SharePoint 2013 – Nintex – Store Task ID in Collect Data Task, Request Approval and Request Review

Nintex Tasks

Nintex Workflow has various actions that create tasks:

• Request Data
• Request Approval
• Request Review
• Assign Flexi task
• Assign to-do task

Store Task IDs in

All of these actions have the Store Task IDs in setting.

This is very useful when you create for example an approval task and you want to collect the comment form the task.

All you have to do is create a variable to store the task ID in and the above drop down is populated. So I’m creating a TaskID variable as shown below:

For request data my TaskID variable appears in the drop down, but for all of the other ones Task ID remains hidden.

Your Solution

Then I created my variable again and this time as an integer and now my variable appears in all types of task actions.

Now my task ID appears. I’m not sure what the reasoning is behind the List Item Id type only being supported for Request Approval but from now onwards I’ll only create a variable of the Integer type as Integer seems to always work.

Pieter Veenstra

Is your business still running on paper trails, sprawling Excel files, or ageing Access databases? There's a better way — and I can show you exactly what it looks like. I'm the Technical Director of Vantage 365, a Microsoft solutions consultancy working with clients across the UK, the Netherlands, and worldwide. For over 30 years I've been turning messy, manual business processes into clean, automated systems that save time, reduce errors, and give teams the visibility they need to make better decisions. SharePains is not just any blog run by a Microsoft MVP. Have you ever used Try-Catch in Power Automate? The original post about Try-Catch in Power Automate can still be found on this site, https://sharepains.com/2018/02/07/try-catch-finally-in-power-automate-flow/ Or have you ever used the Pieter’s method to avoid variables and speed up your flows? https://sharepains.com/2020/03/11/pieters-method-for-advanced-in-flows/ You can contact me using contact@sharepains.com

Pieter Veenstra

Is your business still running on paper trails, sprawling Excel files, or ageing Access databases? There's a better way — and I can show you exactly what it looks like. I'm the Technical Director of Vantage 365, a Microsoft solutions consultancy working with clients across the UK, the Netherlands, and worldwide. For over 30 years I've been turning messy, manual business processes into clean, automated systems that save time, reduce errors, and give teams the visibility they need to make better decisions. SharePains is not just any blog run by a Microsoft MVP. Have you ever used Try-Catch in Power Automate? The original post about Try-Catch in Power Automate can still be found on this site, https://sharepains.com/2018/02/07/try-catch-finally-in-power-automate-flow/ Or have you ever used the Pieter’s method to avoid variables and speed up your flows? https://sharepains.com/2020/03/11/pieters-method-for-advanced-in-flows/ You can contact me using contact@sharepains.com