Nintex K2 Cloud release notes

New Features

Localization

Nintex K2 Cloud is now also available in Arabic, French, German, and Spanish languages delivering a fully localized automation experience. You can set the design time and runtime translation language allowing you to use the product in your preferred supported language. See Localization for information about localization in your environment and fall-back behavior.
The following additional features are available in Localization:
- Enable or disable translations for views and forms in the Designer by selecting or deselecting the Translations property of the view or form.
- Enable or disable translations per product for Workspace and Management, Runtime Forms, and the Designer in Management>Translation Settings.
- The Find uses button in Forms Translation>Translations allows you to view a list of instances for which a translation has been used within a view or form.
- The Filter For Language option in SmartObject text and memo type properties allows you to translate data within a SmartObject at runtime.
- Use the _ui-culture query string parameter to test a specific language translation on a view or form at runtime.
- Create translation keys for properties that are mapped from the Context Browser in the Designer.

SmartForms
- Dynamic Chart control added that allows you to use a SmartObject as its data source to display customized data across various chart types, including area, bar, column, line, and pie charts.
- Progress control added that allows you to display custom progress steps based on a pre-configured data source.
Workflow designer
- Workflow design time versioning is introduced with this version of the product. You now have the option to save a draft (minor) version of the workflow. You can manage minor and major versions from the Designer and Workflow Designer, allowing you to have a clean design time experience, while all major versions are managed in Management.
SharePoint
- SharePoint:
  - Microsoft has announced the deprecation of the SharePoint App Add-In Model, which is used to integrate the product with SharePoint Online.
    Note: The App Add-In model support only affects SharePoint Online
    To continue using the product with SharePoint Online, you can now migrate your Nintex K2 for SharePoint solutions to Nintex K2 Cloud (SPFx) app for SharePoint Online which supports SharePoint Framework (SPFx).

Integration

Nintex RPA Broker service added to the list of service types. Use this service to integrate the product with Nintex RPA.
The OData endpoint broker now supports OData version 4.
The REST endpoint broker now supports OpenAPI Specification (OAS) v3.

Enhancements

SmartForms
- Toolbar Button control - New toolbar icons added to the list of options for the Toolbar Button control such as Attachment, Comment, Export and more. You can also use the Set a control's properties rule action to set these icons at runtime. New icon sets have also been implemented for the SharePoint 2013 theme and Platinum theme.
- Dynamic theme - The Dynamic theme has been updated to introduce several key enhancements:
  - Material focused styling: The theme now embraces a material design approach, improving the overall aesthetic and user experience across all devices, including mobile.
  - Font update: Fonts have been updated to the modern Poppins Google font, with revised sizing for better readability.
  - Chart series colors: The color palette for chart series has been updated with more vibrant, saturated colors, eliminating the previous desaturation to brown tones.
  - Toolbar icons: All toolbar icons have been converted to SVG format for sharper resolution and better scalability.
  If you want to use the previous version of the Dynamic theme instead of the new modernized theme, you can download the CSS from Nintex Community and use it as a custom theme.
- Control styles - Base icon colors have been added to the style profile designer to customize icon appearance. You can also use control-specific colors to further customize the appearance of the control.
- Icon style aware - The icons of some controls such as picker, worklist, multi-select, calendar, rich text, drop-down, lookup, view expansion, dialog, tree, tree widget, paging, and toolbar have been updated to SVG format, ensuring sharper resolution and better scalability. The Dynamic theme has been applied to these icons and you can customize certain elements of the icons further by using the style profile.
- Optimized SQL functions to improve performance for Identity Container lookups.
- Upgraded Micros to .NET 8
Workflow Designer
- The time interval boxes in steps such as the Task, Timer, and Call Sub Workflow have been enhanced to allow you to expand and collapse the boxes for ease of use.
Integration
- Oracle 21c and 23ai support, see known issue.

Behavioral changes

SmartForms
- Legacy theme - When creating a new form, the "Use Legacy Theme" check box is now unchecked by default. New forms are automatically assigned the modern Dynamic theme, although you can still choose to apply any of the legacy themes if preferred. The default style profile for the Dynamic theme includes standardized color settings such as main accent, page background, and content background to ensure a consistent appearance across new forms. Existing forms are not affected by this change. If you want to see the legacy style profile behavior with enhanced modern themes, check out the Nintex Gallery for examples.
- Style profile - When the "Use Legacy Theme" check box is selected on a form and a style profile is added, the check box is now automatically unchecked. This eliminates the need for manual intervention. The same behavior applies when switching style profiles: if a style profile is linked to a form and the "Use Legacy Theme" option is checked, selecting a different style profile will automatically uncheck the "Use Legacy Theme" check box.

