{"id":2518,"date":"2014-01-23T23:07:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T07:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainlitter.com\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2014-01-23T23:07:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T07:07:52","slug":"nintex-for-the-win-wiki-page-templating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/2014\/01\/23\/nintex-for-the-win-wiki-page-templating\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintex for the Win &#8211; Wiki Page Templating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you know me at all, by now you&#8217;ll know I&#8217;m a big fan of SharePoint and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintex.com\">Nintex<\/a>. I&#8217;m also a fan of leveraging existing investments in technology and tools and repurposing them. For me, Nintex remains the ITTT (if this, then that) of the SharePoint World.<\/p>\n<p>The other day, a customer came to me with a requirement that has come up a few times. And it occurred to me that with Nintex already in the ole quiver, I could use it to solve this particular problem in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n<h2>What<\/h2>\n<p>Often folks want to build up a stable of Wiki Page Templates. If a SharePoint Wiki is being used to build a knowledge base or Kiosk and the Wiki makes the most sense for simplicity in starting content off and maintaining it easily and organically, then why not use it?<\/p>\n<h2>So What<\/h2>\n<p>The problem is, having and reusing Wiki page template pages is not a point and click type of thing. Explorer view is disabled in Wiki libraries (for good reason) so we can&#8217;t simply copy and paste new Wiki pages in, so that&#8217;s no good. And maintaining a notepad file somewhere with common sections that I would repeatedly cut and paste is no fun either &#8211; particularly if I want Wiki Pages with several layout zones (meaning several cut and pastes just to produce a single Wiki Page with a given style.<\/p>\n<h2>Now What<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>Enter Nintex \u2026 Again. Sigh. When you&#8217;re good, you&#8217;re good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My solution was pretty simple and elegant and Nintex made it even more so as a point and click operation. Here&#8217;s the Short and Sweet Recipe\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You want to have a destination Wiki Library. The main one, the one that users will be using. Often this might even be the Team Site default &#8220;Site Pages&#8221; library. In this case, #1 is the Source library of master wiki pages I want to replicate and #2 (Site Pages) is the Destination library. Heck, I suppose I could even have lots of different destination Wiki libraries if I wanted\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2014\/01\/clip_image001.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"clip_image001\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2014\/01\/clip_image001_thumb.png\" alt=\"clip_image001\" width=\"588\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a sample Wiki Template page all gussied up and ready to be reused (okay, it ain&#8217;t that special yours should be hot! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2014\/01\/clip_image002.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"clip_image002\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2014\/01\/clip_image002_thumb.png\" alt=\"clip_image002\" width=\"494\" height=\"352\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have a &#8220;source&#8221; Wiki Library and build up a series of Wiki Pages with the styling and layout (and content and web parts and so on) that you will want to replicate.<\/li>\n<li>Create a manually initiated workflow (seriously one action, unless you want to get &#8220;fancy&#8221;) that when you right click on a Source Wiki Page of a desired design, it will create a &#8220;copy&#8221; of that Wiki Page in the destination Wiki Library.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2014\/01\/clip_image003.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"clip_image003\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2014\/01\/clip_image003_thumb.png\" alt=\"clip_image003\" width=\"413\" height=\"462\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2014\/01\/clip_image004.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"clip_image004\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2014\/01\/clip_image004_thumb.png\" alt=\"clip_image004\" width=\"444\" height=\"256\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2014\/01\/clip_image005.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"clip_image005\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2014\/01\/clip_image005_thumb.png\" alt=\"clip_image005\" width=\"541\" height=\"202\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a page to try it out\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2014\/01\/clip_image006.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"clip_image006\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2014\/01\/clip_image006_thumb.png\" alt=\"clip_image006\" width=\"516\" height=\"211\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And Bam! Sweet new Wiki page waiting for me in Site Pages! Wiki Template repeat-o-rama.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2014\/01\/clip_image007.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"clip_image007\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/brainlitter\/2014\/01\/clip_image007_thumb.png\" alt=\"clip_image007\" width=\"314\" height=\"148\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simply rename that destination Wiki Page to its desired &#8220;real name&#8221; and starting tweaking away<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Sweet.\u00a0 Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I could have done this without Nintex and simply used SPD. But what is the fun in that? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you know me at all, by now you&#8217;ll know I&#8217;m a big fan of SharePoint and Nintex. 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