From the course: SharePoint Workflow Automation: Nintex
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Bring external data into a workflow
From the course: SharePoint Workflow Automation: Nintex
Bring external data into a workflow
- Nintex has some pre-configured connectors for web services such as Bing Maps or social apps like Yammer, and line of business apps like ERP and CRM systems. You can access those by clicking on the 'Store' icon on the ribbon. And so in this video, we're just going to use the one for Bing Maps but I just wanted to let you know, see there's one for Salesforce, there's MailChimp, Weather Underground, Twitter, these types of things. But we're just going to use the one for Bing Maps because it doesn't require any credentials or anything like that, and it's just a nice way to demo this. So if I click on 'Variables' up on the ribbon, you can see that I've already created the variables that we're going to need. So again, with this pre-configured connector, Bing is going to be asking for, what variable do you want to use for distance, what variable of you want to use for duration, etc. So this will all become clear when we actually go through and we configure this. So, let's look at our…
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