You probably want to use the Split In Batches node after your Get new invoices node to split the execution in batches of 1 and then build a loop for each invoice.
Then in the loop for each invoice, fetch the line items and build the email. This is a bit tricky as n8n would run the Gmail node once for each item it receives. So before passing on all your line items to the Gmail node, you would need to aggregate them into a single item. This does unfortunately require a bit of code. I’ve done something similar a while back and you should be able to adjust the example as needed:
Hope this helps! Let us know if you get stuck somewhere!
@MutedJam his solution is the best solution in most cases.
However if you cannot use split in batches for some reason. It is also possible to group your lines by Invoice creating the body of the mail like @MutedJam suggested for each invoice and Merge them together with the Invoice headers.
The result would be an item per invoice with a field containing the body of the email.
So n8n processes one record at a time which is kind of the problem here. Because of that, you’d by default get one email per invoice item here.
So what the Function code here would do is build the HTML body of an email:
This would be the key part:
for (item of items) {
email_html += `<div>
<h1>${item.json.title}</h1>
<p>${item.json["content:encodedSnippet"]}</p>
<p><a href="${item.json.link}">Link</a></p>
</div>
`;
}
Here we take the title, content:encodedSnippet and link fields from each item (which would be our invoice items) and add them to a single new item. Your fields will most likely have different names so you would need to adjust this part a little bit. If you could share the current output of your Get line-items node we might be able to help you with this.
Hi @xewonder, I am afraid I am not entirely sure what you mean by XML JSON. Are you just trying to wrap XML data inside the existing n8n JSON structure? That’s what the XML node would do, so make sure to check that out.
You’d still need a little bit of code to convert multiple n8n items into a single n8n item. Here’s an example workflow doing the below:
Get some dummy data using the HTTP Request + Item Lists nodes
Convert all incoming items into the line_items property of a single new item respecting n8n’s data structure using the Function node
Convert our data into an XML structure using the XML node
Create a binary file using the Move Binary Data node
You can then download the XML file generated by this workflow or automatically process it like any other binary file in n8n.
