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This n8n workflow demonstrates how to manage your Qdrant vector store when there is a need to keep it in sync with local files. It covers creating, updating and deleting vector store records ensuring our chatbot assistant is never outdated or misleading. Disclaimer This workflow depends on local files accessed through the local filesystem and so will only work on a self-hosted version of n8n at this time. It is possible to amend this workflow to work on n8n cloud by replacing the local file trigger and read file nodes. How it works A local directory where bank statements are downloaded to is monitored via a local file trigger. The trigger watches for the file create, file changed and file deleted events. When a file is created, its contents are uploaded to the vector store. When a file is updated, its previous records are replaced. When the file is deleted, the corresponding records are also removed from the vector store. A simple Question and Answer Chatbot is setup to answer any questions about the bank statements in the system. Requirements A self-hosted version of n8n. Some of the nodes used in this workflow only work with the local filesystem. Qdrant instance to store the records. Customising the workflow This workflow can also work with remote data. Try integrating accounting or CRM software to build a managed system for payroll, invoices and more. Want to go fully local? A version of this workflow is available which uses Ollama instead. You can download this template here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/189F1fNOiw6naNSlSwnyLVEm_Ho_IFfdM/view?usp=sharing

Who is this for? For developers and organizations that need to combine PDF files. What problem is this workflow solving? PDF file merging problem. What this workflow does Downloads two PDF files from the web. Merges two PDF files into one. Stores the PDF file in the local file system. How to customize this workflow to your needs Open the PDF merge HTTP Request node. Adjust the URL parameter (all endpoints can be found here). Add your secret to the Query Auth account parameter. Please create a ConvertAPI account to get an authentication secret. Optionally, additional Body Parameters can be added for the converter.

This n8n workflow demonstrates how to create an agent using LangChain and SQLite. The agent can understand natural language queries and interact with a SQLite database to provide accurate answers. 💪 🚀 Setup Run the top part of the workflow once. It downloads the example SQLite database, extracts from a ZIP file and saves locally (chinook.db). 🗣️ Chatting with Your Data Send a message in a chat window. Locally saved SQLite database loads automatically. User's chat input is combined with the binary data. The LangChain Agend node gets both data and begins to work. The AI Agent will process the user's message, perform necessary SQL queries, and generate a response based on the database information. 🗄️ 🌟 Example Queries Try these sample queries to see the AI Agent in action: "Please describe the database" - Get a high-level overview of the database structure, only one or two queries are needed. "What are the revenues by genre?" - Retrieve revenue information grouped by genre, LangChain agent iterates several time before producing the answer. The AI Agent will store the final answer in its memory, allowing for context-aware conversations. 💬 Read the full article: 👉 https://blog.n8n.io/ai-agents/

This workflow is a modification of the previous template on how to create an SQL agent with LangChain and SQLite. The key difference – the agent has access only to the database schema, not to the actual data. To achieve this, SQL queries are made outside the AI Agent node, and the results are never passed back to the agent. This approach allows the agent to generate SQL queries based on the structure of tables and their relationships, without having to access the actual data. This makes the process more secure and efficient, especially in cases where data confidentiality is crucial. 🚀 Setup To get started with this workflow, you’ll need to set up a free MySQL server and import your database (check Step 1 and 2 in this tutorial). Of course, you can switch MySQL to another SQL database such as PostgreSQL, the principle remains the same. The key is to download the schema once and save it locally to avoid repeated remote connections. Run the top part of the workflow once to download and store the MySQL chinook database schema file on the server. With this approach, we avoid the need to repeatedly connect to a remote db4free database and fetch the schema every time. As a result, we reach greater processing speed and efficiency. 🗣️ Chat with your data Start a chat: send a message in the chat window. The workflow loads the locally saved MySQL database schema, without having the ability to touch the actual data. The file contains the full structure of your MySQL database for analysis. The Langchain AI Agent receives the schema, your input and begins to work. The AI Agent generates SQL queries and brief comments based solely on the schema and the user’s message. An IF node checks whether the AI Agent has generated a query. When: Yes: the AI Agent passes the SQL query to the next MySQL node for execution. No: You get a direct answer from the Agent without further action. The workflow formats the results of the SQL query, ensuring they are convenient to read and easy to understand. Once formatted, you get both the Agent answer and the query result in the chat window. 🌟 Example queries Try these sample queries to see the schema-driven AI Agent in action: Would you please list me all customers from Germany? What are the music genres in the database? What tables are available in the database? Please describe the relationships between tables. - In this example, the AI Agent does not need to create the SQL query. And if you prefer to keep the data private, you can manually execute the generated SQL query in your own environment using any database client or tool you trust 🗄️ 💭 The AI Agent memory node does not store the actual data as we run SQL-queries outside the agent. It contains the database schema, user questions and the initial Agent reply. Actual SQL query results are passed to the chat window, but the values are not stored in the Agent memory.