Deprecated functionality and components

Internet Explorer 11 is unsupported and the Designer and runtime functionality is blocked.

Considerations

Microsoft Azure Active Directory is now Microsoft Entra ID
Applications using Azure Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) for authentication and authorization capabilities have been migrated to the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL). See Migrate applications to the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for more information.
The Style Profile Designer is not available in Internet Explorer (IE), as it uses CSS custom properties (CSS variables) which is not compatible with Internet Explorer. We suggest you use a modern browser for the K2 Designer, such as Google Chrome.
The jQuery version used in SmartForms has been upgraded to jQuery 3.6.3 and all jQuery libraries updated to reduce vulnerabilities and ensure your solutions are secure. See jQuery upgrade for SmartForms for more information and how it affects existing solutions.
Download the enhanced Package and Deployment tool from https://<runtimeurl>/Management/Remote. Once downloaded, log a ticket with Nintex Customer Central to provide your public IP address ranges to K2 Operations. This allows access to your K2 Cloud environment from your network. Please see the Package and Deployment Considerations topic for further considerations about working with the Package and Deployment tool.
If you are using K2 Cloud for SharePoint, you must update the app and run through the K2 Cloud for SharePoint registration wizard after upgrade. See the following steps:
1. Click the K2 Cloud for SharePoint app from the Site Contents page or Quick Launch menu of the app catalog site and run through the Registration Wizard by clicking the Registration Wizard link in the Administration section to register the app with your K2 environment's URL. (If you do not see the Registration wizard, make sure you are on the app catalog).
2. (This step is only required if there were changes to the K2 Cloud for SharePoint app. See the K2 for SharePoint release notes for information about previous releases and the latest version.)
  
  Deploy the app to one or more site collections using the Manage App Deployments page in SharePoint. A link to this page is provided on the K2 Cloud for SharePoint settings page. It is recommended you do this by paths rather than individual URLs, but individual URLs give you more control regarding which site collections have K2 integration. You should deploy as a SharePoint Administrator if you are deploying to multiple site collections.
SharePoint integration - See Nintex K2 Cloud (SPFx) app overview for considerations when using the legacy Nintex K2 Cloud for SharePoint app and the new Nintex K2 Cloud (SPFx) app.
If you replace an existing Task step with a new Task step in a workflow, and the Form rules of the existing SmartForm Task remain but it shows the new Task’s name, follow the following article to successfully fix the issue: Known Issue : Old Workflow Task name in SmartForm overwritten by new Task
Google is rolling out changes to block third-party cookies in the Google Chrome browser. This affects SharePoint integration which loads Nintex K2 forms in an iframe. As a result, you may experience issues when navigating to a SharePoint integrated form. See Troubleshooting for more information and resolution to the third-party cookie phaseout.

Known Issues

Issue: When you configure a specific custom workflow step created for a single SQL Service Instance and Service Object in a workflow, the configuration panel allows you to select a service instance that is not linked to the specific custom workflow step.

Bug Fixes

Each release includes all bug fixes from preceding releases; see the release notes for previous releases for more details on bug fixes in previous versions. Update 22 includes the following additional bug fixes:

