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[Eike Formella]

Hi,

I’d wish that there was a way to do the following things:

1.) I have built a database of collected song-scores I sing with my choirs. There are fields for the Composer, the Lyric-Writer and the Arranger – sometimes same sometimes different persons. Now I’d like to have a way to set a relationship to a second database, where I could save further informations about this persons (Birthday, Place of birth and so on).

Okay – I could set a normal relationship to a second database. But then I always get a table for each person – that doesn’t look very nice ;)

2.) It would be another way to add a additional table column in the relationship-table wich only exists in the first database. On this way I could build a relationship to the person-database and add the information of the song (Composer, Arranger …) in the first. I do remember that it was possible in Bento to expand such tables.
That would be also handy for this example – I have a database of workshops. There I want to have a relationship-table of the members of the workshop. Up here no problem. (Contact database as source) But when I want to add the information if the single members have paid their contribution, I don’t see a way to do this.

Any ideas to do this on a other way?

Greetings from Germany, Eike

PS: Sorry for mistakes! I give my best to write english without the help of google ;)

[Bob Bower]

Hi Brendan,
Got to share a quirk with you. I have a fairly complex Single View Mode Layout. I changed 5 fields from number to calculation field type. I deleted the old number fields, renamed them and placed the new calculation fields in the layout. But the fields wouldn’t show up in my custom layout. Not in Form Mode after I placed them. I made a backup, switched to default layout, used edit and save in Form Mode. They were not “there” in any fashion displaying the correct calculation except, oddly, the subsequent calculation field display the correct, modified amount. I tried everything to make them show. They finally appeared when I went back to each calculation field and hit the Calculation field type button and kind of “recharged” it. It gave me the serious warning that data may disappear that you always get when changing most fields to another type (hence my reluctance to say yes to that dialogue.) I’m curious as to why re-choosing the Calculation field type (even though it was showing that they were already Calculation Fields) was necessary. It seems the first time I changed from the Number Field to the Calculation field didn’t really get executed. Not sure why I had to do it again, after much frustration and time lost.

Also, separately, it appears to me that sometimes using Currency Style is hard to make the dollar sign show up. I’ve successfully made it show up on some fields but not others. For instance, they show easily on some calculation fields, but not on some number fields, no matter what options I try. There seem to three options I can set: 1. Obviously, selecting Number Style with Currency Style option is the first step. Then 2. I can leave Currency as Unspecified or choose US Dollar. And then 3. finally I can select either 0 or 2 decimal places. As said, I have done it successfully with some fields but I can’t seem to replicate my success on other fields. In Default display layout it works perfectly but in my rather complex Single Mode View form it doesn’t seem to show up. It don’t believe it’s because the fields (where it doesn’t work) are too narrow. Is there a combo of settings that’s fast and reliable where the dollar sign appears? Again, I’ve tried every kind of refresh I know, like saving in Form Mode from Edit Mode, making a back up and closing and reopening the file, switching to default mode, etc.

I have few other foibles but that’s enough for now.

Still love the software. You guys are geniuses. A multi-billion dollar couldn’t do it, but you could! How’s that for small business innovation? Bento was crap compared to this—and I loved Bento at the time too!

Is there a way I can share my whole database with you… so you can see where I’m going wrong with these little things?

Cheers

Bob

[Jim Haar]

Sorry if this is a newbie question … is there a way to edit Mac contacts from within TF5? Like how Bento used to work?

I’ve created a contact field, can select and see some contact details, but can’t seem to edit the contact record.

Thanks.

[George Middleton]

Thank you so much Brendan for the rapid support response!

All is fixed and I’m up and running, learning how to edit my layout as we speak.
Who would have thought the export file from Bento would have contained invalid characters?!

[Brendan]

I corrected the Template.xml file embedded within the .bentoTemplate file. Had to remove a bunch of invalid characters. It imported fine after that.

[Brendan]

Sounds like a problem with the embedded Template.xml file that’s inside the .bentoTemplate file. I would need to take a look at it to see exactly what the problem is. Probably just an invalid character at that location described by the error message.

