Good to hear – it’s the only thing keeping me using Bento.
Are we talking “soon” — or “next year”?
I did the same thing. Went to my backup MBP with Mavericks and installed Bento there. I exported my important libraries and imported them back into a fresh DB in Yosemite. Seems to work but I didn’t import everything back in.
I double hmmm…. you :-) because it should import location data. I wrote code to do that. It should just show the longitude and latitude values in the records.
If you send me an example Bento template you’re working with, I can give it a try here.
Thanks,
Brendan
If you create a “New Library Folder” in Bento and put all of your Bento libraries into that folder, then click on the folder, you can export that as a template. It will include all of the included forms into the same template export. Tap Forms knows about this structure and it will create a new Category with the name of the Library Folder from Bento and put all of your forms inside of it.
So it may be possible to do what you want because Tap Forms keeps track of all of the forms that it’s importing as part of the entire set of forms. It should be able to re-establish the links to all the records that way.
Thanks!
Brendan
I am very pleased with the general ability of Tap Forms to import data from exported Bento templates — I thought there was no way I’d ever be able to preserve my linked records from Bento!
But, I have a challenge. I have several Bento databases that have “related data” fields that point to one particular Bento database. For ease of discussion, let’s say I have “Food Experiences” and “Event Menus” databases that each have related data fields that point into the “Recipes” database.
Is there any way to import all 3 databases and preserve the links? As far as I can tell, I can only export one Bento database at time. I can start by exporting “Food Experiences” and say “yes” to including the related database “Recipes”. But when I go to export “Event Menus”, if I again say “yes”, I get a second copy of the Recipes database. If I say “no”, I get the expected “no links at all”.
I fully expect the answer is “no, there is no way to export all these as a bundle” (or import them, properly, as a bundle).
But, I thought I’d ask…
Hmmm… I don’t see “location” (gps) on that list, but it doesn’t seem to import to Tap Forms from my Bento template export?
Ah yes, I did have to dump all my old Bento data. But even after doing that, it still wouldn’t open in Preview 7. But it does not in Preview 8. But I really have nothing in there now and I use it just for testing my Bento import routine.
Hello TEIB,
In general, when purchasing for business, you would be using a different Apple ID for each computer. It’s all basically on the honour system. There is also the Apple Volume Purchase Program. If you’re using the same Apple ID for each computer, then you only have the option to install and not purchase if you’ve already purchased it on another computer.
You’re referring to the records list view. You can modify that by editing the form template and rearranging the fields by dragging them up and down. Bento templates generally import the Date Created and Date Modified as the first two fields. So by editing the template in Tap Forms you can change that.
There are tutorial videos on my support page which should help with that. Also see the online user manual available from the Help menu.
Thanks!
Brendan
Thanks so much for your helpful response!
How do we purchase multiple copies of the app under the same apple id? On the app store, we are just provided a button to install, not repurchase.
Also, importing from Bento looks different than expected… any advice or videos on how to show entries with names instead of the date that the entry was originally inputted into the system?
Appreciate your help:)
I had this trouble with Bento in Yosemite developer preview 7, but it was corrected in developer preview 8. So I’m not sure it’s going to be an issue going forward. I guess we’ll see once it goes golden master next month.
Increased sales would be great! I would love to be able to hire some help. :-)
Thanks!
Brendan
Bad news for Bento users, good news for Tapforms! It appears that Bento is now becoming buggy in Yosemite Beta 9 (they’re now on Beta 10). When you launch Bento it appears to hang while “Opening Database” and a window pops up that something to the effect of:
“ATOS must take control of another process, so that the debugging process can be continued. Enter your password to allow this.”
If you hold down the *alt* key you can choose a new empty database, but the screen flickers.
Maybe future releases of Yosemite may fix the problem, but I doubt it. It’s just a matter of time before OS X kills Bento, assuming it already hasn’t.
That’s the push I need to make the inevitable plunge into the world of Tapforms and delicious cloud synchronization (rather than the drudgery of manual synching in Bento).
Now to install Bento on my GF’s Mac and start exporting my data into Tapforms.
Brendan, what are you going to do with all the extra income? ;)
Oh, I just re-read your post. So when I changed the ‘audio’ field from bento from a media (which is recognized as photo in TFs) to a ‘file attachment’ field, it shows a file has been imported, but there is no way to open it.
It’s a nice program. I’m not sure it’s a deal breaker for me, but it will sure take a lot of work to reimport all the audio for each file.
Thanks Brendan. Yes, I just uploaded a file, and that works nicely. I have hundreds of files, though. So, if I rename my audio field in Bento to “file attachment” would that work to import the file, do you think?
Hi Caat,
You can use a File Attachment field to link an mp3 file to your records.
I haven’t written anything into Bento to import audio files specifically. But if your mp3 files are just file attachments in Bento, then they should import into Tap Forms.
Thanks,
Brendan
We are changing from Bento and would like to use TapForms for Mac on 3-4 computers all with the same apple id.
Wanted to find out how TapForms works when being used on multiple computers: when records are inputted on one computer, are they automatically updated on the other computers? Will records be editable on all computers? Can we use the app on multiple computers at the same time?
Also, where are the records stored? Only in the cloud where we are dependent on internet connection? Or are the records also stored on each machine?
Please let us know if there are any specific resources that will help us as we get started setting up the database so that items will sync across the computers (we aren’t using mobile devices at this time).
Thanks!!
