Using a Binary data in Airtable node

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Hi folks, I’m creating an N8N flow that basically converts transcript from json to txt file and then adds the file to a “transcript” field on Clients Airtable base. I’m running into an issue where I can’t use Binary data like Schema. It says “No fields - Items(s) exist, but they’re empty”. I’ve done some research on this and it seems to be the limitation with binary data. But I can’t seem to find a workaround for this issue.

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It looks like your topic is missing some important information. Could you provide the following if applicable.

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Could you share your workflow JSON?

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Hey Hrishikesh, I cant seem to paste my workflow’json in this text, it says 3000 characters is the limit. Ive seen solutions that suggest using a Merge but that doesnt work either

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In the Airtable node, change ‘Transcript file’ value {{ $binary.data }}

Or even better reference the node by it’s name so your workflow doesn’t break if you add something in between:
{{ $('Convert to file').item.binary.data }}

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Thanks I’ll try that now

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