Automated Project Budget Oversight & Notification
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This n8n workflow automates the crucial task of identifying projects with missing budgeted costs from your MySQL database. It then intelligently categorizes these projects by cost center and dispatches personalized email alerts via Microsoft Outlook, ensuring your teams are promptly informed to maintain accurate financial data.
About This Workflow
This powerful n8n workflow acts as your vigilant financial data quality guardian. Scheduled to run weekly, it queries your MySQL project database to pinpoint open, external, and active projects that critically lack a budgeted cost. Upon identifying these data gaps, the workflow intelligently routes each finding based on its associated cost center. Finally, it leverages Microsoft Outlook to send tailored, professional HTML email notifications directly to the relevant cost center teams, alerting them to the number of projects needing budget updates. This automation streamlines project financial oversight, prevents discrepancies, and empowers teams to maintain robust, accurate project costing data effortlessly.
Key Features
- Scheduled Financial Audits: Automatically queries your MySQL database weekly to detect projects with missing budgeted costs.
- Intelligent Cost Center Routing: Dynamically directs alerts to specific cost centers based on project data, ensuring targeted communication.
- Personalized Email Notifications: Sends custom HTML emails via Microsoft Outlook, informing relevant teams about specific data discrepancies, including the count of affected projects.
- Proactive Data Quality Management: Helps maintain high data integrity in project tracking by flagging critical missing financial information.
- Scalable & Adaptable: Easily extendable to include more cost centers or adjust reporting logic as your business needs evolve.
How To Use
- Configure the Schedule Trigger: Set your desired frequency and time for the workflow to run. The default is weekly at 8 AM.
- Connect to MySQL: Provide your MySQL credentials and database details. Ensure the
tabProjecttable exists withcompany,cost_center,status,project_type,is_active, andbudgeted_project_costcolumns. You may need to adapt theSELECTquery if your table or column names differ. - Adjust the Switch Node: Update the
rightValuein each rule to match your actual cost center names (e.g., "Cost Center A", "Cost Center B"). Add or remove branches as needed for all your cost centers. - Set up Microsoft Outlook: For each Outlook node, authenticate your Microsoft Outlook account. Customize the
toRecipientsfield to send emails to the appropriate cost center leads or distribution lists. Review and adjust the HTMLbodyContentandsubjectfor your brand and message.
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Workflow JSON
{
"id": "9216a158-4324-47b4-959d-8024cb33614e",
"name": "Automated Project Budget Oversight & Notification",
"nodes": 15,
"category": "Operations",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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