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[Menelaos Vasiliou]

Hi there,

I’m using tab forms for keeping track of my wine cellar. I need to create a save search to show me just the wines that have past their pick, based on the info provided in a date field “Best before” and I can’t figure out how to do that. In Bento I had a collection with the following rule applied:
“Best before” is before “Today”.
In Tab Forms, when I select the Comparison “is before”, the only available option in the value field is to select a specific date!

Any advice?

Thanks,
Menelaos

[Anonymous]

Hello Brendan

Have been using TapForms for a while now and love how it has evolved and grown on the Mac and IOS.

I know this question is really based upon the structure of the database but if a pick list could reference a field in another table for its values that would go a long way in the database. Right now a linked table cannot display its values in the column view.

As an example

I have a projects table and I link task, team members and logs to the project and to each other. If on the task list I have a pick list that referenced the Projects Table that field should be able to be included in the column sorting and other places where linked information would not currently show, or at least in my perfect world that is how it would work.

Not many databases offer this for pick list type fields but I think it would serve a great purpose!

Thanks for all of your hard work on TapFoms, it was a great find after Bento folded!

Ray

[Jorge Moro]

Hey Folks,
I just installed TF on my mac and my iPhone. I am having a dickens of a time synching. Both the air and the phone show as registered on the mac and on the phone. I click on the sync button at the bottom right of the air screen and it does “something” But NOTHING gets to the phone!!! I’m getting a tad desperate here as I have to do some work but I don’t want to do this in Bento.

I’ve tried resetting the synch twice, nothing happens. I’ve tried synching both dropbox and iCloud and neither seems to work. The MacAir and the iPhone are seeing each other so I’m totally confused here as to what’s going on. Anyone? Idea?

Many thanks
J

[Dean Catiis]

Hi Brendan,

I’ve recently bought the Mac and iPhone apps. Been testing them out before I completely switch. I am still using Bento for now in the real world until I am confident that the features I need work well, if not perfectly.

One thing that’s not working for me is sync (I’m using Dropbox). There’s probably just something that I am not doing correctly, since the articles and reviews I’ve read online say that sync works.

1. I make changes on my Mac and also on my iPhone, and the changes are not showing up on both devices accordingly. Records I add and/or update on one device do not get added/updated on the other device after I clicked on “sync” on both devices a few times.

2. One time, when I opened my iPhone app, I noticed that it was counting records down like the first time I imported my database into my iPhone. Does it do that every sync? I have a lot of records in my database, so this process I noticed took several minutes.

Thanks for your help and for always being very responsive in the forums!

Dean

[Cliff Tarrance]

I can’t speak for Brendan, but while I agree that feature would be *great*, I believe the problem is with Apple. This was a signature feature of the original Bento, and FileMaker eventually had to remove it because even they (as a subsidiary of Apple!) could no longer make it work because of how Address Book (now Contacts) handled syncing. I don’t know enough to describe the issue in detail, but what I gleaned was that contact records have no enduring id that other apps can depend on. So: no link, no sync!

[C Gill]

Also:

Please could someone help.

We have converted Bento 3 to Bento 4 [warning time limited software].

Exported to template, and ticked box to export records.

Photos have been imported BUT NOT text files e.g. WORD.doc and PAGES that were linked in previous Bento database.

Please advise how to migrate the links to these text documents. Thank you.

[C Gill]

We have begun to set up the TapForm database but much of my Bento material (some 700 records including .docs, jpgs etc.) has not come across properly.

I am rapidly becoming very disillusioned with the new system, but *hope* we may yet make it work.

Does anyone know how to IMPORT the attached documents and urls, please. And how to get rid of all the strings of hashtags where there should be text.

I absolutely loved Bento, and would really like to get over this hump.

Thank you.

P.S. Wondering why there doesn’t seem to be a TapForms dedicated help(phone)line …

[Brendan]

Hi Cliff,

Ya, I’ve seen all kinds of issues with Bento running on OS X 10.11. It very often just hangs up or crashes. So I keep Parallels and OS X 10.9 so that I can still run it.

Thanks,

Brendan

[Cliff Tarrance]

David, I’m glad you got it to work.

Brendan, I noticed you mentioned that you run Bento on a virtual machine with OS X 10.9. I still have Bento 4 installed on my Mac running OS X 10.11, and it seems to work fine, at least as far as opening the database and exporting records and templates. Is there some incompatibility with OS X >= 10.10 that I am unaware of? I don’t add any new data to Bento, but I have occasionally brought over libraries into Tap Forms if I needed to update them.

[David Gill]

Thank you, all, for this advice. In the end I dumped everything into Excel, output to csv, then imported using the old Bento template. Most things are there — so I need to tidy up at the edges.

For the record we were still on Bento 3. I was reluctant to update 3 to 4 with your link above in case I lost everything.

[Cliff Tarrance]

Well, that being the case, I’d say to any Bento users (pre version 4) that they should get the demo, export templates with data for all their libraries, and get it all running in Tap Forms! Don’t cling to Bento any longer. As Bones would say, “It’s dead, Jim.”

[Brendan]

Well, the problem with version 4 from the link above is it’s just a 30 day demo. So no, they don’t exactly let you upgrade. It’s just the demo version that can upgrade your 3.0 Bento database. I don’t know what would happen to your database after the demo expired. Fortunately I have a valid license that I’m able to run inside of Parallels running on OS X 10.9, so I can help customers convert their .bentodb files into .bentoTemplate files if they send me the .bentodb file.

[Cliff Tarrance]

Oh that’s cool, Brendan. I didn’t realize FileMaker was decent enough to let Bento users update to the last version even if they hadn’t bought it. A nice gesture after cutting us all loose! Anyway, I’m glad I ended up with Tap Forms, so Bento’s demise was not as bad as it seemed at first.

[Brendan]

Right, the Export Records option only appeared in Bento 4. Here’s a link to download the Bento 4 update which should have this:

http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/11182

Thanks,

Brendan

[Cliff Tarrance]

Possibly you don’t have the include records in template option if you don’t have the latest version of Bento. I think they added that in a later version. If you don’t have that, then you will have to export the records as text and import records in Tap Forms.