Shape your data in plain English

LESSONLesson 1 · ~20 min

🎯Goal. Refine the app's data — its entities and fields — by describing them, with no schema, SQL or connection step.

▶ Try this prompt

Each booking should record the room, the person's name and email, the date, start and end time, and a status (confirmed / cancelled). Add a 'capacity' number to each room.

Base44 updates the built-in database entities directly. You can also open Dashboard → Data to edit tables by hand.

1Send the prompt above to add/adjust fields, then open Dashboard → Data to see your entities (tables) update live.
2In the Data tab you can add/edit/delete records, search and filter, set per-entity view/edit permissions, and import a CSV (More Actions → Import) or export. Field types include Text, Number, Date, File, and Reference (links one entity to another).
3Add a couple of rows by hand to confirm the structure matches how people will use the app.

The Base44 Data tab showing app entities — Dashboard → Data — your app's entities (tables), editable by hand or by prompt. Source: docs.base44.com

✓You'll see. Your entities and fields reshaped by description and editable in the Data tab — no schema file, no DB connection.

💳Cost. Shaping data via chat uses message credits; the database itself (reads/writes) costs no integration credits and is included free.

💡Takeaway. Modelling data in plain English is Base44's core no-code move — it replaces the whole 'connect a database' step other tools make you do.