What's a smart way to feed a CSV or Exel file to a Workflow - looking for ideas

[atwork1]

Describe the question

I want to feed a workflow with data from a file. Like a CSV.

What would be a convienient / smart way to go about it?

Possibilities I’m thinking of are:

• Schedule trigger that watches a specific folder for new files

How are you doing it? (ding)

Information on your n8n setup

• n8n version: current
• Database (default: SQLite): default
• n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): default
• Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): Docker
• Operating system: Ubuntu VM

[Jon]

Hey @atwork1,

What is the plan with the data from the file? You could use a Google Drive / Onedrive trigger or fetch the file from a web service or FTP server on a schedule or even send the file to a webhook there are a bunch of options really it all depends on what you want to use it for.

[atwork1]

I’m just fishing for ideas.

Most workflows use data that is already well formed and in the “cloud” .

Pushing Data from a file to a wf on the other hand feels so forced.
Using different Folders on OneDrive is probably the best solution for my setup.

Maybe once the forms trigger can handle files, one could select the WF and upload a file that way within a form.