New: AI-generated Interface Elements

Interesting, and I know everyone has been dying for this as it’s been teased for the past few months…

That said, I wish this wasn’t just a black box reliant on an LLM only to generate code tweaks. I understand have the LLM as a primary UX component but the option should exist to examine and edit the generated code.

Also, I just refuse to use AI and have it disabled across the board. If you could use custom code then these interface components could be shared and utilized beyond one off builds. One very useful function of an active community like here is sharing things like useful formulas and scripts that can be repurposed and utilized by other users. The closest you could do here is share an exact prompt and hope that the LLM interprets it the same?   

Totally fair perspective. For those of you who are looking to have finer-grained control by writing your own code, stay tuned — we’ll have an exciting announcement for you in the coming weeks.

I’ve been waiting to try this out! Essentially, I’m trying to make a similar interface to that of the 3D annotation tool but for video. Though, it seems there are issues linking two tables together.

For example, I have a “videos” table containing public video URL’s and a “comments” table - which are linked via linked records. When trying to use the AI tool to create a comment on a video, it isn’t able to create the comment and link it to the video.

Any insight on how you managed to create the 3D model viewer so I can learn best practices here for how to structure my data to fit my use-case?

Currently, AI-generated interface elements don’t work with multiple tables; you can only interact with data from a single source table.

It is possible to read data from a linked table via linked records/lookups/rollups, but in your case, users wouldn't be able to create records in the comments table. An alternate approach you could explore is allowing users to open a record detail page for the video from your interface element and leaving comments in there.

With that said, first-class support for multiple tables is on our roadmap and we’re hoping to enable more complex use cases soon.

Yuck, currently unworkable for an organisation running its day-to-day on Airtable, unfortunately.

We've tried the functionality today, but while it's generating the element (took approx. 5 min, then ended with ‘I hit an unexpected error. Please try again in a bit.’) the rest of Airtable is completely inaccessible.

The entire team couldn't load any interface pages and all Make scenario's interacting with Airtable crashed with Timeout errors.

Hey ​@Stephen_Suen,

Congrats!!! Super excited about it.

My first attempt was to build a form that could create records on multiple tables from one unique submission/page (e.g. create Contact AND Company records). This obviously did not work given the one table limit (I was aware of the limit, but hey… a man can still dream, right? lol). -I’ve been pushing for this form feature for a long time!

I do believe that as AI gets better, and new features get enabled (specially multiple tables), this will become really valuable. Thanks for sharing!

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
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Hey ​@Jeroen_Sarink, that doesn’t sound right. Do you mind filing a support ticket so our engineering team can look into this issue more closely?

I’ve been putting the new AI interface element builder through its paces and I’ve found a way to interact with multiple tables by utilizing GET and POST web requests via the AI through interfaces.

I had the AI adjust my interface so that whenever it’s about to load my video (hosted via Mux) it sends a GET webhook to load existing comments based from the video’s record ID via n8n. Then, once it receives the comments, it displays them. To add new comments, it sends POST webhooks which writes the comment to my comments table with associated video record ID. n8n handles all of the backend web requests and sends webhook responses, when necessary.

I can definitely see ways for the AI builder to continually improve, but so far - I’m completely blown away. I love this feature and it opens so many possibilities! Let me know if you need any product feedback or input from a user.

Can’t wait to keep building!

​@kyle.chefnick So glad to hear you’re having some fun testing it out! Keep the feedback coming — more features are rolling out soon 👀

Given the fact that I have received an error with every iterative update to the advanced pivot table interface I’ve been having it try to design for me, I will likely stop using the feature until this is available. I’m unable to present the error back to omni & have it perform any level of AI based error handling & correction - once that error is present, it feels like my custom interface is DOA & no further iteration will resolve it. 

I like how the source code is available - however I’d like to see a more robust interaction with Omni surrounding that source code. It would also be nice to be able to see a versioning aspect, because is there anything in place that would allow me to revert an iterative change? 

Ultimately, I feel like for basic use cases the omni interactive option will be great - but I’ll be holding on until I can leverage this further with more granular manipulations with personal code & based off the present experience with omni, I’d feel much better leveraging cursor for AI based iterative code
 

I want to piggyback off my previous comment in that I do know there is an undo function, however that is only structured based off the most recent development.  If you receive an error, its simple enough to just say undo - however if you get into an iteration loop with the AI & want to undo multiple revisions, or lets say you attempt to interpret the error you receive and attempt to explain the error & ask the AI to handle that error, and it doesn’t - you no longer have an opportunity to revert the change that caused the error, because now the only ‘undo’ option is for whatever it did to try and handle for that error.

Could you offer some more concrete info on this, please? I have a number of custom extensions that are preventing me from moving all users to interface-only. It sounds like you’re hinting at custom extensions in interfaces but it’s hard to plan my work based on hints. Even just a, “no that is not what we’re planning,” would be really helpful, thanks.

Love this direction—AI-generated elements can finally cover the long-tail of bespoke views. Two asks: versioned rollback/sandboxing for prompts and clear permission inheritance/audit trails, especially when an element embeds a website or other external source. Also curious how teams “promote” a scrappy prototype into a blessed, reusable template across workspaces.

Hey ​@Mike_AutomaticN ! We just released multi table support, and your use case was the first thing I tried. Have a look!