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Welcome to the SeaTable Online Course 4 – Automation & Integration!

In the previous courses you learned the basics (Online Course 1 – Getting Started ), built a complete business process (Online Course 2 – Inputs and Outputs ), and worked as a team on shared data (Online Course 3 – Collaboration ). So far, every action went through your own hands: you typed, you clicked, you updated. This course shifts register: you will learn to make SeaTable work for you, then to connect it to the rest of your tools. That is what this course is all about — automation and integration.

To make it concrete, you run a warehouse that receives deliveries from its suppliers. With every delivery, you have to check what arrives, compare it against what was announced, update the stock and alert the right person. An ideal sequence to discover, one building block at a time, everything SeaTable can automate and connect.

This course is ideal for you if you:

  • have completed the three foundation online courses and want to go further.
  • spend too much time on repetitive tasks that SeaTable could take care of on its own.
  • want to connect SeaTable to your other tools — a management system, a notification service, a storage space.
  • are not afraid of a little code: a few Python scripts turn up along the way, but they are always provided for you.

The through-line is a warehouse operation: receive a supplier delivery, validate it, update the stock and get notified. You start from a base that already holds your products and a delivery to process, and you equip it step by step.

Throughout the course, you will learn to:

  • automate an action without writing a single line of code — a trigger, a condition, an action.
  • write a short Python script for what automation alone cannot do.
  • let AI read a delivery note and extract its lines on its own.
  • send a notification to the outside world with a webhook.
  • orchestrate a small workflow with n8n to archive a document.
  • call SeaTable’s API, and let an outside tool write to it in turn.

By the end, you will have a complete toolkit to automate your processes and connect them to the outside world.

Like the previous courses, you follow this one here, on the site. What is new is a companion: a plugin you add to your base and switch to at certain moments — to discover a feature, or to have what you just built checked. You set up an automation or a script by following the course, you open the plugin, you click Verify, and it checks whether the expected effect is really there in your data.

The online courses plugin open on the warehouse base, showing the current exercise and the verify button

Some steps, on the other hand, take you out of SeaTable for real — sending an actual notification to your phone, archiving an actual file in another service. For those, the plugin scores nothing: it simply tells you to trigger the action, then to go and see the result on the other side. That manual check is part of the lesson.

New to this companion? The plugin includes a short Welcome course — pick it from the list on the left for a quick tour of how a course works, the buttons, and the movable toolbar you can slide out of your way. It takes barely a minute, and everything that follows assumes you are at ease moving between the site and the plugin, so that is the place to start.

To follow this course successfully, you will need:

  1. SeaTable account: Use an account on any SeaTable system; your account from course 1 or 2 will do fine.
  2. Artificial intelligence, for one step: the step where SeaTable reads a delivery note needs a system with AI available. On SeaTable Cloud there is nothing to do — it is included and free. On a self-hosted system, an administrator has to install the SeaTable AI component and point it at a model. Without it you can still read that step and carry on with the course, but you will not be able to run the chain it builds.
  3. The course plugin: the online courses plugin , to add to your base. You will activate it in the first step, when you first need it.
  4. Forum: an account on our community forum if you would like to receive a badge after completing the course.
  5. Optional, for the webhook step: you will send an external notification using ntfy  . No account is needed and you can confirm receipt in your browser, but to receive it on your phone you will need to install the ntfy app from your app store.
  6. Optional, for the n8n step: this step follows very well as a simple demonstration, with nothing to install. But if you want to carry it out yourself, you will need an n8n account and a Google account (for Google Drive) — n8n offers a free trial with no credit card, and a Google account is one you very likely already have. Nothing to set up in advance: you will open them only if, once there, you decide to get your hands dirty.
  7. Browser: we recommend Google Chrome.
  8. Language: the course is available in several languages, but the quiz, screenshots and sample data are in English.

The course takes about an hour and a half, but you go at your own pace. Breaks are possible at any time, and you decide how far to push the “going further” sections scattered along the way.

At the end of this course, you can test your knowledge with a quiz:

  • The quiz is in English and mixes multiple-choice questions with tasks about the base you will have equipped throughout the course.
  • If you pass, you receive a badge for your forum profile  , which makes your skills visible.

What are we waiting for? Let’s go!