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[bigcaat]

Hi

I’ve been using Bento for years. I just downloaded TapForms demo and imported a few files. Everything seems to be there (mixed up, but there) EXCEPT the audio. I record my sessions with my clients and keep the mp3 files in their database record. Is importing audio from Bento not possible?

I then tried to just import directly from my computer and it seems that you can only record audio straight. Is that right? Is it not possible to import mp3 into the record? I find that hard to believe. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Caat

[neal leggett]

Hi

I’m an ex Bento user. I find TapForms awesome perfect for my small business needs.

However there was one cool feature in Bento which was the ability to select multiple e-mails and send an email to those selected only.

Have I missed this in TapForms or does it not exist. Can it be added.

I do use mailchimp also but sometimes I just need to zap a quick mail to a few students.
e.g. I have 50 students. 5 have just joined my Band Club. I created a saved search for Band Club Members and now it would be nice to select their emails and just write one mail and send to them all in one go. All my students have agreed to receive email from me anyway.

I think I have explained myself

Can this be done?

N

[Barbara Murray]

I have some verrrry large data bases going back several years. Having the entire DB sync seems like it might be burdensome and use more space than ideal. Is there a way to subdivide DBs, so one can sync (or send to cloud) only part of a DB? For example, Records 2010, Records 2011, Records 2012, Records 2013, Records 2014 might be the subsections. I might want to put only 2014 into the cloud. I’d like to have the option of searching the ENTIRE DB on occasion (all years), but sometimes only 2014. Is that possible currently? If so, how?

I’m just learning Tap Forms, and so far am pleasantly surprised at the quality of the program, and particularly the ease of moving in Bento DBs. Thank you for your continued improvements!
Barb

[gkuehn]

To be honest this makes the function of my database really tedious. When I try this and I still need to further filter my results I have to start a new search, I don’t see that I can save my place.

In my Bento database I added a section called “keywords” in this section I would add a search term if it did not occur in the other fields, for example “Bolt Pieces” is a series of sculptures, so if a work was part of a different series, but but I wanted it to come up in my search results for bolt, I would add this as a keyword. When I add bolt as a search term under “keywords” and “series” I only get results that contain bolt in both fields, otherwise it seems I can only search one field at a time.

I don’t see the “All Forms” button that you mention above…

Thanks, I appreciate your fast reply!
Cindy

[Brendan]

Hello Cindy,

Have you tried the advanced search in order to build up these kinds of queries? You can get to it by clicking on the search button just to the left of the Search field. Although I understand that it wouldn’t be as convenient as the way Bento handled searches. This is still something I haven’t had a chance to work on yet. I’ve still got lots of compatibility work to do before the release of Yosemite and iOS 8.

Thanks,

Brendan

[gkuehn]

Hi, I think my question relates to this. My bento database was set up so that there were keywords in different fields that I might search for. For example 1960s + Sculpture + Steel or 1960s + Sculpture + Wood or 1980s + Painting + Enamel. I’m not able to locate works in my Tap forms database because the search bar does not seem to function this way. I have 2,500 records of artwork, most of them are untitled and I need a way to locate the work. Please advise. Thank you.

Cindy

[gkuehn]

Hi, I’m using the demo version of Tap Forms. I just imported a Bento database which is an image archive of an artists work. I need to be able to browse by thumbnails. The title of my image field is “media” but the images do not display in multi-column view, however the work “media” is listed for each record. In single-column view the thumbnails are too small to see although I have selected the largest thumbnail size in field properties.

I’ve read in other forums that a grid view like Bento’s is being considered. I would LOVE this, in the meantime I just need the thumbnails to display as they seem to in the Tap Forms video demonstrations that I’ve seen for movie databases.

Thanks so much!!
Cindy

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[Christine Murdoch]

Dear Brendan,
I have taken a screen shot of Bento before I tried to import to Tap Forms. I was able to import the libraries “St Modan’s Roll”, “Craigrownie Roll” & “Garelochhead Roll”. None of the other libraries imported the records along with the library. In other words I had the library with no records. I don’t have a screen shot of those as I deleted them, exported the Bento libraries as CVS files and then imported to Tap Forms.
Thanks

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[duncan langford]

Another Bento user in trouble…

I need a scrolling display of three (short) text fields, so that 20 or so lines (of the three) are displayed on screen.

Bento seems to do this by default; my – old – Filemaker offered a simple display as an option… but I really can’t see how to get this simple layout on my shiny new TapForms.

Help!

(MacBook Air)

[Geoffrey Aldrich]

Greetings,
I’ve just recently stumbled across this program, and it looks very promising for my needs. I’ve been looking for a proper database application for a while, and I thought that Bento would be a good fit for me. However, it was not a relational database and then FileMaker discontinued it, and I didn’t want my data trapped in an orphaned format.

I’m planning on using Tap Forms to catalog my currency collection. I’m also accustomed to relational databases (I’ve previously developed Microsoft Access databases as a part of my job as a software engineer). However, I’m a little baffled about how linking records (relational database) works in Tap Forms.

In currency collection, there are always particular attributes about a particular note that are shared across other notes of the same series (say a $1 Federal Reserve Note dated 2009) all have the signature of Treasurer Rios and Secretary of the Treasury Geithner. In addition, there is an range of dates where the print run was made.

In my database, I’d like to have a field called “Series” that could be (and likely should be) a pick list. Once I make a selection from the pick list, I’d like Tap Forms to automatically populate other fields in the record (such as the aforementioned Treasurer and Secretary of the Treasury). However, I have not been able to find a way to do this.

I presume that I would start by making a separate “form” (otherwise called a data table in database lingo) that contains all of the data about the series that would auto-populate. Beyond that, I don’t know where else to go.

I appreciate any help you can offer.

Regards,
Geoffrey

[Brendan]

Hi Christine,

You will need Bento version 4.1.2 in order to export the records along with your template.

There’s a link to the Bento 4.1.2 download in the online user manual.

Thanks!

Brendan

[Christine Murdoch]

I can work round this by exporting a cdv file from Bento and importing that into Tap Forms.

[Christine Murdoch]

I have just started using Tap Forms and have quite a strange issue. I can import templates complete with records from Bento, providing the original library was not in a folder or does not contain a collection. I have tried moving the libraries out of folders and restarting Bento, but that still does not help. Tap Forms does import the template, but not the records which is what I really need.
Any help would be appreciated. Many thanks.

[Brendan]

In the next update, the Bento Address fields will be imported and a separate Text field will be created for each component of the address.

My ETA for the next update is sometime around the release of OS X Yosemite.

Thanks,

Brendan

[Carl Leivers]

Hi there!

I’m trying to transfer all my work over from Bento, and so far I have been very happy with the program — thanks for putting in all the work!

One thing is giving me trouble, however.

I keep a form that I call “work record” where I put all the details of the jobs I do for clients (date, task, duration, rate, etc.). I’ve created a new form to create an invoice. I made a “link to form” field, selected “many to many” and linked it to the “work record” form.

Then I created a new layout so that I could email clients nice looking invoices where I just select all the work I’ve done for them each month. The problem is that when I create the PDF the “sigma” symbol is still showing up under the “work record” field. All the other symbols associated with the field are gone (which is great — that’s what I’d like!), but I’m left with a lone sigma which seems out of place on the invoice.

I’ve attached a PDF of what I’m referring to.

Any thoughts on how I can get this to go away?

Thanks!

Carl

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