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Nate - show us your video workflow!
@Nate Herk, your videos just keep getting better and better. I would love to know how to create videos like yours with screenshot fly-bys, bangin' graphics and animations, etc.. I feel bad even asking given how much you already share, but I sure would like to produce such high-quality vids!
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Good to know...
I’ve been building a growing number of automations in n8n lately and I’m starting to think more seriously about long-term structure and best practices. Most of what I’m doing is real-world workflow automation: lead intake, enrichment, outbound email, voice agent triggers, scheduling, status updates, logging, etc. It’s working well, but I want to make sure I’m building the right way as things scale. I’d love to hear how more experienced n8n users approach things like: - Managing environment variables across environments - Structuring workflows vs. breaking them into sub-workflows - Inter-workflow communication patterns - Handling retries and preventing duplicate processing - Error handling strategies beyond the default error workflow - Custom execution logging (for example, pushing structured logs into a CRM or database) - Versioning and promoting workflows from dev to production - Performance considerations when automations start to grow - Monitoring client applications Basically: What are the lessons you only learn after running n8n in production for a while? If you’ve built larger systems or run client-facing automations, what would you do differently if you were starting over? Appreciate any patterns, pitfalls, or “wish I knew this earlier” advice.
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@Maryam Digital thank you
0 likes • Feb 22
@Sayujya Gupta Regarding re-authentication - I ran into this problem too even though I set my expirations to 90 days or even never expire. What I discovered was my Google OAuth app was still in TESTING mode in Google Cloud. When it’s in testing, Google automatically expires the refresh token after about 7 days. So even though everything looks fine, n8n eventually can’t refresh the token anymore and the workflow fails. Once I switched the OAuth consent screen to PRODUCTION, that 7-day expiration stopped happening. Since then, I haven’t had the random re-authentication issues with Drive or Gmail.
Retell partying like it's 2024
I've been writing an outreach workflow that uses Retell as the outbound call voice agent. When I tried to schedule an appointment, it kept saying there was no availability even though my calendar is open. When I looked at the payload, I saw "2024" as the date. I asked antigravity about it and it said "That's a common LLM issue — Retell's model thinks it's 2024 because of training data cutoff. The fix is to tell the agent what today's date is." Hahahaha!
Retell partying like it's 2024
CRUD funtionality for Google Sheets
Hey guys, I'm wondering if there's an easier way to (robustly) perform CRUD funtionality on a Google Sheet. By "robustly" I mean returning proper status codes and error handling. What I built seems like overkill! 😊
CRUD funtionality for Google Sheets
0 likes • Feb 5
Okay - I've got it fix. I was doing way too much!!! I had to step back and start over. Sometimes, it's the best way. 🙂
Download n8n workflow without sensitive information
Hey y'all, what's the best way to download a workflow without the sensitive information? I used the "download" functionality but I still see keys and urls and things. I want to share more things in this community but it's a hassle to strip all the sensitive data out of my json files.
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Richard Thurgood
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Software architect with decades of experience, driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, building scalable solutions, and exploring AI's potential.

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