Workbooks
Database power, spreadsheet flexibility
Use Flatfile Workbooks anywhere you need to edit, validate, transform, or integrate data into your workflow. Integrate into any application, internal tool, or business flow with just a few lines of code.
HUNDREDS OF BUSINESSES TURN FILES INTO API-READY DATA WITH FLATFILE
Editable
Just like a spreadsheet, you can edit any cell, row, or column with just a keystroke.
Infinite Scroll
With no pagination clicks you can quickly jump to any record in your dataset.
Highlighted Issues
Immediately see any formatting or validation issues with data in the table.
Extensible in Code
Connect to your business logic and extend behavior using Javascript.
Sortable
Saved views
Searchable
Queryable
6 cell types
Customizable theme
Linked values
Event stream
Resizable columns
Available in 173 languages
Use Cases
Efficient Bulk Data Editing
Flatfile’s workbooks make bulk editing quick and convenient. Start simple with features like search & replace, or take it to the next level with AI transformations; simply describe how you want to modify your data. No worries if you messed up - just revert your latest changes with our automated snapshots.
Customizable, Advanced Data Cleaning
Validations, transformations, and custom actions are all code-based - giving you complete control of how you want your data. Users can review, filter, and correct their data to the desired format and structure with speed and ease.
Flexible Data Conversion
Import and export data from just about any file type, not just common ones like CSV, Excel, and JSON (even relational data). Automated extraction, mapping, validation, and transformation makes conversion a breeze. For custom requirements, you can write your own custom file plugin giving you total control.
Fast & Efficient Data Sharing
Replace the constant back and forth of files with a shared source of truth. Users and team members can validate, correct, and import data with immediate feedback, ensuring high-quality and up-to-date data that’s available to everyone. Access control included.
Search like you mean it
The most powerful search in the history of data. Bringing together AI, natural language, SQL, and full text search, Flatfile Search allows you to instantly get to the data you want with absolutely no technical skills.
Natural language search
Just use plain English to describe what you're looking for - no SQL needed. Our AI engine fully understands your data and its structure, so you can filter your data with ease.
Search across tables
Searching designed for people who don't know what a JOIN query is. Flatfile can search across any field in your dataset including fields mirrored from other tables.
Deep type comprehension
Combined with Flatfile's proprietary Flex Type ability, you can search naturally and get results that make sense, even if the data isn't valid or the correct type.
Advanced query based data filtering
Perform actions on search results
Wildcard search support
Collaboration, perfected
Leverage our high-level aggregate summary to see how your dataset changed or dive into the cell-level changes to help you understand what updates were made to your data.
Visual diff
Say goodbye to tedious manual comparisons and hello to effortless insights. No more fear of accidental alterations, you’re in command.
High-level change summaries
Cell level changes visualized
Approve or reject updates to ensure data integrity
Version history
Step back in time and explore your data’s journey. Uncover the sequence of changes, and seamlessly switch between the various versions.
Keep track of changes to your data
Easily revert to or view previous versions
Collaborate with confidence
No trust, no problem
Control who can edit data, and when. Review changes before you accept them into your workbook.
Real-time insights
Get alerted when one of your guests makes changes to a sheet, with high-level summaries that tell you what changed.
Effortless revisions
Generate a visual diff to see a detailed view of how reverting to an older version would change your data, before you revert.
Data integrity
Unlike other spreadsheet editors that allow multiple users to simultaneously edit, and sometimes destroy data, control who can edit data and when.
Granular comparisons
Review changes made to your data on a cell by cell basis; our UI makes it easy to see what data was added and removed.
All relationships, no drama
Automatically maintain accurate connections between data sets. By intuitively linking records, combine traditional database strength with user simplicity, ensuring your data’s coherence and consistency at every turn.
Auto-link Records
Intelligently associate records between sheets.
Cross-sheet Validation
Combine robust database mechanisms with the ease of tools like vlookup.
Mirror Values
Auto-analyze and display results based on relationships.
Rollups
Inherit validation from related records for unified data consistency.
Nested recordsComing Soon
With nested records, you can easily view and edit any linked data in the context of the record you’re in. No navigating away, stay in flow with just a few keystrokes.
Multi-directional relationships
Sub-objects in a single record
Inline and card breakout editing
Synced references
Combine user input with known reference data by easily synchronizing a read-only reference sheet with an external database or API.
Sync millions of records in minutes
Keep up to date with events or scheduled syncs
Transformations
Fix problems automatically
70 percent of data issues are simply formatting or typing issues. Flatfile resolves many of these automatically with Flextype, and provides plugins and SDKs to transform data in even more specific ways.
Flex Type
Accommodate any data, while progressively adapting it to an appropriate format.
Adaptive data recognition
Shadow values
Progressive data adaptation
Extendable transformations
Use our powerful low-latency event stream and add your own custom code to resolve issues.
Dozens of plugins designed for transformation
Use any npm package to transform data
Show users what’s been transformed
Make external API calls to validate or enrich data
Realtime Feedback
Instantly highlight errors
One of the biggest points of friction in resolving data problems is the latency between providing data and discovering the issues. With Flatfile Workbooks, errors are highlighted in milliseconds, instead of hours or days.
Conditional validation
Support complex validation rules using code.
Format validation
Flag format inconsistencies that can’t be fixed automatically.
External validation
Validate against any external data source in real-time.
And much more
Reduce the time between entering data and identifying errors from hours to milliseconds -- a game-changer for data workflows.
Data diffing
Visualize and compare differences between datasets, identifying additions, deletions, and modifications effortlessly.
Branching & merging
Easily branch off datasets for parallel work or isolated analysis and merge them back without conflict, ensuring data integrity.
Deduplication
Automatically detect and remove duplicate records or cells using built-in logic, or write your own function for custom needs.
Metadata
Infuse your data with meta-information to store auxiliary details alongside your main dataset - such as data source or internal ID.
Custom actions
Add your own code-based functions to perform customized tasks - right within the workbook interface.
Data upload
Import data from (almost) any file format. Common formats (CSV, Excel, JSON, etc.) are built-in, or you can write a plugin for your unique needs.
Data export
Download datasets directly from the workbook interface, in whatever format you want, for easy sharing or offline analysis.
Snapshots
Capture point-in-time data states, enabling a historical view for auditing, or to roll back changes when necessary.
Cryptographic tokenization
Replace sensitive information or PII with tokens to bolster data security and meet compliance standards without hindering usability.
Flagging records
Flag individual records for inconsistencies, errors, or any need for further scrutiny or to take specific actions.
Live updating
Integrate real-time data feeds directly into your dataset, ensuring the freshest data is always at your fingertips - automatically.
Audit log
A complete and detailed historical view of all events and actions, providing accountability and traceability.
To view all you can do with Workbooks view the developer docs
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