Workbooks
Create and manage structured data with sheets, fields, formulas, and views.
Filtering, Sorting & Grouping
This guide walks you through narrowing, reordering, and organizing rows in a sheet. Think of it like filtering a spreadsheet, but you can also just ask the agen
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Record Detail Panel
The record detail panel lets you view and edit a single record in a docked right-side panel — without leaving the view you're in. You can open it from the grid, kanban, gallery, calendar, and timeline views, then edit fields, attach files, and navigate between records while the parent view stays ful
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Creating and Managing Sheets
This guide covers adding, renaming, duplicating, reordering, and deleting sheets inside a workbook. By the end, you'll know every way to organize your sheets — starting with the fastest.
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Person & Rating Fields
Person fields assign workspace members to records. Rating fields score anything from 1 to 5. This guide covers both.
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Calculated Rows
This guide walks you through adding summary calculations — like sums, averages, and counts — to the bottom of your sheet columns.
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Bulk Export
Export multiple artifacts from a project at once — workbooks, documents, and presentations — in the format you need.
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Workbooks & Sheets Overview
A workbook in Obvious works like a workbook in Excel — it holds one or more sheets, each with its own columns and rows. The difference is that everything connects directly to the views, automations, a
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Sheet Version History
Every edit to a sheet—adding fields, running transformations, importing data—is saved as a version. This guide shows you how to view and restore previous versions.
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Validations
This guide walks you through adding validation rules to your sheets — automatic checks that flag data quality issues like missing values, bad emails, or numbers outside an expected range.
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Analyze and query your data
This guide shows you how to ask the Obvious agent questions about your sheet data — filtering, grouping, summarizing — and save the results as new sheets you can keep working with.
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References & Lookups
References connect records across sheets — like a hyperlink between rows. Instead of duplicating data, you point one record at another and let Obvious pull in what you need automatically.
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Enrichments
Enrichments add new columns to your sheet that Obvious fills automatically — using AI, web research, or translation. Think of it like auto-fill, but smarter: you describe what you want in plain langua
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Exporting Data
Export a single sheet from a workbook as a CSV or Excel file for use outside Obvious.
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Importing Data
This guide walks you through bringing your data into Obvious. You'll learn how to import CSV, Excel (.xlsx, .xls), and JSON files into sheets — whether you ask the agent, drag a file into chat, or use
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Formulas
This guide walks you through adding computed fields to your sheets using formulas — calculations that update automatically when your data changes.
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Field Types & Configuration
Every field in an Obvious sheet has a type that controls what kind of data it accepts and how that data displays. This reference covers every available field type, what you can customize, and when to
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