons.

Nintex Insights - Beacon action fields, buttons, and settings

Field

Description

Variable types
Name

Name of a beacon to use for passing data from the workflow to Nintex Insights.

 

 Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection
Value Value of the beacon. Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection
Add beacon

Click to add more beacons.

Field/ selection Description
Name Name of beacon.
Value Value of beacon.
Delete Deletes the beacon added.
n/a