Why in n8n, when using triggers that rely on poll time, such as Google Sheets, Google Drive, Airtable, and similar ones, do they not work automatically in active mode but work manually, both on a personal server and on n8n cloud?
Hello,
I suppose that when you click “Execute Node” or “Execute Workflow”, you’re triggering the polling check manually, it immediately makes a request to the external service and returns results.
But when you activate the workflow, n8n runs it based on a predefined interval.
I think some triggers let you choose the polling interval (e.g. every 1 min, 5 mins, etc.).
I find some info here
Hope it helps!
They should work normally.
In my case. I use the poll time to receive gmail in every minutes.
It will being executed after new email with-in 1 minute.
Here is the thing we need to notice.
It doesn’t mean every minute will have a execution.
only there is a new email coming into your inbox will trigger
It just check it every minute I guess.