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[neal leggett]

Hi Brendan

Really interested in the new e-mail functionality. As this was a feature of Bento I really liked and I think asked you a while back if it can be included. I’d like to Beta test it if possible. Have not done this before. my e-mail is neal.leggett@ntlworld.com and mac ref is 4A56AC57-621C-5205-82E8-41C081956611

Neal

[Jan Cornell]

As mentioned, disappointingly my iPad Air 2 copy of Tap Forms (v 3.9.4) crashes instantly when I try to do anything related to iCloud sync, except it does allow me to enter a security code. Otherwise I’ve searched high & low & followed all the suggestions posted elsewhere. I get crashes when I try to enable iCloud sync and also when I try to do an iCloud sync reset. I have the latest versions of all operating systems & Tap Forms (forgot to mention I bought all 3 versions & the Mac & iPhone versions are working just fine, synced a large DB of my magic trick inventory exported from Bento into Tap Forms on the Mac qwith the iPhone 6 Plus). I did the hard reset thing and the uninstall/reinstall thing and the “how to get iCloud sync working again” instructions but no luck. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks & nice to meet everyoine,

Jan

[Brendan]

Hey there,

I could use a few more beta testers for the next update to Tap Forms Mac and iOS. If anyone is interested, please email me your Mac’s hardware UUID and email address you would like me to use for TestFlight (Apple’s beta testing system). I’m just looking for bug reports, crash reports, and any usability issues you find with the new release.

* Bento-like spreadsheet view for the records list view. You can select individual cells and edit them as you would in a spreadsheet program.
* Copy the contents of the values to the clipboard so you can paste into Excel or Numbers in a tab delimited format.
* “Email Selected Addresses…” command to address a new email to multiple selected recipients.
* Accessory views in the records list view for editing notes, dates, and for QuickLook of photo fields.
* Dropbox or iCloud sync (requires iOS beta version too)
* Multi-currency support
* Variable substitution in Website fields. That is, you can inject the value of another field into a website field.
* Ability to control the tab order of fields in your custom layouts. Just arrange the fields in the Layers tab up or down to control the tab order. From top to bottom in the layers list is how the tab ordering will go.
* Background colour can be set on a custom layout.
* Mac version can sync on a schedule.
* You can now set a colour to represent a Pick List value. Plus you can set the “Record Colour Field” on your form. When you do this, Tap Forms will place a coloured vertical line indicator next to the record in the records list view to give you another way of organizing your data. For example, if you had a todo list, you could have red for high priority, yellow for normal priority and green for low priority.

So let me know if you’re interested by sending me an email and I’ll email you the link to download the beta version.

Attached is a screenshot of the Mac beta.

Thanks!

Brendan

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[Brendan]

Hi Koen,

That’s coming in the next update. I have a whole new table view that’s much more Bento-like.

Thanks!

Brendan

[Koen Vits]

Hi! I just bought Tap Forms because Bento was getting a bit slow and unstable here. So far, I’m quite happy with this app, but there’s one feature that I really miss: I usually add data in the table view and in Bento I could move from text fields to checkboxes using the ‘tab’ key. In Tap Forms, this doesn’t seem possible, pressing tab skips the checkbox, and goes instantly to the next text field. Would it be possible to add this feature? It would make the app a lot easier to use!!

Thank you!

[Ed Bettencourt]

I think that would do it Brendan. Pretty much just what I had envisioned. With the key being to give an option to filter the related records to only show the ones that are currently parentless so that you don’t accidentally steal/move a location to a different wine. Without this (and like I said, Bento doesn’t do this either), I would be prevented from assigning a used storage bin to a new bottle which has happened several times by mistake. This ends up causing a cascading inventory glitch affecting, over time, more than just the one location. Really hard to correct once discovered too.

I can see other similar use cases for this too. Thanks Brendan for taking the time to consider this.

[Ed Bettencourt]

Is there a way to link to existing records in another form, but make each link exclusive to only one parent record? To make this clearer (hopefully) here’s my use case: I have a parent record which are wines. I have child records which are wine storage locations. These locations are pre-defined and limited since there are only so many locations. With a many to many link, I can associate different locations to different wines. Good so far. But ideally, I would like the child storage location records linked to ONLY one wine since I can’t store two wines in the same location. Kind of like a one to many link. In addition, when I drink a wine (Yay!), that location should now be made available so another wine can be linked to that location when I buy another one and put it there.

What I am basically looking for is a one to many record link, with the ability to link ONLY to existing records that aren’t already linked to another parent record. And then, as I de-link child records, those will be made available for linkage to other parent records. I know, theoretically this shouldn’t happen. But it does. This would be an added integrity feature/check.

