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JMPJavier Marín Pérez Castellano
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Technical reports: from 1–2 hours to about 10 minutes

I built an n8n workflow that reads three files, checks the information and generates a Word document for review.

Screenshot of the n8n editor showing the Automated Reports workflow from left to right.

Context

Preparing each report by hand took one to two hours of copying and pasting.

Responsibility

I worked as the sole contributor: I selected the tool, defined the format and built the workflow.

Constraints

  • Budget: no additional budget.
  • Team size: one person.
  • Timeline: one to two weeks.
  • Infrastructure: the existing infrastructure.

Decisions

  1. I evaluated Power Apps and selected n8n for its free access and visual representation of the process.
  2. I separated the workflow into extraction, parsing, checking and insertion into Word.
  3. I inspected the XML structure when Word fragmented the placeholders.

Outcome

With the workflow, I reduced the manual preparation of each report from 1–2 hours to about 10 minutes of review.

Verification

I tested the workflow with several reports and different outputs.

Learning

I learned how Word structures its documents with XML.