QS101 – “Uploading the European report”: missing step for the binary field name

n8n Academy QS101: n8n Quickstart
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Section

Quickstart (QS101) → Generating Reports → Part 2: Uploading the European report

Problem

Following the steps exactly, the final UploadReport (HTTP Request) node fails on execute:

NodeOperationError: The item has no binary field ‘’ [item 0]

Cause

Step 17 says to enable Send Body and set the content type to n8n Binary File, but it never mentions the Input Data Field Name. That parameter stays empty, so the node looks for a binary field named '' and can’t find the CSV — which ConvertToCSV actually outputs under the property data.

Suggested fix

Please add a sub-step after step 17:

Set Input Data Field Name to data (the binary property produced by the ConvertToCSV node).

Reproduced on self-hosted n8n 2.26.8; adding data resolves it immediately.

Thanks!

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Hi @Tessub

Thanks for the feedback. I’ve included the updates in the text.

cheers,