Task forms

When you upgrade workflows from Nintex for Office 365 to Nintex Automation Cloud task forms included in the Assign a task and Start a task process task actions are upgraded as well.

Task forms created in the following form designers can be upgraded to Nintex Automation Cloud:

  • Old responsive forms designer

  • Classic forms designer

  • New responsive forms designer

Note: 

  • List forms cannot be upgraded.

After upgrading if a control in an upgraded form is not supported a placeholder control is inserted in its place. This enables you to locate the control if it is used to build any rules.

The Forms upgrade details report which you can view after upgrading shows whether the upgrade was successful or requires further review. View the form post upgrade details report for details.

View form upgrade details after upgrading

  1. In Nintex Automation Cloud, open the workflows page.

  2. Open the upgraded workflow that contains the task form that was upgraded.

  3. Click on the task action to open the action configuration panel.

  4. In the form field, click Edit form.

    The form opens in the forms designer.

  5. On the top right of the toolbar, click Form upgrade details.

Form controls upgrade details

The table below shows the list of form controls and their upgrade details. Click on the links to see detailed documentation about the controls that are available in Nintex Automation Cloud.

Check out the Nintex product roadmap in Nintex community to see what's coming to Nintex Automation Cloud.

Note: Form controls with CSS formatting upgrades to the equivalent control in Nintex Automation Cloud.

Form control Form control in Nintex Automation Cloud Upgrade details
Repeating section

✔

Available in Nintex Automation Cloud but not upgraded. See details in the Upgrade details column.

Repeating section control is available in Nintex Automation Cloud. You can add the Repeating section control to the form after you upgrade if required.

See, Repeating section.
Web request Data lookup

Upgrades to Data lookup control.
People picker

People

Upgrades toPeople control
Rich text Label

Upgrades to Label control.
Calculated value Label

Upgrades to Label control.

Prefix/suffix will be placed into the label.
Choice Choice - Multiple

Choice - Single

Single/Multiple choice controls are available.

Does not support List (Multiple).
Date/Time Date/time  
Geolocation Geolocation  
Image Image  
Label Label

 
Multiline text Text - Long  
Panel Group Upgrades to group control.
Single line of text Text - Short

Upgrades to Text short control.
Yes/No Yes/no  
List lookup Data lookup

Upgrades to Data lookup form control.

A Data lookup has to be created.
Button

Button

Upgrades to Button control
Managed metadata Not available  
Page break guide Not available  
Hyperlink control Not available  

Form functions upgrade details

Function Nintex Automation Cloud function Upgrade details
avg avg  
contains contains  
convertToDate convertToDate  
ConvertToString convertToString  
count count  
date date  
dateAddDays dateAdd Upgrades to dateDiff
dateAddHours dateAdd Upgrades to dateDiff
dateAddMinutes dateAdd Upgrades to dateDiff
dateAddMonths dateAdd Upgrades to dateDiff
dateDiffDays dateDiff Upgrades to dateDiff
dateDiffHours dateDiff Upgrades to dateDiff
dateDiffMinutes dateDiff Upgrades to dateDiff
endsWith endsWith  
If ifElse Upgrades to IfElse
isDate isDate  
length length  
max max  
min min  
not not  
parseLookup parseLookup  
replace replace  
round Round  
startsWith startsWith  
sum sum  
toLower toLower  
toTitleCase toTitleCase  
toUpper toUpper  
trim trim  
userProfileLookup userProfileLookup  
Abs abs  
formatDate formatDate  
Insert insert  
IsMemberOfGroup isMemberofGroup  
isNullOrEmpty isNullOrEmpty  
IsNumeric / Number isNumber  
NewGuid newGuidAsString Upgrades to newGuidAsString
Not not  
PadLeft padLeft  
PadRight padRight  
Power power  
Remove remove  
Substring substring  
and Not available Can be achieved with &&
currentRowNumber

Not available

  
currency Not available  
equals

Not available

 Can be achieved with ==
greaterThan Not available Can be achieved with >
greaterThanOrEqual Not available Can be achieved with =>
inArray Not available Can be achieved with collectionContains
lessThan Not available Can be achieved with <
lessThanOrEqual Not available Can be achieved with <=
lookup Not available

Nintex Automation Cloud uses Data lookups.

or Not available Can be achieved with ||
IsCurrentUser Not available  
rows Not available  
XmlDecode Not available  
XmlEncode Not available  

Form references upgrade details

Reference Nintex Automation Cloud reference Upgrade details
Current date Available  
Current time Available  
Current user (Display name) Not available Will include ‘Current User (First name)’ and ‘Current User (Last name)’ as separate properties.
Current user (Login name) Not available Covered in ‘Current user (Email)’
Current user (Email) Not available  
Is Display Mode Not available  
Is Edit Mode Not available  
Is New Mode Not available  
Item Display Name Not available  
Item URL Not available  
List ID Not available  
List Name Not available  
Site Collection ID Not available  
Site ID Not available  
Site Name Not available  
Site URL Not available  
App created by Not available  
App modified by Not available  
Attachments Not available  
Created Not available  
Created by Not available  
Folder child count Not available  
ID Not available  
Item Child Count Not available  
Modified Not available  
Modified by Not available  
Version Not available