suggestion: just make the whole workflow UI more transparent, so that the reference hyperlinks stand out.
n8n’s moat is rapid visual understanding, so this would be a very cool improvement.
It would be amazing to have a visual way to know exactly how many references are in the workflow, in order to make organized improvements. suppose you make a modification on one node, but by having a toggle switch to visualize these references, you could instantly know what impact would those changes have on the workflow’s executions to ensure quality.
Yes this would be incredibly helpful, I’ve just come here to raise the same request, and sad to see it isn’t popular.
For complex workflows in which simply referencing $json from the previous step isn’t enough, and you need to reference various previous nodes, it’s currently really difficult to see where those values are used across the workflow to update them.
The only option I can think of thus far bar looking through each node is downloading the JSON and searching for references, which is not a great user experience.
Potential duplicate of Button to see all nodes references
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Thanks for the reply.
I hope the n8n team notices this improvement opportunity on v3. we know n8n has a flowchart coding style, so knowing the interrelationships between node variables is a fundamental need for complex workflows.
Cheers!