All bug fixes in K2 Cloud Update 21 Fix Packs 1-10.
When creating a Endpoint Webservice service instance, an “Error - "VALIDATION The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.” error occurred.
When the browser language is set to a non-English language and you attempt to delete an instance in Management, the confirmation pop-up did not close after confirming the deletion.
When you try to open a workflow after upgrading your environment, a “Bad syntax caused the request to fail.” error occurred.
When creating a form with a state and then running it with parameters, the state drop-down appeared too small on the Run with Parameters page.
When localization features are disabled and the browser language is set to English, error messages on the environment displayed in German.
When trying to deploy a workflow after upgrading your environment, a “The schema for XmlField 'Iinvalid.” error occurred.
When starting up your environment, the K2 service crashed and an “Authentication of the HTTPS connection timed out.” error occurred.
When creating a REST service instance, a “(500) Internal Server Error” error occurred.
When creating a SmartObject from a SQL Server table that contains primary keys and GUIDs, and then you execute the SmartObject’s Create method, only the GUID was populated.
When using a List View with paging and filtering, and then you enter a search, clear it, and refresh the view, the page input control stopped functioning.
When trying to submit a request on a form, an “Unable to read data from transport connection: The connection was closed.” error occurred.
When SmartObjects generated for a SharePoint library are stored in a category, and then you package and deploy them to another environment, the names for the categories were not the same.
When working in your environment , the CPU and memory utilization was at 100%
When a workflow has multiple tasks with the same name and you setup an exception user, the tasks and email notifications are not handled correctly.
When a Form contains a File Attachment control which is marked as mandatory, and a file is uploaded and the form is left idle before clicking Create, the validation incorrectly passed and the file was not uploaded.
When a workflow containing a merge step is deployed, and then you edit the workflow and select the merge step, a “The step's Merge tab has an empty Link To field” error occurred.
When trying to deploy a package, a “xxxView: Merge failed to update 1 Item(s) for xxx” error occurred.
When a workflow contains a multi-step and a step is added and removed from the multi-step, a '"Manager Approval" contains a reference to a removed reference field"' error occurred.
When a list view with a Date column contains empty cell values, and you try to sort the column, the values were not sorted correctly.
When a workflow includes a Send Email step with Hebrew text in the Body, and a reference is added next to the text, the Hebrew text was incorrectly formatted in the body.

Fix Packs

There are currently no available Fix Packs for Cloud Update 22

K2 Cloud Update 21, November 2024

Considerations

Microsoft Azure Active Directory is now Microsoft Entra ID
Applications using Azure Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) for authentication and authorization capabilities have been migrated to the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL). See Migrate applications to the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for more information.
The Style Profile Designer is not available in Internet Explorer (IE), as it uses CSS custom properties (CSS variables) which is not compatible with Internet Explorer. We suggest you use a modern browser for the K2 Designer, such as Google Chrome.
The jQuery version used in SmartForms has been upgraded to jQuery 3.6.3 and all jQuery libraries updated to reduce vulnerabilities and ensure your solutions are secure. See jQuery upgrade for SmartForms for more information and how it affects existing solutions.
Download the enhanced Package and Deployment tool from https://<runtimeurl>/Management/Remote. Once downloaded, log a ticket with Nintex Customer Central to provide your public IP address ranges to K2 Operations. This allows access to your K2 Cloud environment from your network. Please see the Package and Deployment Considerations topic for further considerations about working with the Package and Deployment tool.
If you are using K2 Cloud for SharePoint, you must update the app and run through the K2 Cloud for SharePoint registration wizard after upgrade. See the following steps:
1. Click the K2 Cloud for SharePoint app from the Site Contents page or Quick Launch menu of the app catalog site and run through the Registration Wizard by clicking the Registration Wizard link in the Administration section to register the app with your K2 environment's URL. (If you do not see the Registration wizard, make sure you are on the app catalog).
2. (This step is only required if there were changes to the K2 Cloud for SharePoint app. See the K2 for SharePoint release notes for information about previous releases and the latest version.)
  
  Deploy the app to one or more site collections using the Manage App Deployments page in SharePoint. A link to this page is provided on the K2 Cloud for SharePoint settings page. It is recommended you do this by paths rather than individual URLs, but individual URLs give you more control regarding which site collections have K2 integration. You should deploy as a SharePoint Administrator if you are deploying to multiple site collections.
If you replace an existing Task step with a new Task step in a workflow, and the Form rules of the existing SmartForm Task remain but it shows the new Task’s name, follow the following article to successfully fix the issue: Known Issue : Old Workflow Task name in SmartForm overwritten by new Task
SharePoint integration - See Nintex K2 Cloud (SPFx) app overview for considerations when using the legacy Nintex K2 Cloud for SharePoint app and the new Nintex K2 Cloud (SPFx) app.
Google is rolling out changes to block third-party cookies in the Google Chrome browser. This affects SharePoint integration which loads Nintex K2 forms in an iframe. As a result, you may experience issues when navigating to a SharePoint integrated form. See Troubleshooting for more information and resolution to the third-party cookie phaseout.

