Hi there, I have don't know how to build an App that can do some processing to the excel file upload, could you kindly give me some ropes? Thanks. Ideally in my App the user can upload an excel file, and then click a button, the file will be sent to a workflow as the input. In the workflow, I’m co…

Hi @LeoLiao Thanks for reaching out! This certainly sounds doable :blush: You can trigger a workflow from your app using a webhook . Then, you can add a response to your workflow, that sends the modified data back to the app. Here's an example of a query calling a workflow from an app and passing …

Upload Excel to Workflow via App for data processing

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Tess December 18, 2023, 10:06pm 3

Here's an example of using Retool Storage + Retool Email:

Get the base64 of the parsed file data returned from my workflow using this approach:

Save that base64 data to Retool Storage:

Send as an email attachment:

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Upload Excel to Workflow via App for data processing

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