# Glide table as an input for generate text AI

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-table-as-an-input-for-generate-text-ai/79867>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Tags:** ai\
**Created:** [February 7, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-table-as-an-input-for-generate-text-ai/79867 "2025-02-07T05:05:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![MattLB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mattlb/32/41284_2.png) [@MattLB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattLB)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-table-as-an-input-for-generate-text-ai/79867/1 "2025-02-07T05:05:01Z")

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Does Glide support using Glide tables as input for Generate Text within Glide AI?

If not should I put in a feature request?

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**Author:** ![Mariusz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mariusz/32/89415_2.png) [@Mariusz](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mariusz)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 11:40am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-table-as-an-input-for-generate-text-ai/79867/2 "2025-02-07T11:40:07Z")

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If you want to put in the contents of the whole table into a Generate Text request, you’ll need to create joined lists of all the columns or rows you want to include and preferably use templates to structure the content of the table so that it can be understood by AI.

Remember that the more tokens (1 token ~4 chars) you put into each prompt, the quicker you’ll burn through your updates capacity.

What are you building? It’ll be easier to help if you share more datails.

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**Author:** ![MattLB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mattlb/32/41284_2.png) [@MattLB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattLB)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-table-as-an-input-for-generate-text-ai/79867/3 "2025-02-07T14:50:08Z")

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I want to use AI/NLP/Generate Text to summarize a set of activities which are english language descriptions (“Matt added a new partner”,“Matt added a note to an account”,“Matt deleted a meeting”) with additional meta tags such as author, timestamp and territory that are currently stored as rows in a Glide database. A prompt would be “create a summary of Matts activity this month”)

I will use the suggestion to test by using joined lists and limit the input size. I am interested in Glide AI’s ability to do this summary.

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-table-as-an-input-for-generate-text-ai/79867/4 "2025-02-08T01:16:46Z")

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> [@MattLB](#):
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> I will use the suggestion to test by using joined lists and limit the input size. I am interested in Glide AI’s ability to do this summary.

That would work, but be careful on how many tokens you are consuming. A month’s worth of data might be a lot.

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**Author:** ![MattLB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mattlb/32/41284_2.png) [@MattLB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MattLB)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-table-as-an-input-for-generate-text-ai/79867/5 "2025-02-08T01:50:54Z")

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Agreed - I suspect two paths will be required based on data set size.