Hi Brendan,
First of all, thanks for your reply.
I have indeed now used the Bento Template Importer option as described and it worked without a hitch.
So thanks for the tip and for acknowledging the issue. Perhaps you should consider naming the feature “Bento Template and record importer” since I overlooked the fact that it could import actual databases/records and not only templatess. Since my template was trivial to create on Tap Forms, I thought I didn’t need to transfer it from Bento and went on to the CSV option to transfer the records themselves.
Unrelated to that (let me know if you want me to create a new topic for this) I have a few comments after importing my database:
1) On multi-column view, the “Date Created” and “Date Modified” columns do not display the date at all (except the first few ones) although the records themselves do now contain the correct dates (verified in single column view). Instead, they are simply blank.
edit: I just found out that the records that *do* show the dates on multi-column views are the ones that have been at least *viewed* once on single-column view. Could this be a bug?
2) On multi-column view, is there a way to hide the “<Month> <Year>” separators that appear in between records when the month changes?
Thanks in advance!
czuch
I just fixed this bug yesterday. It will be in the next update.
However, you’d have much better success importing the Bento template directly rather than using CSV as the intermediary format.
Thanks!
Brendan
Hi there,
I am trying to import a simple database from Bento using CSV as an intermediate format. Everything goes well except for the “Create Date” and “Modified Date” fields. I select the proper options and formats in the “Import Records” dialog but once the database is imported into Tap Forms, the Create and Modify Dates of all my records are set to the date (and time) at which I performed the import, and not the ones exported by Bento and that I can clearly see by editing the .csv file with a text editor.
Here’s the first 2 lines of my CSV file:
“Date Created”;”Date Modified”;palabra;definición
2011-05-19T00:29:16;2011-05-19T00:29:16;exiguo;”insuficiente, escaso”
And attached you can see a screenshot of both the import dialog options and the result of importing for the particular line of the CSV shown above.
Thanks in advance!
czuch
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Hi
Is it possible to use the above to print multiple address labels per sheet? Is there someone out there who could help me if it is? Somehow I doubt it! Don’t want to spend out on a separate app, unless anyone can point me in the direction of open source / free? Have tried Avery.com and don’t like it.
Cheers
tonyt
I am a former Bento user and am now going to migrate to Tap Forms. I plan to keep a number of databases in the program for Mac, iPhone & iPad … such as movies owned, books owned, home inventory, client records, etc.
Is there a maximum number of total records one can have in a database or in the total of all databases? Does having more records slow the program down? Any other information regarding how the program stores and retrieves records as related to performance would be much appreciated.
THANKS.
rOBB
Brendan-
Ah! Totally obvious — once you know it’s there! :-) I’ll remember it from now on.
Great product btw! Appreciate having something to turn to after being abandoned with Bento, and *really* appreciate your migration tips.
-Jack
I don’t know the preferred method or know what goes into various search method logic, but I would assume that “ssipp” would need to produce instances of Mississippi considering the way words are combined, truncated, camelHumped, and so on in file names, email addresses, urls, and more.
I apologize for being relatively new and naive to Tap Forms and for the expectations I bring coming into the arena. With Bento on the way out, you carry the torch.
Is it possible to make a database readonly? Or more importantly, if a database is already readonly (through a process somewhat mysterious, but probably something I did when I was playing with Tap Forms after I installed it on my iPhone5), how do I unlock it? The synch works fine, so changes on the Mac and iPad come through fine, but attempting to change any field in any form on the iPhone yields no result (not even edits that do not get saved — just no attempt to make any edit at all).
Or is this an “uninstall and reinstall and synch” thing?
BTW, other than a couple quirks (this one, and a synch problem that turned out to be something I did, and was fixed thanks to a tip on found on this website) I have been very successful in transferring my Bento data to Tap Forms. Great UI, and I can now synch three iDevices!
Hello Everyone- Thought I’d share the power of TapForms 2.0 layout editor.
I’m an x-Bento user and switched to Tapforms. Very very happy I’m off the restraint of Bento and on TapForms.
As an example of TapForms flexibility, I’ve enclosed a picture of an invoicing solution I built in TapForms. Not totally complete, but it only took me about an hour. Don’t think Bento could have done this as well or easily.
Thoughts, tips, advice, or ideas?
Thought it would be good to bring this discussion up so we can all learn from each other.
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Hi Brendan
Are there any plans to bring the forms layout functionality to IOS?
This is about the only feature I miss from Bento.
Kind regards
John
I use that function in Bento to show me a list of entries that meet all the criterea. When I search movies that are comedies with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Charlie Sheen, I can get very specific results.
If you can replicate that, I’d say it would be a good feature in days to come.
Thank you for your quick reply.
Hi Steven,
You’re right, Tap Forms isn’t searching the same way that Bento did. What it’s doing is searching the field values for matches, but as soon as it finds a field value that matches one or more terms and no other field values contain those exact search terms, it ignores other field values in other fields.
So for example, if you have a single record which has a field which contains “day night” and another field in the same record that contains “cat dog”, then when you type “day night”, Tap Forms will return the record. If you type “cat dog” it will also return the record. But if you type “cat dog day night”, it will not return the record because there’s no one single field value within your record which contains all the terms “cat dog day night” in any order. All terms without quotes otherwise Tap Forms will treat it as an exact phrase search.
I hope that clears it up. I’m sure I could change that to make it work more like Bento. But that’s a down the road type thing.
Thanks!
Brendan
I’m moving from Bento and getting acquainted with Tap Forms. In Bento, I can search a database for multiple terms and it will bring up results that include all and only all those terms and in any order.
I haven’t been able to do the same in Tap Forms.
For example, if I search for this: day night cat dog , Bento will display my entries that have those four terms somewhere in the record and in any order. However, in Tap Forms, it appears to regard my search as a single search term and shows zero results. Is there a way to get Tap Forms to behave as I describe Bento doing regarding this sort of search?
Brendon – First, I think I confused Bento Collections with Bento Forms, which changes my question.
I imported a Bento Library — Travel RV — into TapForms. The library has three forms (which I gather are layouts in TapForms), and fifteen collections (see attached file 1-Bento to see Bento on the Mac), and from what you are saying, the collections are not imported & I have to recreate them as searches.
In the Mac version of the TapForms the three forms/layouts are imported as they appear in Bento (see attached files 3. However, when I send the file to the iPad with iCloud, the only layout is default (see attached file 6-Bento-iPad for Bento version on the iPad, and file 7-iPad for what TapForms version).
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Oh great, thanks for the info! The demo was very useful. I’m about to purchase the whole suite of TapForms apps, but am going to recreate a basic version of all my Bento in Tap Forma to make sure it will do what I want it to. The more I use it, the more cool features I find that I wished Bento had.
Keep up the good work!
