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Hello,
We just purchased TapForms (version 5.3.37) for both Mac and iOS after learning about its ability to import our old bento database and on the ability to see our database on both our iOS and MacBook Pro, but we are running into issues here that have us very concerned. After successfully importing our bento database and setting up the MacBook & iPhone to sync (nearby sync), my brother was editing the layout on the MacBook (OS 14.2.1) and when opened the app on my phone, and the changes he made were reverted back! e.g. he changed some fields to be web sites instead of text, but an important (and scary one) was he removed an entry on the laptop that was blank probably 5min before I opened the app on my phone, but as soon as I opened my phone app and checked the sync status (which turned green) the deleted entry was put BACK into the document on the laptop!!
Our plan is to use this software to keep track of our inventory (about 4,000 items with tiny jpeg images – database size is roughly 250 MB), and this has us very worried that changes we make to inventory numbers, locations, etc could revert or change to previous states without us knowing!
Any advice on how to make this work? Is there a way to make the MacBook be the “master” file so any changes it makes are priority? Or even better, is there a way to make the laptop the only one that can make changes? I don’t understand why the file changed back to a previous state once the iOS version was opened and would appreciate any help you can provide.
Thanks so much,
Jeff
Topic: Music Library Template ?
Hello everyone,
Does anyone know of a Music Library Template for Tapp Forms?
I have a music collection I would like to arrange in a logical format, listing Title, Group- Artist/Composer, Tracks, Musicians, Year, Format.. etc
I wish I had made one in Bento, then transferred it to Tapp Forms, like I did with my wine cellar.
Cheer’s!
Hi! We’ve been very happy users for nearly 10 years, having found Tap Forms after Bento was discontinued.
We have a quirky issue that just started happening that we can’t figure out how to resolve. We’ve got a hard-wired Mac Mini, a MacBook Air, and an iPhone all running Tap Forms for an internal item-logging database that consists of a little under 3000 items syncing over iCloud (we previously used CouchDB, but found iCloud to work better in our environment.)
It turns out, somebody missed the prompt on the MacBook Air laptop asking to “reenter your iCloud password to accept new terms and conditions” so various work they were doing wasn’t syncing, which totally makes sense, as iCloud wasn’t updating.
The iPhone and Mac Mini copies of the database were synced and working normally.
What’s odd is that upon re-entering the iCloud password on the MacBook Air and confirming syncing was working again, we noticed a deviation in record count between the MacBook Air (2848 records) and the Mac Mini + iPhone (each having 2894 records).
We went record by record, eventually finding somewhere around record 100 a handful of “missing” records on the MacBook Air, though interestingly they were very old (Date Last Modified typically around April 2013). It’s quite possible that this deviation had always been present and we only just noticed it now?
If we modify one of these very old “missing” records in any fashion from the Mac Mini or iPhone, it immediately syncs correctly to the MacBook Air. Any changes made by the MacBook Air are immediately synced to the Mac Mini + iPhone.
Since we were confident our “golden copy” of the database existed on the Mac Mini and iPhone, we decided to completely delete the Tap Forms app and ~Library/Containers/com.tapzapp.tapforms-mac/ folder on the MacBook Air, hoping it would prompt a full re-sync from iCloud.
This appeared to happen normally, but the MacBook Air is still “short” and only showing the same 2848 records, not the 2894 we’d expect. While I presume we could fix this by doing an inconsequential edit to all 2894 records from the Mac Mini, we actually like having the “Date Modified” intact and would hate to lose it by having it updated to <present>.
Any ideas what might be cause our MacBook Air to continually fail to acquire/sync the ~50 or so records that appear to otherwise be intact in the database, but getting “ignored” by the MacBook Air?
Topic: Rename sample form
I’m new to TapForms and keep getting screwed by it. It imported my Bento info into a sample form that I can’t figure out how to rename and save. When I restarted my computer, my “sample” form was gone and replaced with a Finnish one. I thought this would operate similarly to Bento, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Any help anyone can give would be very much appreciated.
Topic: Need Bills to pay template
Does anyone have a template that would make a list of bill to pay and be able to attach them etc. Had a good one in Bento but lost it a long time ago
ThanksI tried to import a big Bento 4 template (1218 forms for 20 Gb) but nothing happens and the screen remains blocked on “0 on 1218” for hours. Is this normal ?
Topic: Consultation billing DB
Hello,
I am pretty new to Tapforms, coming from extensive use of MS Access on PC, some SQL, and minor Bento and Filemaker experience on Mac.I am going around in circles without finding a way to solve a problem in a relational database that I am designing for billing consultations.
Here is the basic design:
One form (Clients) contains the client information.
This is linked to a Form (Consultations) in a 1-many fashion as a client can have multiple consultations, and this works perfectly.
I created a form (Invoice) to send out the bills. It links 1 to many to the Consultations form and has a linked table for the consultations records.The Clients form links 1-many to Invoice as a client can have multiple invoices.
I would like to generate invoices for a client for consultations that are not yet billed (Billed field unchecked in the consultation record).
Currently in the Client form I can add an invoice, but the linked Consultations table in the Invoice form stays empty (I can however manually add the records).
Is there a way to automatically displaying the records of unbilled consultations for the client in the Invoice consultation table?
Ideally it would be grand to update to “checked” the billed consultation for the client upon finishing the invoice…
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you,
GLS