--- title: "Connect Grist and QuintaDB - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New or Updated Record\" fires in Grist, your agent runs \"Create Record\" in QuintaDB." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/grist-to-quintadb" --- # Connect Grist and QuintaDB When **New or Updated Record** fires in [Grist](https://apiant.ai/connections/grist), your agent runs **Create Record** in [QuintaDB](https://apiant.ai/connections/quintadb), or **New Database** in QuintaDB to **Create or Update Record** in Grist. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Grist **4** triggers Grist **21** actions QuintaDB **7** triggers QuintaDB **10** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Grist and QuintaDB to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Grist and QuintaDB can do together ### From Grist to QuintaDB - When **New or Updated Record** in Grist then **Create Record** in QuintaDB - When **New Record** in Grist then **Update Record** in QuintaDB ### From QuintaDB to Grist - When **New Database** in QuintaDB then **Create or Update Record** in Grist - When **New Form** in QuintaDB then **Create Record** in Grist Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Grist and QuintaDB ## Triggers and actions 11 triggers · 31 actions - Trigger **New or Updated Record** Triggered when a row in a Grist table is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Record (Instant)** Triggers when a Record is updated, or a new Record is added. - Trigger **New Record** Triggered when a new row is added to a Grist table. - Trigger **New Record (Instant)** Triggers when a new Record is created - Action **Add Column** Adds a column to a table in a Grist document. - Action **Add Table** Creates a new table in a Grist document, optionally with a starting set of columns. - Action **Create Document** Creates a new document in a Grist workspace and returns its document ID. - Action **Create or Update Record** Adds a row to a Grist table, or updates the existing row when the match column already holds the match value. Returns the row ID. - Action **Create Record** Adds a new row to a Grist table and returns its row ID. - Action **Create Workspace** Creates a new workspace in a Grist organization and returns its ID. - Action **Delete Document** Deletes a Grist document permanently. - Action **Delete Records** Deletes one or more rows from a Grist table by row ID. - Action **Delete Workspace** Deletes a Grist workspace along with every document inside it. - Action **Find Record** Searches a Grist table for a row whose column holds a given value and returns that row's ID and column values. - Action **Get Document** Returns the details of one Grist document — its name, web address, workspace, and organization. - Action **Get Org** Returns the details of one Grist organization (team site) — its name, subdomain, owner, and your access level. - Action **Get Workspace** Returns the details of one Grist workspace, including the documents it contains. - Action **List Columns** Returns the columns of a Grist table, with each column's ID, label, and type. - Action **List Orgs** Returns every Grist organization (team site) this connection can reach. - Action **List Tables** Returns the tables in a Grist document. - Action **List Workspaces** Returns the workspaces in a Grist organization, each with the documents it contains. - Action **Run SQL Query** Runs a read-only SELECT statement against a Grist document and returns the rows. - Action **Update Document** Renames a Grist document or changes whether it is pinned. Anything left blank stays as it is. - Action **Update Record** Changes the column values of one row in a Grist table. Columns left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Workspace** Renames a Grist workspace. - Trigger **New Database** Triggers when a new database is created in the connected QuintaDB account. - Trigger **New Form** Triggers when a new form is added to a QuintaDB database. - Trigger **New Form Field** Triggers when a new field is added to a QuintaDB form. - Trigger **New or Updated Record** Triggers when a record in a QuintaDB form is added or changed. - Trigger **New Record** Triggers when a new record is added to a QuintaDB form. - Trigger **New Table Record** Triggers when a new record is added to a QuintaDB form. - Trigger **New Table Report** Triggers when a new report is created on a QuintaDB form. - Action **Add form** Adds a new form (table) to a QuintaDB database. Returns the created form. - Action **Create Record** Adds a new record to a QuintaDB form. The form's own fields are offered for mapping, and the created record's id is returned. - Action **Delete form** Deletes a form (table) and its records from a QuintaDB database. - Action **Delete Record** Deletes a record from a QuintaDB form. - Action **Delete records** Deletes several records from a QuintaDB form in one call. - Action **Find Records** Returns the records in a QuintaDB form that match the conditions you specify. - Action **Get record** Returns one record from a QuintaDB form, including all of its field values. - Action **Update Cell** Changes the value of one field on one QuintaDB record. - Action **Update Record** Changes field values on an existing QuintaDB record. Fields you leave blank keep their current value. - Action **Upload file** Uploads a file into a file field on an existing QuintaDB record. ## Each app on its own - [ **Grist** Grist combines the flexibility of a spreadsheet with the robustness of a database to organize your data...](https://apiant.ai/connections/grist) - [ **QuintaDB** QuintaDB is a relational online database, CRM and Web-form Builder.](https://apiant.ai/connections/quintadb) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Grist - [ **Grist to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/grist-to-gmail) - [ **Grist to Clickhouse** Column-oriented database for real-time analytical SQL queries at petabyte scale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grist-to-clickhouse) - [ **Grist to Mistral AI** Mistral AI is a platform for building, customizing, and deploying advanced AI models and agents for...](https://apiant.ai/connect/grist-to-mistral-ai) - [ **Grist to OpusClip** OpusClip is a AI video tool that turns long videos into viral shorts with captions and transcripts.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grist-to-opusclip) - [ **Grist to Postman** Postman is a platform for building and testing APIs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grist-to-postman) - [ **Grist to RuneScape** The RuneScape Wiki API exposes data for RuneScape and Old School RuneScape.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grist-to-runescape) ## More into QuintaDB - [ **Dub to QuintaDB** Dub is the open-source link management infrastructure for modern marketing teams.](https://apiant.ai/connect/dub-to-quintadb) - [ **Pixabay to QuintaDB** Pixabay is a free image and video library. Search over 4 million royalty-free photos, illustrations, vector...](https://apiant.ai/connect/pixabay-to-quintadb) - [ **HubSpot to QuintaDB** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-quintadb) - [ **Google Sheets to QuintaDB** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-quintadb) - [ **Gmail to QuintaDB** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-quintadb) - [ **Google Calendar to QuintaDB** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-quintadb) Questions ## Grist and QuintaDB, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Grist? Any of Grist's 4 triggers in the catalog, including New or Updated Record, New or Updated Record (Instant), New Record and New Record (Instant). Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in QuintaDB when something happens in Grist? Any of QuintaDB's 10 actions, including Create Record, Update Cell, Update Record and Upload file. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from QuintaDB to Grist? Yes. When something happens in QuintaDB, your agent can act in Grist too. This page covers both directions: QuintaDB's triggers and Grist's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Grist or QuintaDB? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Grist and QuintaDB without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.