How to Publish Nintex Forms through PowerShell
Publishing
Nintex form through PowerShell, was a challenge for me during last few weeks.
After consulting Nintex team they have provided many valuable information
related to the same topic.
I will
go through each and every information which I have gathered. Finally I was able
to publish the Nintex Form through PowerShell
Initially
Nintex team has provided details to the in built web service for publishing a
workflow.
Above
link explains all available methods within the service
The moment I tried to access
the web service via browser, I got an error saying "End Point Not Found".
But later I found a valuable post on Nintex community by mattbriggs who
has overcome same issue through Visual Studio Solution in his blog post Named
as “Publish
a
Form
Using the Nintex Forms On Prem 2013 Web Service“.
Unfortunately in my corporate environment as a policy we are
not publishing any custom build WSP solutions in to our farm.
In the Same page sonisick has
provided an amazing solution to implement the same in PowerShell.
I was able to use same functions as it was and implemented a
new function to get XML Form downloaded to a custom folder.
All credits should go to sonisick and mattbriggs I’m publishing
their methods along with the additional form download functionality which I was
implemented using their references.
PowerShell Code Function Definitions
If I say reused method, that means it was copied from reply
of sonisick
from the above specified
blog post
Function Name
|
Purpose
|
Create-Folder
|
If not exists, Create a new folder to hold downloaded XML file
|
DecodeXMLString
|
Decode serialized JSON output in to XML string
|
Nintex-PublishFormToNewList
|
Publish the XML form in to destination SharePoint List (reused same
method from Sonisick’s reply )
|
Get-FormDigest
|
Reused method
|
Nintex-GetJsonFormFromXml
|
Reused Method
|
Read-FileBytes
|
Reused Method
|
Get-SPListBylistName
|
This is modified method from above Post to get SPList object from
List name (instead of internal name of the list)
|
checkFileExists
|
Used to check XML file already generated or not for same list
|
Get-NintexFormXML
|
Implemented to download the XML File from the List
using GetFormXML web service method.
|
Publish-NintexForm
|
Reused Method – Get-NintexFormXML method included to get
XML File instead of hardcoded path
|
Again Please Note Below Solution I have created as part of Creating Sub Sites and Publishing their Nintex Forms via PowerShell. Some of the parameters might not required for you to use within this Script
Creating Sub Sites and Setting Master Page through PowerShell, I have discussed on my previous Post
To Publish the Nintex Form you can use the function as follows Download Entire Script from here
Publish-NintexForm -templateSiteURL $sourceSiteURL -destinationSiteURL $subSiteUrl -listNameToPublishForm $listNameToPoblushForm -FolderPath $xmlFileFolderPath -initiatorCredentials $Credentials
Download Entire Script from here
Again Special Thanks should go to sonisick and mattbriggs
Hope this might help someone.
Cheers
Tharindu
