Workbooks
Create and manage structured data with sheets, fields, formulas, and views.
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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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 agent.
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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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