Manual Trigger

Runs the flow on clicking a button in n8n with the specified input data

Manual Trigger

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Summary

Emit a manual trigger event with optional JSON input data to start the workflow when the user clicks a button in the n8n editor.

Inputs

  • input — JSON data to send as the input when manually triggering the workflow

Output shape

a single data item containing the parsed JSON input

If the input is empty or invalid JSON, it will cause an error; otherwise returns one JSON-formatted data item as output.

Examples

Example 1: Triggering a workflow with custom JSON data manually

Set the 'Input' parameter to a valid JSON object (e.g., {"message":"Hello world"}). When clicking the manual trigger button, the workflow executes with this data as the starting input.

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