Split nested data into individual items
Acme Retail's order export contains five orders, each with a nested items array of line items. The warehouse system needs one item per row on the pick list — you can't process nested arrays directly. You need to break them out.
You'll import orders with nested items arrays and add a Split Out node configured on that array, so five parent orders expand into thirteen individual line items while keeping order-level fields on every row.
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