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[T.L. Ford]

That is an incredible amount of calculations you’ve managed there. I’m still trying to figure out how you made it all work. Reminds me of some spreadsheets I’ve created.

I’m attaching an equivalent form done with scripts merely for comparison. It’s a different solution, not necessarily a better solution.

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[Daniel Leu]

Tap Forms needs a javascript call to refresh the form display (similar to the View | Refresh Records List menu item).

+1

I’ve been asking for such a feature for a long time… Nice to see someone else wanting it as well :)

Cheers, Daniel

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See https://lab.danielleu.com/tapformspro/ for scripts and tips&tricks

[T.L. Ford]

Tap Forms needs a javascript call to refresh the form display (similar to the View | Refresh Records List menu item). This would also solve a script on a many-side not correctly refreshing the view on the one-side.

Tried several ways (attached), but none are an acceptable solution.

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[T.L. Ford]

Not too sure what happened to my reply, so I’ll repost. I just got Tap Forms and am playing around with it and this request, although long deprecated, was an interesting challenge. Here’s my solution.

http://cattail.nu/tap_forms/Apothecary.tapforms.zip (2mb – it’s an archive with demo data and help table).

The data schema is attached here and shows the one-to-many relationships in use.

The calculation update is in one monolithic script and I’m now playing with record-level script fields.

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[Brendan]

Hi Roy,

Maybe you don’t need a script to do this. Have you tried just printing out the Default Layout and see what kind of output you get?

However, you can create a new field and select Script as the Field Type. Then select your Song Title field from the list of fields on the Script Editor. Then double-click on the Child Records Loop Snippet and Tap Forms will write the code for you to loop through all of the Songs for the selected record. Then all you need to do is concatenate them together into a single string and return that.

Something like:

function SongTitles() {

	var songs_id = 'fld-1ad42e9404674124aa6871c367249f1d';
	var song_title_id = 'fld-177726d9d3b44645941e6d6488bcfbd1';
	var songs = record.getFieldValue(songs_id);
	var song_titles = [];
	
	for (var index = 0, count = songs.length; index < count; index++){
     	var song_title = songs[index].getFieldValue(song_title_id);
		if (song_title) {
			song_titles.push(song_title);
		}
	}
	return song_titles.join("\n");
}

SongTitles();

[Brendan]

Actually you can now…

tapformz://form/view/db-xxx/frm-xxx

and you can execute scripts:

tapformz://script/db-xxx/frx-xxx/scriptName

[Christin White]

3. That’s a really good point, I guess what I’m really looking for throughout most of these questions/requests are ways of streamlining UI/data manually and contextually to fit the use and provide more flexibility. The nice thing is that Tap Forms seems to do almost everything I want it to functionally, the underlying data isn’t limited so I can adopt it now and hope for some more presentation control in future versions.

5. I was looking over the APIs after I posted that yesterday and it looks like it’s quite powerful, JS isn’t my favorite language in the world but getting better at it has long been on my todo list since JXA is used in a lot of my Mac automation tools and things like Scriptable and JSBox are so powerful on iOS if you want to go beyond just Shortcuts for automation (I like Python even less ?).

Ah, I went back and looked at the edit form and couldn’t figure out how I was deleting instead of saving, spam filtering makes sense, thanks for clarifying that.

[Victor Warner]

I would like to combine a Notes field with other in a script, but if the Notes field is empty I wish to display just the other fields.

I have created a test database with a test script as follows:

var notes_id = 'fld-9d8543d9d39f409194349c1a855d7728';
var notes = record.getFieldValue('fld-9d8543d9d39f409194349c1a855d7728');

var new_work_address_id = 'fld-943ab25fd0de42e7b8d1e5487c6a358b';
var new_work_address = record.getFieldValue('fld-943ab25fd0de42e7b8d1e5487c6a358b');

if (notes == "") {

result = new_work_address

} else {

result = new_work_address + "\n\n" + notes;

}

result

But if the Notes field is empty the result is the content of new_work_address plus plus the word ‘undefined’

Is there a way to test for whether a Notes field is empty?

[Sam Moffatt]

2. I’ve thought for a while that a custom layout using the default layout view but with the ability to re-order fields and hide ones that aren’t important would be an interesting addition and could provide a form of custom layout support on the mobile platforms as well. I used section headings to collapse down records and keep them clean during editing though that isn’t a good fit for your use case.

3. The problem is that those fields are still editable in the sense that they can create an entry on the other side of the link. I can see your use case though and I think an implementation path forward could be per record overrides for field settings which could hide the field just for that record via a script interaction (though that isn’t a feature that exists today).

5. TF uses Apple’s JavaScriptCore for the scripting so almost anything you can do in JavaScript you can do in Tap Forms. Check out the JavaScript API for details about Tap Forms specific functionality but you can manipulate almost any data item in the application via the scripting interface.

As an aside, editing the post generally gets caught by the antispam as that is a technique to change a post after it’s been visible to hide links in it. I’ve been caught a few times by it myself.

[Sam Moffatt]

That’s a limitation of that particular model because you can only link to a form record not an entry inside a table field. It looks like what you’re after is more the article than the magazine so if we pivot a little to make the ‘Articles’ their own form then you can skip the script and just use a Link to Field with JOIN and I think it’ll give you the read out you’re looking for.

Here is a new TFArc with a new Articles form setup as a Link to Form JOIN to the Keywords form and also setup with a Link to Form 1:M from Magazine to map that back. Inside of Articles I added two calculation fields to map down fields from the Magazine form into the Articles one which can be seen in the list view in Keywords. The existing fields are still there but with some renames.

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[Brendan]

Hi Rocky,

That’s interesting. I would have thought that if the record didn’t quality for the search results after the script is run, that’s why it would disappear. But you said that the script does not touch a field that’s in the list of search rules.

