n8n: Process automation and integrations

Level: Beginner–Intermediate
Requirements: Basic knowledge of web applications. No programming required.

Unit 1. Introduction to automation with n8n

• What is process automation?
• Business use cases.
• What is n8n and how does it work?
• n8n Cloud and n8n self-hosted.
• Interface and visual editor.
• Workflows, nodes, and connections.
• Triggers and actions.
• Manual and automatic executions.
• Activating and deactivating workflows.
• Execution history.

Practice: Create your first automatic workflow.

Unit 2. Data, logic, and information transformation

• How data flows through a workflow.
• Basic JSON structure.
• Items and properties.
• Data mapping between nodes.
• Expressions in n8n.
• Variables.
• Edit Fields.
• Filter.
• IF.
• Switch.
• Merge.
• Split Out.
• Aggregate.
• Dates, text, and numbers.
• Processing lists of information.

Practice: Receive data, filter it, transform it, and store it automatically.

Unit 3. Application integration

• Credentials and connections.
• Email integration.
• Google Sheets / Excel.
• Google Drive / OneDrive.
• Slack / Microsoft Teams.
• Forms.
• Databases.
• CRM.
• Calendars.
• Automatic notifications.
• Using application-specific nodes.
• Introduction to the HTTP Request node.

Practice: Automate lead creation and tracking.

Unit 4. Building business automations

• Designing end-to-end workflows.
• Scheduled automations.
• Basic webhooks.
• Form processing.
• Document automation.
• Alerts and notifications.
• Automating sales tasks.
• Automating administrative tasks.
• Basic error handling.
• Best practices.
• Workflow documentation.

Final project: Automate a complete business process by connecting at least three services.

Examples of labs

1. Automatically send form information to a spreadsheet.
2. Process emails and attachments.
3. Create automatic notifications in Teams.
4. Automatic lead creation.
5. Generate periodic reports.
6. Automate internal requests.