Nintex Insights - Ending Beacon

Use the Nintex Insights - Ending beacon action A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows. to log the end 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.

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

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. Select the Stage Name used in a Nintex Insights- Beginning Beacon action.

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

Nintex Insights- Ending beacon action fields, buttons, 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.	n/a
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. Add beacon fields and selections Field/ selection Description Name Name of beacon. Value Value of beacon. Delete Deletes the beacon added.	n/a
	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.