N8n Quickstart: Core Data Transformation Basics
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This N8n workflow serves as an excellent starting point for new users, guiding them through the very quick quickstart tutorial. It demonstrates fundamental concepts of manual workflow triggering and basic data extraction and preparation using sample customer data.
About This Workflow
Dive into the essentials of N8n with this quickstart workflow, designed to introduce beginners to the platform's core capabilities. While intentionally incomplete to serve as a tutorial foundation, it showcases how to manually initiate a workflow, retrieve sample customer information from a dedicated training datastore, and then transform that data. You'll learn how to rename and map data fields (like id to customer_id and name to customer_name), preparing it for subsequent operations in more complex workflows. It’s the perfect first step to understanding data flow and manipulation within N8n.
Key Features
- Manual Workflow Initiation: Easily trigger the workflow with a single click for testing and learning.
- Sample Data Access: Utilize a dedicated training datastore to fetch realistic-looking customer data without external integrations.
- Basic Data Transformation: Learn to rename and map incoming data fields to a desired format for consistency.
- Foundational Learning: A perfect stepping stone for new users to grasp key n8n concepts before building advanced automations.
How To Use
- Manual Trigger: This workflow starts with a
When clicking "Test Workflow"node. Simply click 'Test Workflow' in the n8n editor to manually initiate the process. - Customer Datastore: The
Customer Datastorenode is pre-configured togetAllPeopleandreturnAllrecords, providing a dataset of fake customer information. No further configuration is needed here for the quickstart. - Edit Fields (Set Node): The
Edit Fields1(Set) node takes the raw data from theCustomer Datastoreand renames specific fields. It mapsidtocustomer_id,nametocustomer_name, andnotestocustomer_description. You can inspect the output of this node to see the transformed data.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
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"id": "b4ded79d-929d-4dd9-8f0c-59c49aeac6fc",
"name": "N8n Quickstart: Core Data Transformation Basics",
"nodes": 18,
"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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