Bug Fixes

Each release includes all bug fixes from preceding releases; see the release notes for previous releases for more details on bug fixes in previous versions. Update 21 includes the following additional bug fixes:

All bug fixes in K2 Cloud Update 20 Fix Packs 1-13.
When using the 'Save As' feature to create a copy of a workflow and save it in a category containing spaces in its name, the spaces were replaced with underscores, causing workflows to appear under separate folders in Management.
When attempting to close the Workflow Designer after editing a workflow in a SharePoint list/library, a 'potentially dangerous Request.Path value' error occurred.
When emails are sent from a Task Step or an Email Step in a workflow, they intermittently failed.
Fixed an issue where a user could be added to a role multiple times.
When using a rule to filter values, and the filter output mapping is mapped to a Text Box control, incorrect values were displayed in the control at runtime.
When a List view contains a Count and you deselect the Count's Visible property check box, the label was displayed at runtime.
When changing the Minimum and Maximum property value of a Slider control, the control did not reflect the changes.
When a form contains tabs and you click between tabs, keyboard shortcuts for refreshing the page stopped working.
Fixed an issue where IP addresses were appearing on error messages.
When logging into your environment using Azure Active Directory credentials , a “No valid key mapping found for securityToken” error occurred.
When generating a form or view in a generic list in a SharePoint Online site collection based on the Czech or Slovak language, a "Thread 1: Cannot close stream until all bytes are written." error occurred.
Fixed an issue where checkboxes were not appearing in Management.
When using the Attachment control to upload and save an image, then trying to access the image from the SmartObject, the image did not load.
When changing the ‘UseBundledFile’ setting to True in the web.config file, a server error occurred when attempting to open K2 sites.
When editing a workflow in the Application page in SharePoint, and you close the Workflow Designer, a "MaxUrlLength Value" error occurred.
When a workflow contains a Loop step that starts instances of another workflow, the K2 Host Server stopped running at runtime.
When a workflow contains a Create Reference step that is configured using a SharePoint SmartObject that contains a LoadWithoutId method, when returning the output, the values were incorrect.

Fix Packs

The following Fix Packs apply to this version of K2 Cloud. To determine the version and Fix Packs applied to your environment, please see the KB article KB003537: How to determine the installed K2 software version, Cumulative Updates, and Fix Packs for K2 Platform and K2 Cloud

