Nintex Insights- Beginning Beacon

Use the Nintex Insights - Beginning Beacon action A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows. to log the start of a process stage A particular portion in a workflow containing actions with a specific purpose to send data to Nintex Insights. A process stage is always identified by a start (Nintex Insights - Beginning beacon action) and an end (Nintex Insights - Ending beacon) point. in your workflow. By using variables, you can also add beacons You use beacons to capture specific data in your workflow and pass to Nintex Insights for analytic purposes. and pass to Nintex Insights for analytic purposes.

For example, you have a workflow that aims to collect results of a hospital survey, and the workflow is triggered to start when a user submits an online Nintex - Form .

In designing the workflow:

  • You select Nintex - Form as the start event. You design a form and name it "Survey for hospital patients". The response to each question is captured and stored in variables which we will use as beacons.
  • You define a particular process stage in the workflow. You use the Nintex Insights - Beginning Beacon action as the start point and the Nintex Insights - Ending Beacon as the end point of the process stage.
  • In the process stage, you assign a beacon for each survey response. For example, the configurations of the first beacon are as follows:
    • Name: Name of respondent
    • Value: Respondent
    • This is a variable that holds the data entered by a user in the Patient's Name field of the online form.

For more information about this example, see: Example: Configure the Nintex Insights actions in Nintex Automation Cloud and add a data connection in Nintex Insights.

Note: 

To identify the start and end of a process stage, you must use these two actions together:

  • Nintex Insights - Beginning beacon action: Logs the start time.
  • Nintex Insights - Ending beacon action: Logs the end time.

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

Before you begin: 

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Configure the Nintex Insights - Beginning beacon action

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

  2. Type a Stage Name for your process stage.
  3. Type a Name and Value for a beacon.
  4. Click Add beacon to add more beacons.
  5. Specify an Expected Duration (in minutes) for the process stage to run.

Nintex Insights - Beginning beacon action fields and selections

Section

Field

Description

Variable types

  Stage Name

A name to identify a process stage within the workflow.

Every process stage is defined by a start and end point, the former specified by the Nintex Insights- Beginning Beacon action and the latter by the Nintex Insights - Ending Beacon action. You must use the same Stage Name for each action.

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Beacons 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 in the process stage.

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  Expected Duration (in minutes) Expected duration for the process stage to run. This number is measured against the actual duration that takes the process to complete. For example, you expect this process stage to complete within 1 minute and you can test that number in the report in Nintex Insights. Integer

Caution: If a file/folder that's used in a workflow is moved, renamed, or deleted, any workflows that use that file/folder will not start or will fail. Make sure you keep the paths in your workflow configurations up to date.