What NocoAI can do
NocoAI acts with your permissions. Each action below shows the minimum project role that it needs. NocoAI does not offer actions that your role does not allow, or actions for a feature that your plan does not include.
Actions with the note Asks first wait until you click Approve. Then they run.
Projects and tables
| Action | Minimum role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Build a project from a description | Creator | Creates up to 20 related tables with fields, links and views in one step |
| Create a table | Creator | |
| Rename a table or edit its description | Creator | |
| Delete a table | Creator | Asks first |
| Duplicate a table | Creator | Copies its fields, views, data and webhooks |
| Group tables into folders | Creator | |
| Restore something from the project trash | Editor | Deleted records, tables, views, fields, dashboards and scripts |
| Rename a project | Owner |
Copy a prompt, paste it into NocoAI in any base, and replace the words in [brackets] with your own.
- Build a project to manage [inventory], with linked tables for [products, suppliers and stock movements]
- Add a table to this project for [invoices] and link it to [Customers]
- Rename this table to [new name] and give it a short description
Fields
| Action | Minimum role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Add a field | Creator | Text, number, currency, percent, rating, duration, date and time, select, checkbox, attachment, user, JSON, barcode, QR code, button and more |
| Add links, lookups, rollups and formulas | Creator | Describe the relationship or calculation in plain language |
| Rename a field or change its type | Creator | When you change the type, you can lose data that does not fit the new type |
| Set the display value | Creator | |
| Duplicate a field | Creator | |
| Delete a field | Creator | Asks first |
Views
| Action | Minimum role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Create a view | Creator | Grid, gallery, kanban, calendar, form, timeline, gantt, map and list, with filters, sorts, groups and row colors |
| Show, hide or reorder fields | Editor | |
| Add or remove filters | Editor | |
| Add or remove sorts | Editor | |
| Group records (up to 5 levels) | Editor | Grid views |
| Rename a view | Editor | |
| Duplicate a view | Editor | |
| Set or clear row coloring | Editor | |
| Share a view, or stop sharing it | Editor | Asks first |
| Group views into folders | Creator | |
| Delete a view | Editor | Asks first |
| Open a table, view or dashboard | Viewer |
Copy a prompt, paste it into NocoAI in any base, and replace the words in [brackets] with your own.
- Group this view by [Status] and sort each group by [Due Date]
- Hide every field in this view except [Name, Status and Owner]
- Create a [calendar] view of this table using [Date]
Records and data
| Action | Minimum role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Find, count and summarize records | Viewer | Includes linked records |
| Create or update records | Editor | Up to 50 at a time |
| Link or unlink records | Editor | |
| Delete records | Editor | Up to 10 at a time. Asks first |
| Import a CSV, Excel or JSON file | Editor | Into a new table or an existing one |
| Export records to CSV or Excel | Viewer | |
| Read, add, edit and resolve record comments | Commenter | |
| Create records from a record template, and manage the templates | Editor |
Copy a prompt, paste it into NocoAI in any base, and replace the words in [brackets] with your own.
- Which [customers] have no [orders] in the last [90] days?
- Summarise this table: how many records are there, and how are they spread across [Status]?
- Set [Status] to [Done] for every record where [Due Date] has passed
Dashboards
| Action | Minimum role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Build a dashboard with widgets | Creator | Bar, line, pie and donut charts, metrics, text and iframes |
| Add, edit or remove widgets | Creator | Asks first when you remove a widget |
| Delete a dashboard | Creator | Asks first |
Workflows and interfaces
| Action | Minimum role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Build or edit a workflow | Editor | NocoAI saves new workflows as drafts |
| Publish a workflow | Editor | Asks first |
| Write, edit or delete a script | Creator | Deleting asks first |
| Create, edit or delete a webhook | Creator | Asks first |
| Group workflows and scripts into folders | Creator | |
| Build an interface, or edit and add pages | Creator | |
| Publish an interface | Creator | |
| Delete an interface or a page | Creator | Asks first |
Docs
| Action | Minimum role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Read docs and their comments | Viewer | |
| Create a doc | Creator | |
| Edit a doc | Editor | |
| Add or resolve comments | Commenter | |
| Move a doc | Editor | |
| Share a doc, or stop sharing it | Creator | Asks first |
| Delete a doc | Creator | Asks first |
Members and permissions
| Action | Minimum role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| List the members and teams of a project | Viewer | The subjects a permission grant or a policy can name |
| Grant or drop table and field permissions | Creator | Asks first |
| Create, edit or delete row-level security policies | Owner | Asks first |
| Read the project audit log | Owner |
Help
NocoAI answers questions about NocoDB. It uses this documentation to find the answers. For billing, account problems or bugs, NocoAI sends you to the NocoDB support team.
What NocoAI can't do yet
- Invite people to a project or a workspace, or change someone's role
- Set up sync
- Create, rename or manage workspaces
- Share a project, or create a project share link
- Undo with a button. You can ask NocoAI to put back a change that it made, or to restore the change from the project trash.
NocoAI is not available on mobile. To use NocoAI, you need a role on the project. People who only have access to an interface cannot use NocoAI.
Availability
- NocoAI is available on NocoDB Cloud (Plus plan and above). On Cloud, NocoAI uses credits. Your plan includes credits each month.
- On self-hosted deployments (Business plan and above), you must configure your own AI integration to use AI.
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