This n8n workflow takes in a document such as a research paper, marketing or sales deck or company filings, and breaks them down into 3 templates: study guide, briefing doc and timeline. These templates are designed to help a student, associate or clerk quickly summarise, learn and understand the contents to be more productive. Study guide - a short quiz of questions and answered generated by the AI Agent using the contents of the document. Briefing Doc - key information and insights are extracted by the AI into a digestable form. Timeline - key events, durations and people are identified and listed into a simple to understand timeline by the AI How it works A local file trigger watches a local network directory for new documents. New documents are imported into the workflow, its contents extracted and vectorised into a Qdrant vector store to build a mini-knowledgebase. The document then passes through a series of template generating prompts where the AI will perform "research" on the knowledgebase to generate the template contents. Generated study guide, briefing and timeline documents are exported to a designated folder for the user. Requirements Self-hosted version of n8n. Qdrant instance for knowledgebase. Mistral.ai account for embeddings and AI model. Customising your workflow Try adding your own templates or adjusting the existing templates to suit your unique use-case. Anything is quite possible and limited only by your imagination! Want to go fully local? A version of this workflow is available which uses Ollama instead. You can download this template here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VV5R2nW-IhVcFP_k8uEks4LsLRZrHSNG/view?usp=sharing

Who is this for? For developers and organizations that need to convert PPTX files to PDF. What problem is this workflow solving? The file format conversion problem. What this workflow does Downloads the PPTX file from the web. Converts the PPTX file to PDF. Stores the PDF file in the local file system. How to customize this workflow to your needs Open the HTTP Request node. Adjust the URL parameter (all endpoints can be found here). Add your secret to the Query Auth account parameter. Please create a ConvertAPI account to get an authentication secret. Optionally, additional Body Parameters can be added for the converter.

Who is this for? This workflow is for everyone who wants to have easier access to their Odoo sales data without complex queries. Use Case To have a clear overview of your sales data in Odoo you typically needs to extract data from it manually to analyse it. This workflow uses OpenAI's language models to create an intelligent chatbot that provides conversational access to your Odoo sales opportunity data. How it works Creates a summary of all Odoo sales opportunities using OpenAI Uses that summary as context for the OpenAI chat model Keeps the summary up to date using a schedule trigger Set up steps: Configure the Odoo credentials Configure OpenAI credentials Toggle "Make Chat Publicly Available" from the Chat Trigger node.

Who is this for? For developers and organizations that need to convert image files to PDF. What problem is this workflow solving? The file format conversion problem. What this workflow does Downloads the JPG file from the web. Converts the JPG file to PDF. Stores the PDF file in the local file system. How to customize this workflow to your needs Open the HTTP Request node. Adjust the URL parameter (all endpoints can be found here). Add your secret to the Query Auth account parameter. Please create a ConvertAPI account to get an authentication secret. Optionally, additional Body Parameters can be added for the converter.

Who is this for? For developers and organizations that need to protect PDF files with the password. What problem is this workflow solving? PDF file protection problem. What this workflow does Downloads the PDF file from the web. Protects PDF file with the password. Stores the PDF file in the local file system. How to customize this workflow to your needs Open the HTTP Request node. Adjust the URL parameter (all endpoints can be found here). Add your secret to the Query Auth account parameter. Please create a ConvertAPI account to get an authentication secret. Change the password in the parameter UserPassword Optionally, additional Body Parameters can be added for the converter.

Purpose This workflow allows you to import any workflow from a file or another n8n instance and map the credentials easily. How it works A multi-form setup guides you through the entire process At the beginning you have two options: Upload a workflow file (JSON) Copy workflow from a remote n8n instance If you choose the second option, you get to choose one of your predefined (in the Settings node) remote instances first, then it retrieves a list of all the workflows using the n8n API which you then can choose a workflow from. Now both initial options come together - the workflow file is being processed In parallel all credentials of the current instance are being retrieved using the Execute Command node The next form page enables a mapping of all the credentials used in the workflow. The matching happens between the names (because one workflow can contain different credentials of the same type) of the original credentials and the ones available on the current instance. Every option then shows all available credentials of the same type. In addition the user has always the choice to create a new credential on the fly. For every option which was set to create a new credential, an empty credential is being created on the current instance using the n8n API. An emoji is being appended to the name, which indicates that it needs to be populated. Finally the workflow gets updated with the new credential ID’s and created on the current instance using the n8n API. Then the user gets a message, if the process has succeeded or not. Setup Select your credentials in the nodes which require those Configure your remote instance(s) in the Settings node. (You can skip this step, if you only want to use the File Upload feature) Every instance is defined as object with the keys name, apiKey and baseUrl. Those instances are then wrapped inside an array. You can find an example described within a note on the workflow canvas. How to use Grab the (production) URL of the Form from the first node Open the URL and follow the instructions given in the multi-form Disclaimer Security: Beware, that all credentials are being decrypted and processed within the workflow. Also the API keys to other n8n instances are stored within the workflow. This solution is primarily meant for transferring data between testing environments. For production use consider the n8n enterprise edition which provides a reliable way to deploy workflows between different environments without the need of manual credential mapping.

Who is this for? For developers and organizations that need to convert PDF files to PDFA for long term archiving. What problem is this workflow solving? The file format conversion problem. What this workflow does Downloads the PDF file from the web. Converts the PDF file to PDFA. Stores the PDFA file in the local file system. How to customize this workflow to your needs Open the HTTP Request node. Adjust the URL parameter (all endpoints can be found here). Add your secret to the Query Auth account parameter. Please create a ConvertAPI account to get an authentication secret. Optionally, additional Body Parameters can be added for the converter.

Who is this for? For developers and organizations that need to convert XLSX files to PDF. What problem is this workflow solving? The file format conversion problem. What this workflow does Downloads the XLSX file from the web. Converts the XLSX file to PDF. Stores the PDF file in the local file system. How to customize this workflow to your needs Open the HTTP Request node. Adjust the URL parameter (all endpoints can be found here). Add your secret to the Query Auth account parameter. Please create a ConvertAPI account to get an authentication secret. Optionally, additional Body Parameters can be added for the converter.