Responed a binary file from chat trigger

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I am getting below error while doing chat trigger.
[No response. Make sure the last executed node outputs the content to display here]

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  • n8n version: 1.83
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Not sure what is your objective here.
Assuming you may want to respond with a specific file (from Google Docs), here is an example:

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Thanks for reply.
I want to return in chat window with the binary file generated by convert to file node.

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… so that the user can do what exactly? I do not think chat supports binary data in the ways you expect it to. Hence you’d need a workaround. And this depends on your objective.

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@Olek ,
Is it possible to provide status update into chat trigger while the workflow is executing?

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Did you manage to resolve your intial question or how is this question connected with the previous one (if it is)?

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@Olek ,
I am uploading the binary in google drive and sending the url as response.
Now once the binary is generated I want to process it further to ai agent for other task. So I want to update the status in the chat trigger response.

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I think you need a different topic for this new question to not confuse future readers.

Also please mark the post containing solution as such, also for the future readers’ sake.

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