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Creating a new n8n workflow with a trigger

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Creating a new n8n workflow with a trigger

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- [Instructor] Let's build a new workflow from scratch. In N8N, you can either work in your personal environment or in a project environment. In each of these environments, you can set up workflows, credentials, and see the executions of any of your workflows. And these are kept separate so that you don't have accidental sharing of credentials. Since I'm starting up a brand new project, I'll open my project and then click on Create Workflow. The first thing I'll do is change the name of the workflow. I'll call it Volunteer Lookup. And then I'll start with a trigger. So I'll click Add First Step. This opens up a side panel, and from here I can choose what trigger I want to start with. Options include manual triggers, event triggers, schedule triggers, webhook calls, form submissions, et cetera, et cetera. If we click into On App Event, you see a long list of events from different services that can trigger actions. Under here, you'll find Slack, Google Workplace, Microsoft 365, and…

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