Create Navigation In SharePoint Online And Office 365 Using Nintex Workflows

Welcome to an article on how to use action Office 365 Create Navigation in SharePoint Online and Office 365 using Nintex Workflows, This article will be display the action “Office 365 Create Navigation”. Here we will see how to configure this action and use it for our work.

Using this action you can create top links and Quick launch links running this action.

Let’s see the implementation of this functionality.

• I have created a document library “Dev Document”. In Dev Document, Click on the Library tab on the Top ribbon and click on Nintex Workflows.
  
  
  
  
• You will see the following screen, to create a new workflow.
  
• Click below “Create new workflow”.
  
  
• You will come to the design phase of the Nintex workflows.
  
  
  
  
• Add the action, “Office 365 Create Navigation” action by right click on the workflow or by dragging and dropping from the left toolbox.
  
  
• Now let’s configure it.
  
• When you double click on the action the following screen opens up.
  
  
  
  
  

1. Destination site URL: Provide the site URL.
2. Navigation Type: Choose whether you want it to be a quick launch or top link bar.
3. Text to Display: Provide a text to be displayed as navigation.
4. Address: Provide the link address you want to link.
5. SharePoint Online URL: Provide the domain URL.
6. Username: Provide the site user name.
7. Password: Specify the password.
8. Creation successful: Here you can add a variable to store the value as yes if the workflow is successful.
9. Link Title: Here you can add a variable to store the link title.
10. Link URL: Here you can add a variable to store the Link Url.

• Now we have configured our workflow, let’s go and publish it to use it.
  
• Click on Publish on the left corner of the ribbon of Nintex Designer.
  
  
• You will see the screen below.
  
  
  
• Give your workflow a name
  
• Description
  
• Choose your task list where it should store the tasks; it will be Workflow Tasks by default.
  
• Choose your history list where it should store the history logs; it will be Workflow History by default.
  
• Start Options,
  
  
  • You can either start your workflow manually.
    
  • Or you can start your workflow automatically when an item is created, I will select this option to create automatically when an item is created.
    
  • Or you can start your workflow automatically when an item is modified.
    
    
• Click on Publish
  
• Your workflow will get published.

Once you configure, the workflow will automate the process of creating new links on top or left navigations as per your scenario.

So in this article we saw how to create Navigation using the action Office 365 Create Navigation in SharePoint online and Office 365 using Nintex Workflows. We will see more new articles on the actions of Nintex Workflows in the other parts of the article.