Waiting for a response
By choosing the Send and Wait for a Response operation, you can send a message and pause the workflow execution until a person confirms the action or provides more information.
Response Type
You can choose between the following types of waiting and approval actions:
- Approval: Users can approve or disapprove from within the message.
- Free Text: Users can submit a response with a form.
- Custom Form: Users can submit a response with a custom form.
You can customize the waiting and response behavior depending on which response type you choose. You can configure these options in any of the above response types:
- Limit Wait Time: Whether the workflow will automatically resume execution after a specified time limit. This can be an interval or a specific wall time.
- Append n8n Attribution: Whether to mention in the message that it was sent automatically with n8n (turned on) or not (turned off).
Approval response customization
When using the Approval response type, you can choose whether to present only an approval button or both approval and disapproval buttons.
You can also customize the button labels for the buttons you include.
Free Text response customization
When using the Free Text response type, you can customize the message button label, the form title and description, and the response button label.
Custom Form response customization
When using the Custom Form response type, you build a form using the fields and options you want.
You can customize each form element with the settings outlined in the n8n Form trigger's form elements. To add more fields, select the Add Form Element button.
You'll also be able to customize the message button label, the form title and description, and the response button label.