Problem:
Hi guys, I’m trying to make a workflow that triggers from a google calendar event. However, when I test trigger, it gets me an old event from last month, that I cannot use to set fields in next nodes. When published trigger works fine but when I want to test by running workflow manually, it does not work. Can anyone help me?
My intention:
My workflow looks like this: Someone scheduled meeting with me through google calendar schedule link → n8n gets their email address, name, phone number → then saves this data to a google sheet.
Hi @belville Welcome!
Let me clarify, this is expected behavior from the service, manual runs on google calendar always returns history events NOT LIVE DATA, and to fetch live data try activating your flow , create a calendar event then check the executions tab where the actual real data is present you can pin that data for further flow development.
You don’t really get “tests” working with manual execution for trigger nodes in n8n, they will just return an old event for you to use as example data. The way to “test” these is actually run the workflow and create a new booking in the calendar, or perhaps even use a schedule node beforehand and then just log all calendar events and retrieve all unique events.