Common Hosted Form Service (CHEFS)

The CHEFS node retrieves a submission, a form's available status codes, or a submission's status history from the Common Hosted Form Service. It is a version 1 declarative n8n node (chefs) using the CHEFS API credential (chefsApi).

Quick start

1. Obtain the CHEFS Form ID and its API key from your form's API configuration.
2. Create a CHEFS API credential with that API key and a nonblank local Authorization Token.
3. Add Common Hosted Form Service (CHEFS) to the workflow and select the credential.
4. Choose a resource and operation. Enter the Form ID and a node Authorization Token exactly matching the credential token.
5. Supply Submission ID for either submission operation. Get Form Statuses needs no Submission ID.

Requests use the fixed base URL https://submit.digital.gov.bc.ca/app/api/v1. Form ID is required even for submission routes because it is the upstream Basic authentication username.

Guides

• Node operations and input matrix
• Credentials and the two authentication layers
• Release notes and migration
• Upstream CHEFS API reference

The node uses n8n's standard declarative JSON response handling; it has no custom response transformation. It supports these three read operations only.