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How to authenticate user at runtime?
Hi all, I am new to n8n but I it looks great! The examples I have seen from Nate thus far show how you create and n8n workflow (e.g. to manage calendar), but the user has to manually configure the workflow (at design time) to use their credentials. This works well if there is only one user, however if you are rolling out a solution across an organisation (e.g. 100 users) then this is a big probelm. Does anyone know how you can create a generic workflow that allows users to connect their account (e.g. Google Workspace) at runtime and grant the necessary permissions for the workflow to run? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Spencer P.S Big shout out to Nate for providing these great tutorials!!!
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@Case Wegner Thanks for the reply, the license is not too much of a problem I guess - because ultimately if there is a commercial conflict the n8n team seem to be asking you to contact them to provide more context, so hopefully they will play nice. I am still not clear on how I can proceed. Essentially I am buildnig a web-app where the user will login etc. Once authenticated I then want to allow them to invoke n8n workflows that utilise their credentials. If I manually set up a workflow at design time to use their credentials this will work fine, but I need this to be a data driven approach meaning user credentials are passed to n8n at runtime. Is that possible? For example - if I write an app that has the ability to monitor a user's inbox, how would I apply this to all users working for a company? If you have any ideas please let me know. Thanks
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