Would you be able to email me your form template so I can test it out here?

Thanks,

Brendan

[Rocky Machado]

Hi Brenden – Not sure if this is by design, but thought I would ask. I currently have a Trade Journal form layout that has a button which executes a script. I noticed that when I’m in a search filter and execute the script via the button click. I noticed the transaction disappears from my search filter list and I have to hit the refresh (recalc the search filter) button in order for my transaction to show up on my list again. The filter criteria for my search is based on a date/time field (looking at today transactions). The fields that I’m populating has nothing to do with the search filter so I am not quite sure why the transaction would disappear (unless it event driven). Is this the expected behavior? So to make this work, I have to click the button and then hit the recalc button for the record to reappear. I’m wording if I am doing something wrong. When I execute the script I do a form.saveallchange() for my changes to take effect.

thanks,
rocky

[Christin White]

Huh, okay, every time I try to edit my post it deletes it instead, sorry for the multiple pings, hopefully I’ve figured out the way to get the markdown to not collapse spaces and dashes, if not apologies for not being as clear as I’d like.

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Thanks Sam and Brendan!

1. Brendan’s suggestion worked for me, If I have trouble in the future I may look at those other sync services.

2. Hmm, that does make sense in this context and having a single form for media that can match some pre-selected types is a more elegant way to approach this, it just means each record will have a lot of superfluous fields specific to other types of media.

I hadn’t played with custom layouts yet, having done so now I feel like it’s a bit clunky and page/print-centric for me, I definitely prefer the more responsive UI design of the default layout, it’s a pity that it can’t be duplicated but some fields simply hidden or even just section headings collapsed for each layout.

3. That’s certainly a good idea but this was just an example, combining media types or people and companies into combined forms aren’t always going to work for every example, it would be nice if records could be toggled to simple hide unused inversely linked fields.

4. Along the same lines it would be sweet if *Many to Many* relationships with only a single link could collapse to a non-table view or a *Many to One* option existed.

5. I did a poor job articulating this but it looks like you got the idea. Basically, I want a tagging system tags can be nested and parent tabs inherent the items of their child tags like Bear does. So basically you get something like this:

Parent Tag 1 (Record 1, Record 2, Record 3)
  Child Tag 1 (Record 1, Record 2)
  Child Tag 2 (Record 3)

Bear does this by simple parsing tag names for slashes and extracting the tag structure from that but I’ve seen other apps implement it in other ways. Keep It does something that’s similar and creates some sort of implicit hierarchy from a flat list of tags. When you select a tag to filter by the tag panel then filters out any tags that aren’t designated in other items with the tag selected so you very quickly create structure through boolean unions.

Regardless, assuming Tap Forms’ scripting is capable of parsing regex expressions, assigning and removing tags programmatically I think the functionality I’m looking for could be implemented that way. I’ll definitely take a look at that example and think through your suggestion further, I think I’m still missing a little contextual experience with the application to entirely understand but it sounds like it’s worth a try. Thank you!

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Tap Forms seems like an awesome system, while not quite as flexible as I would like for some things, I certainly realize I may be an outlier on how I want to use it. With some care in how I design things and a certain amount of clutter I think its worth the investment and will work for me.

My goal was to move away from AirTable to something more native to the platforms I use every day and to escape the limits by subscription tiers and Tap Forms achieves both goals and does so quite well overall.

[Christin White]

Thanks Sam and Brendan!

Sam,

1. Brendan’s solution seems to have resolved the issue for now, if I have more trouble with things in the future I may look into those other services.
2. Hmm, I hadn’t considered this approach but having one form for all media seems like a more elegant solution than a bunch of forms, even if it means I have a ton irrelevant metadata for each record, I’m liking this better! I’m not much of a fan of custom layouts though, I hadn’t realized those were an option before you mentioned them but playing with it now it seems very paper/page-centric in design, not really UI-centric and responsive to different device screen sizes. I wish I could just take the default layout but just hide fields for each layout. I may play with this more but it seems to lack the elegance of the default layout. I’m definitely spoiled coming from AirTable in terms of design elegance, I just wanted something native and not limited by subscription pricing tiers.
3. Good point, certainly, but that was just an example, combining things like media types or companies and individuals may not always make sense. I can work around this but it’s a shame there isn’t more control.
4. I get that but it’s a pity it doesn’t collapse the table if there’s only a single relationship or a many to one option.
5. I’ll take a look at your scripting, I was having trouble describing the system in a clear way. Basically, I want a tagging system sort of like this

Parent Tag 1 (record 1, record 2, record 3 - collected/reverse inherited from children)
  Child Tag 1 (record 1, record 2)
  Child Tag 2 (record 3)

Bear parses tags by just using slashes in the tag names like Development/Languages/Javascript but that’s only one approach. Keep It for instance doesn’t do hierarchical tags but if you filter by a tag the tag panel will then show you other tags that associated with items that has that tag so hierarchy can be implied through boolean unions.

A programmatic solution where any record that is assigned Child Tag 1 would automatically tag it with Parent Tag 1 would certainly work if Tap Forms’ scripting support is robust enough parses regex expressions, assign and remove tags, it sounds like it is.

I need to explore a little more, look at that keyword mapping and figure out what you’re suggesting a bit better when I have more context.

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While not as flexible in some ways as I would like it seems like Tap Forms will work for me and is worth the investment, it is an awesome system and I realize I’m probably an outlier for some of the ways I want to use it

[pierrot_rennes]

Hi Sam,

I put only one keyword per article to keep it simple
If I really need a second keyword for the same item, I create a second record
Apparently, your script works according to my need.
I will test by adding some articles.
If it’s ok, I will start from your model to modify your form and adapt it to my needs
A big thank you for your responsiveness, I will tell you when it’s good