Display HTML outputs and forms to the user throughout the entire workflow

[mefrankyt]

Dear community,

Sorry for the beginner question, but I can’t seem to find a solution anywhere.

I’m coming from Mindstudio, where it’s pretty easy to guide the user through a longer process, collect data through form inputs, and display information within the workflow using the “Display Content” node.

In n8n, I currently don’t know how to continuously show forms and HTML outputs to the user within one workflow.

For example: there are four different forms in a row. These are processed by an HTTP request and a model, and the result is then displayed in an HTML node. Afterwards, more data should be collected, processed, and displayed again.

However, after the four forms, the workflow ends for the user. How can I most easily show them the results from the HTML node that comes two nodes later?

The same question applies for how I can let the user input and view additional data after the HTML node.

Thanks a lot for your help!

[mefrankyt]

I’ve made quite a bit of progress with my research in the meantime. As a new community member, I first had to be approved.

I’m currently working on creating a simple HTML frontend and will give it a try with that.

It seems to me that this is probably the only reasonable way to send and receive content to and from the client.

[Parintele_Damaskin]

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