AutomationAI

Generate Text

Generate text from data in your app.

With the Generate Text feature, generate text from existing text, a given context, a data input, or a set of parameters. This can be useful for creating automated responses, content generation, or even simulating human-like conversation within an app.

Adding the Generate Text Feature

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Open the table where you want to use the Generate Text feature.

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Add a new basic text column for the Input. The input can be any column that contains text, so if you’ve used another action or computed column to create a text result, you can also use that text result as the Input source.

  • New columns added with the plus button will always appear on the right. If you’d like to add a column somewhere else in your data, you can select the dropdown menu on an existing column and choose Add column right. You can also click and drag columns to rearrange them.
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Add a Generate Text column to store the result. Search for “Generate Text’ or navigate to AI → Generate Text.

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For the Instructions, add instructions to create more specificity for your prompt.

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For the Input, use the Input column created previously.

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Note: If the action will be triggered in the Workflow Editor, then add a basic text Result column where the result will be stored.

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Click on Done.

Frequently Asked Questions

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The Generate Text feature uses 1 update per 4,096 tokens when using the Default model. If you enable the High Power model, then the feature uses 1 update per 512 tokens. Note that large amounts of input text will increase the amount of updates used. When the input or prompt changes, the feature will rerun on every row in the column and generate updates per row. Glide recommends testing input and prompt changes on a small sample of test data before making broader changes to your data that may incur updates.