N8n using field ID instead of field names, possible?

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Are you using our SaaS platform (Baserow.io) or self-hosting Baserow?

Self-hosted

What do you need help with?

When I map fields from Baserow in n8n, getting records and updating them, then I can drag and drop these baserow fields to map. But they’re based on names which is really annoying. The moment I change a fieldname in Baserow, my automation in n8n breaks.

When I use Baserow with Webstudio, I’m using ?user_field_names=false. Anything similar possible in n8n with the default baserow node?

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@joffcom would be the best person to answer this question. :blush:

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Can you share what your automation is doing? We show the field name in the UI but in the background we use the ID so it could be that changing the fields to use an expression and putting in the ID will do the job.

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Heyy @joffcom!

I made a quick screenrecording, I think that’ll help better to explain it.

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At this point I’ve learned how to use the HTTP Request node which allows it based on ID. But still I think it’d be nice to have this in the default n8n node of Baserow.