Fix Pack	Release Date	Details
Fix Pack 10	July 2025	When using the PDF Converter>Create PDF from URL method and the generated PDF contains a List view, the List view column headers were not aligned correctly with the column values. When using the search function in the Worklist control, the search function intermittently failed to return any results despite valid search criteria.
Fix Pack 9	July 2025	When configuring an Execute another rule rule action on a form, saving the rule and reopening the rule, the rule action changed to On a subform, execute another ruleand the configuration could no longer be edited. When a workflow containing a space at the end of the workflow name was packaged and deployed to another environment, then trying to edit the workflow, a duplicate workflow was created with version is 0.1 (Draft version). When a form with a non-Base Default state, is opened as a subform on a parent view, the inherited rule of the default state disappeared when editing the parent view.
Fix Pack 8	June 2025	When a workflow contains a multi-step that includes a SmartObject step with a reference, and the SmartObject step is copied and pasted in the canvas, the reference from the original SmartObject step was also copied.
Fix Pack 7	May 2025	When using an SQL Server service to return large amounts of data in a List view, slow performance was experienced. Follow the steps below to successfully apply the fix: New service instances – Set the Use SQL Paging setting for the SQL Server service instance to true in Management > Integration > Service Instance. Existing service instances – Contact Nintex Customer Central for assistance to enable the Use SQL Paging setting for the service instance. When a workflow contains a Loop step, and a subsequent Set Variables step is linked to the Loop step, a “Missing reference at ItemReferenceField 'Value'” error occurred when trying to deploy the workflow. When a workflow contains a Send Email step with HTML text in the Text Editor, and multiple variables are added to the editor, the HTML was changed. When a workflow contains multiple Task steps, you view the form integration configuration of one Task step and then view the form integration configuration of another step, the configuration of the previous task was displayed in the current selected task. When trying to edit a previous version of a workflow in the File>Info tab in the Workflow Designer, an error occurred. When using the If function in the email Text Editor of a Send Email step in a workflow, deleting the Then or Else condition, the If function became uneditable.
Fix Pack 6	April 2025	When a SharePoint Document Library>Get Folders SmartObject method is used in a rule in a view, an 'Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation' error occurred for non-admin users trying to open a form at runtime. When a workflow includes a Send Email step with text in the rich text editor, and you edit the font style and switch to the HTML editor, the font changes were not visible.
Fix Pack 5	March 2025	When the Out of Office worklist feature is enabled, the Out of Office person and delegated people did not receive an email notification when a task was assigned. When a workflow includes a Send Email step with text in the email editor, and an item reference is added, the whitespace between the item reference and the text was removed. When trying to access the View Flow report of a workflow, a “You don’t have permissions to view this page” error occurred intermittently, even if the person had permissions.
Fix Pack 4	March 2025	When a workflow contains a Task step with an email reminder, a CC email recipient is added when editing the workflow. When a workflow contains nested IF statements in a Set Variable step, and the environment is upgraded, a blank page appeared when trying to edit the workflow. When a workflow contains a Task step, and HTML text is copied and pasted into the steps email text editor, some of the pasted text was removed.
Fix Pack 3	March 2025	When trying to access a category that contains a deployed workflow in the Designer and your environment language is set to French, German, Spanish, or Arabic, an "Invalid version format. Expected format is "major.minor" error occurred.
Fix Pack 2	February 2025	When trying to edit a workflow in Designer after upgrading your environment, a “ERROR Bad syntax caused the request to fail” error occurred. When using Package and Deployment to deploy a workflow to a target destination, a “Http error 400 savejson” error occurred during deployment. When starting an instance of a workflow in Management using the Workflow REST API and adding serialize JSON into a data field, an "Input String was not in correct format" error occurred.
Fix Pack 1	January 2025	When a workflow with a Get List Item Reference and Update List Item step is packaged and then deployed to a different environment using Package and Deployment, the Update List Item step mappings are missing when editing the workflow in the target environment. When using the Workflow REST API to retrieve a Task List, an “unauthorized 401” error occurred. When a form contains an Auto-Complete control and you try to scroll through the suggestions on a mobile device, not all the options were shown. When the Prevent XSS property is enabled on the Data Label control in a view, and the control contains a script, the script still executed. When trying to start a workflow that contains an IPC event, a “8042 IPC Failed to Start: [domain\user] does not have rights to Start Process” error occurred in Management. After upgrading to the latest version of the product, when calling the Workflow Management API > ZoneCalculateEvent method, an “Unhandled Exception” error occurred.

K2 Cloud Update 20, October 2023

Considerations

The Style Profile Designer is not available in Internet Explorer (IE), as it uses CSS custom properties (CSS variables) which is not compatible with Internet Explorer. We suggest you use a modern browser for the K2 Designer, such as Google Chrome.
The jQuery version used in SmartForms has been upgraded to jQuery 3.6.3 and all jQuery libraries updated to reduce vulnerabilities and ensure your solutions are secure. See jQuery upgrade for SmartForms for more information and how it affects existing solutions.
Download the enhanced Package and Deployment tool from https://<runtimeurl>/Management/Remote. Once downloaded, log a ticket with Nintex Customer Central to provide your public IP address ranges to K2 Operations. This allows access to your K2 Cloud environment from your network. Please see the Package and Deployment Considerations topic for further considerations about working with the Package and Deployment tool.

If you are using K2 for SharePoint, you must update the app and run through the K2 for SharePoint registration wizard after upgrade. See the following steps:
1. Click the K2 for SharePoint app from the Site Contents page or Quick Launch menu of the app catalog site and run through the Registration Wizard by clicking the Registration Wizard link in the Administration section to register the app with your K2 environment's URL. (If you do not see the Registration wizard, make sure you are on the app catalog).
2. (This step is only required if there were changes to the K2 for SharePoint app. See the K2 for SharePoint release notes for information about previous releases and the latest version.)
  Deploy the app to one or more site collections using the Manage App Deployments page in SharePoint. A link to this page is provided on the K2 for SharePoint settings page. It is recommended you do this by paths rather than individual URLs, but individual URLs give you more control regarding which site collections have K2 integration. You should deploy as a SharePoint Administrator if you are deploying to multiple site collections.
If you replace an existing Task step with a new Task step in a workflow, and the Form rules of the existing SmartForm Task remain but it shows the new Task’s name, follow the following article to successfully fix the issue: Known Issue : Old Workflow Task name in SmartForm overwritten by new Task