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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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Intermediate Workflow Automation with n8n

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