I will be converting from Bento (tested the import in the demo version and it worked like a champ!). Bento seems similar to TF in that I can mistakenly link to a child record (wine location) that is already linked to another parent, so I’m not losing anything here moving to TF. Just was wondering if TF can, or maybe in the near future will, give me this added ability.

By the way, TF seems to be a great product. Easier and better than Bento in many ways – especially the iCloud sync. Wish I would have discovered TF earlier! Thanks.

[Luis GL]

Hi. This topic is old, but has but has been past almost three years and we still without table view on the iPad version. I think this feature will increase the value of the app. I still waiting for this feature to make the final jump from Bento to Tap Forms.

Any news?

Thanks ;)

[Colleen Easley]

OK, thanks. Got it, just one more step that I didn’t have to do with Bento. I guess the reason I didn’t have to do it with Bento was I never really exported the file, I just copied and pasted from the spreadsheet view.

[Colleen Easley]

My phone number field formats beautifully when I enter a 9 digit phone number i.e. (206) 542-8878, but when I export to an excel file, I just get 2065428878 – not pretty at all. Is there something I can do to make it format with the (area code) brackets, etc? In the example below, the ones with the brackets are ones I imported from Bento, the one without, I just entered.

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[Dominique PIERRE]

Brendan,

you mentioned

“Child forms don’t have access to the fields from their parent, so you won’t be able to create a formula in a Calculation field which references fields in the parent. Nor can parent forms reference the fields from child forms. A form can only reference the fields of itself. I’m very sorry for that.
But it’s definitely something I want to do to enhance the Calculation engine. Something like [Child Form:Total(Amount)]. Don’t try this though. It’s just a though and hasn’t been implemented.”

I just decided to start switching from Bento to Tap Forms, which I find interesting. But the ability to access to the content of any field in a linked form is really needed. It s very very convenient for proceeding with calculation taking into account values that are located in the liked form, or to automatically assign content to fields, using information from the linked form.

You mentioned that this is something you definitely want to do. Would you have any idea about when this could be available.

Thanks for your answer.

[brucel]

Hi Brendan
I have noticed some inconsistencies in the behaviour of fonts in Notes Fields between IOS devices and Mac.

I imported my db from Bento originally and it seems that most notes fields inherited the “system” font at 13pt. Having synced with several IOS devices, I find that when I now add a new record with a notes field on an IOS device that it appears in the Mac Version as Helvetica.
I have tried the trick above of setting the Mac default font to Helvetica 13pt in an effort to standardise the font across platforms.
Now I have a mix of system and helvetica across devices which seems to have little visual impact on the Mac but a significant impact on IOS making some notes fields fonts appear much smaller than others.

Is there any way to force the IOS version to use a particular default font as with Mac?

How does IOS and Mac determine what is the “system” font?

Thanks again for a great product!

regards
Bruce

[PatG]

I am about to switch from Bento and was manipulating your included various forms to see how they worked. I now want to find the database so I can delete it and start fresh again. Where is the database located?

[Brendan]

Hi Brent,

I’m glad the file I sent you worked for you. I’ve seen this one other time by one of my beta testers. The table that stored the Link to Form information ballooned to over 18,000,000 rows! I’m not sure how that happened. It may have been due to a Bento import gone wrong as most of the records were referencing Bento records. In any case, the link records were invalid since they didn’t have all the foreign keys setup right so I was easily able to delete them all. So consequently we reduced the file from 3.8 GB to 34 MB.

As for the difference in file size between your different devices now, it could just be a difference between the block size allocation on the different iOS devices. Or it could be that the one has had some activity on it already? The only true way to know if the files are the same size is to download the files again and then examine the number of bytes in the Finder on the Get Info view for each of your files. The byte count should be roughly the same.

[Hans S]

Former Bento user here. Happy to have found Tap Forms as a new home for our Bento records. And also great to see a developer (Brendan) so actively involved in connecting with their users.

My apologies if this has been answered elsewhere —

We had several Bento database sets that were on an iPad — not synced or connected with a Mac or any other devices.

Have successfully done the following:
-Transferred the Bento files from the iPad to a Mac.
-Exported the Bento files.
-Imported the Bento files into Tap Forms on the Mac.

Now we would like to transfer the Tap Forms forms back into the iPad, but want to avoid the sync process (Mac is not Yosemite, different iCloud accounts, and we simply don’t need sync) — we just need the forms on the iPad, not on the Mac.

Is there a way to export or send the forms from the Mac to the iPad, and be done with it?

Thanks!