New Blog Post Action on SharePoint Online and Office 365 Using Nintex Workflows

Welcome to an article on how to use the action "Office 365 new blog post" on SharePoint Online and Office 365 using Nintex Workflows. This article will display the action “Office 365 new blog post”. Here we will see how to configure this action and use it for our work.

Using this action you can publish blog posts by using a simple action on Nintex.

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 new blog post” action by right clicking 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Configuration
  
  
  1. Blog site URL - Provide the site URL of the blog.
  2. Post Title - Specify the title of the post.
  3. Post Content - Provide the content for the post.
  4. Publish Date - Provide the date on which the post should be published.
  5. Publish - Choose if you want the post to be published or saved as a draft.
  6. Categories - Provide the category if your posts falls under something.
  7. Username - Provide the site user name.
  8. Password - Specify the password.
  9. Link to blog post - Here you can add a variable to store the link to a blog post.
  10. Permalink to blog post - Here you can add a variable to store the permalink to blog post.
  11. Post ID - Here you can add a variable to store the post’s ID.
  12. Successful post - Here you can add a variable to store the value ‘Yes’ if all the matched items are checked out.
      
      
• Now we have configured our workflow, let’s go ahead 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 publishing the posts online making it easier for you to handle the posts by a manual process.

So in this article we saw how to post blogs using the action Office 365 new blog post 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. Until then, keep learning!