Run AI auto-fills on existing data

I added a custom AI task to an existing column and it works fine for new data. It’s not a complicated one - it just fetches the initials for an employee’s name and puts them in the new column.

When I add an AI auto-fill like this, I’d like to be able to run it on the existing rows on demand, populating any empty fields.

The support team suggested I could export the whole board’s data and reimport it, but I don’t want to do that as the data is complex and I don’t want to have to recreate any of of the metadata, etc. There has to be a better way to trigger the AI auto-fill activity on each row.

Hey James,

I found a work around for this. I created a status column next to it and changed my custom action to “When {status} changes to Done, add the first name from {item name}” then I just took the time to change the status for my thousands of leads and then reverted back to a different formula so that whenever something is added it populates “add first name from {item name}”.