Is there a bug in n8n? Column to Match On not working


i did exactly what it asked but it’s not working

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The error describes the issue exactly - you need to provide a value for the ‘Context (using to match)’ field that’ll be used to match the row in the spreadsheet you’d like to retrieve.

Perhaps you’re looking for other functionality - could you describe the expected behavior for your use case?


well ive gotten the node to work now. but I have problem with the results showing up on the google sheet.

to give you some context-
i want to create a bot that helps to generate content for posting on LinkedIn

it will fill up the ‘posting’ column on google sheet with the generated content based on the input provided in the ‘context’ column

Because the ‘context’ column is served to be an idea or what to generate for the ‘posting’ column

Only generate content for the’ posting’ column if the ‘context’ column is not empty

Once the content generation has been done under ‘posting’ column, it will be moved to schedule the post on linkedin for posting based on the time and date stated in the google sheet

this is the json file. I’m not too sure which node and its parameters went wrong :frowning: could you pls guide me.

now the issue im facing is that … there’s nothing showing up in the google sheet

Is ‘context’ a unique identifier for your rows? If not, it’ll append/update in the first location where it finds this value.