The Scenario
You're a backend developer who picked up a ticket three days ago: build a REST API integration on top of the 'Orders' table in NocoDB. You have the instance URL. You have an API token. What you don't have is a clear picture of what's actually in that table — which fields exist, what types they are, which ones are required.
The bad version:
- Open NocoDB in the browser, navigate to the 'Orders' table, click "Fields" to expand the sidebar, and manually read through each field's properties one at a time.
- Copy each field name into a document, write the type next to it, note the required flag — for 40 fields.
- Keep the browser and the document open simultaneously, switching between them every 30 seconds, hoping you don't transpose anything.
The documentation you need to write before you can build anything is now a data-entry job. That's not what you were hired to do, and it's not what the ticket said the work would be.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the workbook, understands the structure, and through its built-in NocoDB integration it can pull the schema of any table and write it directly into your columns — no browser tab switching, no copy-typing.
Export the table structure of my NocoDB 'Orders' table to Excel — one row per column with field name, type, and required flag into columns A, B, and C
What You Get
- Column A fills with every field name in the table — one row per field.
- Column B contains the data type for each field (text, number, date, lookup, etc.).
- Column C shows a true/false or yes/no required flag for each field.
- Any field with unusual properties (multi-select options, linked record config) is noted inline.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The workbook has more fields than expected and some have no type listed
Read the schema of my NocoDB 'Orders' table and write field name in column A, type in column B, and required in column C — if any field has no type, write 'untyped' in column B instead of leaving it blank
You need schemas from two tables side by side for a join mapping
Pull the schema for both the 'Orders' table and the 'Customers' table from NocoDB — write 'Orders' schemas into columns A through C and 'Customers' schemas into columns E through G, with a header row for each block
The field names in NocoDB use underscores but your API expects camelCase
Read the schema of my NocoDB 'Orders' table, write field names into column A, then write the camelCase version of each name into column B, and the type into column C
Full kill-chain: pull schema, flag required fields, and highlight any without a type
Read the schema of my NocoDB 'Orders' table into columns A, B, C — then in column D, flag any row where type is blank with 'MISSING TYPE' and any row where required is true with 'REQUIRED' — sort so the flagged rows appear first
The pattern is to describe the cleanup and the output shape in a single prompt. SheetXAI handles the conditional logic without needing a separate pass.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook you're using for API documentation, then ask it to pull your NocoDB table schema directly into your columns. Also worth reading: Batch Delete NocoDB Rows Using IDs Listed in a Google Sheet and the NocoDB integration overview.