AutomationAI

Text to Texts

Extract text into an array of strings.

The Text to Texts feature extracts text from a message and transforms it into an array of strings. For example:

Input: I’m making a cake. the ingredients are flour, sugar, butter, and eggs.

Output: flour,sugar,butter,eggs

The instructions can extract simple arrays like the example above, or more complicated sets of phrases and sentences. For example, you could upload an entire document and extract every question or every bullet point.

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Adding the Text to Texts Feature

1

Open the table where you want to use the Text to Texts column.

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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 Text to Texts column to store the result. Search for ‘Text to Texts’ or navigate to AI → Text to Texts.

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For Instructions, enter custom text to create more specificity for your prompt.

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For Input, use the Input column created previously.

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Note: If the action is to 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.