Show Off your Airtable AI Use-Cases!

Cool?

You could of built that using the Interface builder in just a couple minutes and not needed to “first draft” it because you’d of set it up in the first place? 

Instead of wasting dev time on stuff that already works trying to chase buzz, why not make meaningful improvements to Airtable’s form function so we don’t always have to recommend folks to Fillout? 

Or improve the flexibility and functions of Interfaces so we're not having to implement Softr or Glide solutions on top of Airtable data?

Or increase the number of integration partners so we're not pushing our automations out to Make or n8n? 

Hey ​@DisraeliGears01, thanks for your feedback!  Interface Designer can already do a lot, and this launch is meant to offer a faster, more guided starting point for teams who need more structure out of the box.

That said, your feedback on Forms, Interface flexibility, and integrations is important. These are areas we are actively thinking about, and we’d genuinely value your input. If you’re open to it, we’d love to connect and hear more directly.

Exciting!

I’m not able to have Omni in my existing bases. How to add this ?

​@Thierry_Gattlen 

The new AI-native Airtable will be rolling out to existing users over the next few weeks, and you can also request immediate access here.

- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant

Adding to what ​@DisraeliGears01 said… here’s my wish list, which would be more helpful right now (for me) than Omni:

• Add a Limit field (like LIMIT in SQL) for bar graphs, pie charts, etc. so we can show x number of top categories instead of having a graph flooded with too many bars/categories.
• Make dashboards more flexible (too much to suggest here, but even though I like the ease and simplicity, the dashboards’ current rigidity does create a clunkier user experience at times).
• Improve formulas (heck, even allow for javascript as Google Sheets does), since Airtable’s current functions often yield clunky results for semi-complex scenarios.
• Improve hovering for y-axis (right) line graph data points—it requires a bit of patience to *precisely* hover to see values (should be a simple fix!)
• And having a comparison feature for numbers w/ percent increase/decrease for a previous time period would be great!

Happy to connect and discuss further with anyone.

Thanks for listening.

Hi,

Is it possible to come back to original Airtable interface after I clicked Try Omni?
Thank you!

It’s interesting that 24 hours in, no use cases are yet published by users. I think the burden of showcasing this new feature should be on Airtable staff. Give us some solid, value add examples of using AI tools in Airtable.

I’ve got databases with thousands of records, so I think its reasonable to be skeptical and protective of that data to not simply unleash “AI” through my workflows. We need real examples and a better understanding of what permissions AI agents have to manipulate data and restructure our bases.

Hey ​@Stephen_Juth, best way to get your comments directly to Airtable’s team is by filling out this form -as feature requests are not done via Community any more. 

(personally, my biggest request is more robust forms :D, similar to those used by Fillout).

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation

Yeah, my griping was more generalized feedback (and frustration at the AI hype train) than specific feature requests. I do find it funny that a week in and this is crickets though.

​@Stephen_Juth You might know this workaround already, but for your too many bars in a chart issue, adding a count field and picking a cutoff in the dashboard interface (only show records with more than 10 entries, whatever) works to clean that up somewhat. 

Thanks for the feedback, ​@DisraeliGears01. I’m not sure that will work for my situation. I’ll give it some thought.

My case is about extracting info from files. Not a problem, It would be more accurate to say that I wanted to test the AI functions, see what it can do and understand why I need it.
Some time ago I created Extension script to get info from text files, but it was tied to a base and too hard-coded for exact type of info. So, I tried more challenging task - to extract info from PDF.

I tried several models and found that in general, GPT worked better. Also, for many ‘formal’ tasks, where not much place for ‘creativity’, result for low-cost models identical to result from better version. I asked usual browser GPT to write prompt for AI because I couldn't express what I wanted in a clear, understandable form, having insufficient skills both in working with AI and, to some extent, in the English language. Thus, for me, GPT became the director among AIs, translating human text into a clear form, understandable to AI.

It worked good, extracted correct info, and when I asked, created new fields and distributed it there.

Then i tried to create a kind of library for my scripts. I have one already, but it’s very simple and I hoped to see more ideas. Then it created some AI fields, where  I asked AI to extract code text from my JS files, loaded using Gallery view, one per record, but it extracted only two. When I asked to repeat for others, it did 3 more and then stopped again.  So I got another idea, and that part impressed me.

 

The result was 95% ready to work script. Even better than I asked, it added menu to choose fields, it doesn’t tied to button to press and extract one by one, just press Run and it extracted all text from all files.
Little problem with formatting and few strange function exits with ‘return’

I needed literally 2 minutes to fix these problems and it worked like a charm. And yes, it really mimics my style, a bit different from traditional, more compact and convenient for me, when I’m the only who use and edit this code.
Would like to add, somewhere it has redundant parts from my other scripts, in code and comments, easily removed. To be honest, I can’t say that a person with zero coding skills, can easily craft an extension ready to use. But it feels like ‘very close to this point’. 
 

And now I’m just curious - will it remember these notes or next time it starts from a clean sheet?