IT Operations
Create, Update and Read a Workspace User
Create a Google Workspace user, update their surname, and retrieve the user.
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Create a Google Workspace user, update their surname, and retrieve the user.
Setup
Enable the Google Admin SDK Directory API for your Workspace. Use an administrator account with permission to create, update and read users.
In Open Flow, create a secret Variable containing a JSON text body with the new user’s primaryEmail, name.givenName, name.familyName, and password, and bind it to Create the user → Body. For example, replace each placeholder in {"primaryEmail":"person@example.invalid","name":{"givenName":"First","familyName":"Last"},"password":"REPLACE_WITH_PASSWORD"}. Obtain a current OAuth access token with scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.user and bind it to the Bearer token inputs of all three HTTP nodes. Access tokens expire; obtain a new one before it expires. Set the desired new family name in Update the surname.
In n8n, connect the G Suite Admin credential to all three nodes and configure the domain, username, names and initial password in G Suite Admin, then set the updated surname in G Suite Admin1.
Behavior
The workflow creates one user, updates that same user’s surname, and reads their final record. Open Flow returns the full API record; n8n’s default Get output returns its simplified user fields. The account and any changes may remain if an operation fails or its response is lost. Inspect the Workspace directory before retrying; the workflow does not retry writes.
Inspiration & credits
Changes to the source
- Replace the source account and password with user configuration. Open Flow uses the Google Directory API with a manually supplied short-lived OAuth token; n8n retains its G Suite Admin connection.
Adapted from Create, update, and get a user using the G Suite Admin node in Zie619/n8n-workflows. The source export does not identify a separate template author or license.
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