TinyPNG - Compress a PNG image

Important: This connector and its actions have been removed from Nintex Workflow and can now be found in Nintex Gallery.

Use the TinyPNG - Compress a PNG image action A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows. Actions are the steps the workflow performs to complete a process. to compress a PNG (.png) image. This is useful if you want to make a website faster and use images with the best compression (in bytes).

For more information about TinyPNG, go to TinyPNG.

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TinyPNG - Compress a PNG image action fields and settings

Configure the TinyPNG - Compress a PNG image action

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

Select a Connection. If you do not have a connection, see Add a connection.

Select or insert a variable for the Image.
Create or select a variable for the output.

TinyPNG - Compress a PNG image action fields and settings

Section	Field	Description	Variable types
(Unlabeled)	Connection Credentials and other settings that enables workflows to communicate with external systems, services, or applications. It's required to pass data between the workflow and the indicated service, which could be a cloud service, business application, or content store.	The TinyPNG connection to use to compress a PNG image. To refresh the available connections, click .	(n/a)
(Unlabeled)	Image	The variable containing the image file to compress. Note: Your tenancy's default file storage location must be configured to hold files for later reference by the workflow. This location is used for uploaded files and for files stored as output from actions.	File
Output	Compressed image details	Stores the result of the action as an object. See Developer API for more information. The following values are returned: Input Stores the result of the action as an object. The following values are returned: Size: (Integer) The size of the input file in bytes. Type: (Text) The type of the input file for example "image/png". Output: Stores the result of the action as an object. The following values are returned: Size: (Integer) The size of the output file in bytes. Type: (Text) The type of the output file, for example "image/png". Width: (Integer) The width of the compressed image. Height: (Integer) The height of the compressed image. Ratio: (Decimal) The compression ratio, file output size divided by file input size. For example input size = 433805, output size = 4316. Ratio: (433805/4316) = 0.0099. URL: (Text) The URL link to the compressed file.	Object

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Field

Description

Variable types

(Unlabeled)

Connection Credentials and other settings that enables workflows to communicate with external systems, services, or applications. It's required to pass data between the workflow and the indicated service, which could be a cloud service, business application, or content store.

The TinyPNG connection to use to compress a PNG image.

To refresh the available connections, click .

(n/a)

(Unlabeled)

Image

The variable containing the image file to compress.

Note: Your tenancy's default file storage location must be configured to hold files for later reference by the workflow. This location is used for uploaded files and for files stored as output from actions.

File

Output

Compressed image details

Stores the result of the action as an object. See Developer API for more information. The following values are returned:

Input Stores the result of the action as an object. The following values are returned:
- Size: (Integer) The size of the input file in bytes.
- Type: (Text) The type of the input file for example "image/png".
Output: Stores the result of the action as an object. The following values are returned:
- Size: (Integer) The size of the output file in bytes.
- Type: (Text) The type of the output file, for example "image/png".
- Width: (Integer) The width of the compressed image.
- Height: (Integer) The height of the compressed image.
- Ratio: (Decimal) The compression ratio, file output size divided by file input size. For example input size = 433805, output size = 4316. Ratio: (433805/4316) = 0.0099.
- URL: (Text) The URL link to the compressed file.

Object