Grist

Grist combines the flexibility of a spreadsheet with the robustness of a database to organize your data, your way.

Credentials

You can find authentication information for this node here.

Basic operations

• Create rows in a table
• Delete rows from a table
• Read rows from a table
• Update rows in a table

Example usage

This workflow allows you to insert and update data from a table in Grist. You can also find the workflow on n8n.io. This example usage workflow uses the following nodes:

• Start
• Grist

The final workflow should look like the following:

1. Start node

The start node exists by default when you create a new workflow.

2. Grist node (Create)

This workflow assumes there is a document with a table in your Grist workspace.

This node will create a new record in a table.

1. First enter your credentials for the Grist node. You can find out how to do that here.
2. Select 'Create' from the Operation dropdown list.
3. Enter that ID of your document into the Document ID field.
4. Enter the ID of your table in the Table ID field.
5. Under Fields to Send click the Add Field button twice.
6. For the first field, choose Name from the Field ID dropdown, and type a name in the Field Value.
7. For the second field, choose Link from the Field ID dropdown, and enter a URL in the Field Value.
8. Click on Execute Node to run the node.

Here is an example of how the configuration should look:

And here's the result of adding the record to the Grist table:

3. Grist1 node (Get All)

This node will list all the records with a particular Name value.

1. Select the credentials that you entered in the previous node.
2. Select the 'Get All' option from the Operation dropdown list.
3. Click on the gears icon next to the Document ID field and click on Add Expression.
4. Select the following in the Variable Selector section: Nodes > Grist > Parameters > docId.
5. Click on the gears icon next to the Table field and click on Add Expression.
6. Select the following in the Variable Selector section: Nodes > Grist > Parameters > tableId.
7. Click on Add Option and select 'Filter' from the dropdown list.
8. Click the Add Filter button.
9. Select Name from the Column dropdown.
10. Type a name in the Values field.
11. Click on Execute Node to run the node.

In the screenshot below, the node only returned the record with the name 'Grist':

4. Grist2 node (Update)

This node will update the Name field of the record that we received from the previous Grist node.

1. Select the Grist1 node in your workflow and click 'Duplicate Node'. Now you won't need to specify the credentials, Document ID, and Table ID again.
2. Double click the newly duplicated node (Grist2) to edit it.
3. Select 'Update' from the Operation dropdown list.
4. Click on the gears icon next to the Row ID field and click on Add Expression.
5. Select the following in the Variable Selector section: Nodes > Grist1 > Output Data > JSON > id.
6. Under Fields to Send click the Add Field button.
7. Choose Name from the Field ID dropdown, and type a name in the Field Value.
8. Click on Execute Node to run the node.

Here is an example of how the configuration should look:

The result is that the Name in the first record changed from 'Grist' to 'Grist Labs':

FAQs

How to get the Row ID?

To update or delete a particular record, you need the Row ID. There are two ways to get the Row ID.

Create a Row ID column in Grist

Create a new column in your Grist table with the formula $id.

Use the Get All operation

The Get All operation returns the Row ID of each record along with the fields.

You can obtain it with the expression {{$node["GristNodeName"].json["id"]}}.

How to filter records when using the Get All operation?

• Click on Add Option and select 'Filter' from the dropdown list.
• You can add filters for any number of columns. The result will only include records which match all the columns.
• For each column, you can enter any number of values separated by commas. The result will include records which match any of the values for that column.