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[Thierry Dupont]

Hi,
pre-purchase questions:

1) i understand this is not a Bento support forum, but with the upgrade to Yosemite i can’t open my .bentodb file anymore and realise it’s about time i say farewell once and for all to Bento. Moreover, if i can’t recover that Bento db in the first place, there won’t be much need for Tapforms for me anymore of course. So, would you have any tips or ideas as to which would be the best way to try and recover my Bento database? :-//

2) does Tapforms support smartlists like bento did? A smartlist is a subset of the main database based on one or a combination (AND, OR, ….) of several filters.
For example: I had a smartlist that showed only my prospects (potential customers) which were not tagged as lost yet, AND of which the “recall date” field was set to today or a date later than today…
Is this possible?

3) Which brings me to a last question: is the parameter ‘today’s date’ available when creating calculations based on date & time?

Your feedback would be much appreciated and will hopefully help me move forward and come back and purchase a Tapforms licence really quickly!

Thierry

[Mark Lyon]

I like this program. Seems like a good Bento replacement. So, How can I achieve the following:

I’ve got a gasoline database with fields for: date, gallons, odometer, mileage

Then individual records for:
Monday’s date, gallons, odometer, mileage
Tuesday’s date, gallons, odometer, mileage
Wednesday’s date, gallons, odometer, mileage

To enter Tuesday’s mileage, I must subtract Monday’s odometer from Tuesday’s odometer. How can I do this? Formulas work only for individual records. I had the same problem with Bento. Never found an answer. Maybe I don’t have the right concept.

TIA

[RobertS]

I was pleased to find the find and replace function in Edits something that Bento never supported. Unfortunately I have not been able to find a way to use it in a form. Specifically I have a form with dates that after I review I would like to update with the current date. When I used Access before moving to Bento I would highlight the data and then type in the new data to be replaced and the program would go through and update the fields. I haven’t found any instructions on how to use the find, find and replace etc. for Tap Forms. How is this used?

[RobertS]

Is there a way to create a “new collection from selection” process as in Bento outside of advance search functions?

[RobertS]

Works for me Brandon. Thanks so much for the prompt reply. Bento was never like this.

[RobertS]

Is there a way to do a “starts with” advance search with Tap Forms as there was in Bento’s advance find?

[1Levite]

I’ll toss in my experience. I have about 13000 records each having about 30 fields of various kinds (but not very heavy in media). These used to reside in Bento 1, 2, 3, and 4. Bento was really chunky, if not coagulated, with this record set. After bringing these into TF and taking advantage of some more efficient form organization, I can report far faster response (with TF) on my old chunky 2007 iMac. Superb performance on our modern macbook air. You should be fine with a growing recipe collection, in my opinion.

[Brendan]

I’ve split your question to a new topic because it has nothing to do with the topic you posted it to.

Tap Forms does support importing the Bento RelatedData field type as long as you export your template and include all of your related forms in the same template export.

What it doesn’t support is the Simple List field type, which is what your screenshot looks like.

Thanks!

Brendan

[sarah bob]

Hi I have been looking into purchasing your Apps for Mac, iPhone and iPad. I currently use Bento for a recipe collection and am aware I need to move. Each record is a recipe and has various fields which I can search for e.g. ingredients, month, vegetarian, course, kids, etc. If it is from a magazine I scan it and have the PDF file link in the record. I currently have 1,638 recipes and a massive pile to add!
Q1 How big can I go with Tap forms (I seem to remember Bento could go to 10 or 20,000?)
Q2 Will I be able to link PDF files to the record? I don’t do the thing were you can see the PDF in the record, I just double click and the PDF opens. Sorry if that isn’t very technical, I don’t know the lingo!

Thanks

[TEIB]

Hi Brendan,

Wondering if you have any advice for bringing in related data fields from Bento (please see attached). It appears that tap forms doesn’t have a similar field-type, so anything that was in a related data field simply didn’t transfer over at all and there is a blank space appearing.

Thanks!! Appreciate it:)

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[Christian]

Hi

I’m currently re-building a database in tap forms, which I used with bento. Most of the things work pretty good or even better.

One thing I haven’t found so far is a way to display a calculated field from a linked form in my main form. In the attached screenshot, I have an example from my Bento file.
Basically I have a calculated field in my main form which is called “Anzahl Aufgaben” (Number of tasks). The calculation is in the form Operation | Form | Field, in this case I have the count of values in the field Titel in the related Aufgaben Library.

Is it possible to do this with tap forms, and if so, how?

Thank you for your help
Christian

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[Eric Ravilious]

Folks

Thanks so much for the help. It bodes well that theres this sort of support. The thing I really disliked about Bento was its lack of cloud sync, it also wasn’t a true relational database. So i’m pleased to discover Tap forms.

Ive got to the bottom of it I think. I believe when I first installed ios8 on my ipad I inadvertently enabled icloud drive. due to problems with a few apps I reverted to ios7 during the short window when you could but of course the damage was done. Ive installed the yosemite beta and ios8 again and Tap forms sync seems to be working as it should. Ill come back if there are any further problems.

Thanks again for the trouble

Stephen

[Frank Tikket]

Try to upgrade to ios8 and make sure you “do NOT upgrade to iCloud drive”

1. Make sure all devices are using the same iCloud account.

2. Delete all prior sync by clicking “reset iCloud sync” on every device

3. Then go to each device and “enable iCloud sync”….. Do just one device first and WAIT until that device appears on the devices list on your other devices. Once it does enable the next device (do not click the sync button yet)

4. Once you see all your devices listed out on all your devices as enabled sync devices…. Then go to the device where your main data is and hit sync. Depending on your data size and Internet speed, you will have to wait, then wait some more…. Maybe 10-15min… Eventually you should see rows and columns syncing into your empty devices, again it could take a bit of time to finish.

5. Once finished future syncs are a snap.

That’s it, welcome to tap forms… A newer, cleaner, smarter and more powerful database then bento… Offering lots of support too ;-)

[TEIB]

Thanks so much for your response! We will get back to that.

Wanted to ask you a more important question as we get our system up and running from Bento:

Can Tap Forms do calculations? For example, when we brought over our product inventory to Tap Forms, there are now entries for each day data was inputted. We need all products with their current inventory to calculate and show, like in the attached screen shot. This way we know when we need to reorder products, etc.

Please let us know what we can do as a solution. Thanks!!!

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[TEIB]

Thanks for all of your help so that we can get this system up-and-running!

Wanted to ask if you have a feature that resembles the smart lists in Bento? In our address book, we indicate which programs clients participate in with a drop down menu. Then, based on the programs selected in the address book, smart lists are generated that contain all the participants in each program.

Please let us know if and how this would be possible.

Thanks!