[George Middleton]

I’m having a similar issue using Tap Forms 5 where no records are imported from a Bento 4.1.2 .bentoTemplate file.
As shown in the attached screenshot, the import completes “successfully” but also returns an error message. After the import, the “Pick Lists” sheet does show 5 of the approximately 20 different “choice” type fields in my Bento db with their corresponding values, but that’s about all I see that was imported… No actual records at all. Any thoughts on what to try to achieve a successful import?

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[George Middleton]

Same problem here- import Bento template command grayed out..
Hoping to import my Bento db..
Thanks!

[Dave Wilson]

Progress report, a couple of days later!
Having got my data onto my iPhone (useful sometimes as it stops me buying a duplicate book in a shop!) I struggled to get the library onto my iPad – on my Mac it found the device, my iPad asked if I wanted to accept the data – I responded but the Mac (Mac Pro early 2008, El Capitan) only reported “Waiting” with nothing happening. A little later I sent the data from my phone the pad with no problem. In passing, I was impressed with the fact that transferred my saved search requests from the Mac master file to both devices.
I’ve just, I think told all 3 devices to sync with each other.
So far, so good – almost totally smoothly!

OK, so, one question which I’m sure is trivial! When does syncing occur, is it automatic when the db is open on all machines or does it need to be ‘forced’, as Bento insisted on?

[Dave Wilson]

I thought that I had better register for the forum as I’ve only been reading at odd times so far.
I’ve been using Tap Forms since the demise of Bento, but only committed to Tap Forms the other day – I had been running Bento and Tap Forms in parallel, as it were, whilst Bento continued to sync to my iPhone and iPad. With the recent nearby sync addition with version 5 it was clearly time to commit. So far, so good with my book library database on my phone. The next test will be after I buy more books to test the syncing.
I’m grateful that the developer produced this as I certainly couldn’t justify the expense of Filemaker, my db of choice before I retired

[Bob Bower]

Hi Brandan,
Awesome job you guys do supporting amazing Tap Forms! I can’t see a post or solution after many searches: how to adjust line spacing or leading in text or notes with multiples lines of text? I need to match an existing form that I’ve imported as a background and lay my fields over it to match. All is well until I tried matching multiple lines of text. The only way I see is to fin a typeface or font with inbuilt leading that matches. It’s OK but not so consistent to use a different font. Any ideas? Pleae see attached screen shot. Tap Froms is a life-saver and so much better than Bento!. Truly awesome. Geniuses created this! Cheers, Bob

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[John Richards]

Thank you for the reply. I have only been using Tap Forms for 2 days, having come over from Bento. Some of the terms are different and procedures will take some time to get conformable with the new program.
I appreciate the ability to import Bento, the ton of video tutorials, and especially the ability to sync between my MacBook, iMac and iPhone.

[Ron Statz]

I was wondering of either or both of these two features would be possible in Tapforms:

1. When you leave a form and come back to it later, you would start at the last record viewed in that form rather than the first record.

and

2. If there is a photo in a relational record link, if you click on it and hit the space bar, the image would expand (similar) to the view function in the current record. We were able to do that in Bento.

[Brendan]

Hi Michael,

Tap Forms does a best guess effort at migrating the layout from Bento to Tap Forms. So you will probably need to tweak it after you do the import.

You have full flexibility in how you want Tap Forms to sort your records and what fields get displayed on the records list view. Click the Form button in the toolbar and then you’ll see the Sort & Group Settings screen plus the Fields tab where you can change the order of the fields in order to be able to see just the information you want to see on the records list view.

[Michael Strahan]

New user here. Trying to import a Bento database, but the “Import Bento Template” function under the “File” menu is grayed out. In fact, all the import functions are grayed out.

Can anyone provide some direction on this? I have a great tutorial on how to to the import, it’s just that the import functions in Tap Forms 5 appear to be inop.

Thanks!