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[Gary Ownsby]

Good Morning All,

As many of us near the end of the Cloudant Sync Service, while my wife and I still love Tap Forms, we’re both disappointed that a more simplified approach to replacing Cloudant isn’t available by now. While I can appreciate that the best minds and experts in Tap Form usage have no doubt examined many options, the ability to sync between devices is widely used now and I’ve never had to go this level of effort to have my data available to me on various devices. IMHO there must be a better approach that requires less of a technical approach to sharing/syncing data

I never cared too much for using the Cloudant-type approach anyway as it made those that simply needed to organize their data to become technicians more than users. While I understand that Tap Forms isn’t an “appliance” mode app today, perhaps it should focus on user simplicity for acquiring/managing data and leave the “heavier lifting” to those with the technical skills (and desire) to do things like data backup/sync? Or to make those functions super simple.

I’m not sure what the long-term business model is for Tap Forms but perhaps it’s time to consider offering users the option for data sync that would be managed by Tap Forms via a subscription process. Others with the technical skills or desire to do it themselves could continue on as done now.

Please don’t get me wrong, my wife & I are avid users of Tap Forms but the sync process is a bit of a weak link in the product for wishing a more simplified, less technical approach to doing a function which is very mainstream in today’s technical world. Yeah, I’m one of those that flip the wall switch and the lights come one. I don’t care about the how so much as long as it happens and is affordable.

Thank you.

Gary

[John Scoble]

Hi Brendan

I think there appears to be an error in the Function Description for the Concat formula.

The description indicates that the difference parameters should be linked by a semi-colon “;”. However, this does not work.

The on-line Help file says the parameters should be linked with a plus sign “+”. This does work.

With best wishes

John

[prov0356]

Hi Brendan,
I would like to request an enhancement to the Web Site field type to have a Description sub-field similar to the Address sub-field of the Location field type. That way, I can give it descriptive text like I can on a Location field.
Thanks.

[scneophyte]

Apologies to Aik for taking over their thread

Yes, I have already run it as a shell script but Automator can run shell scripts and I could, theoretically, create a workflow that I could initiate from Numbers: Export current table to CSV then execute the python program to selectively extract records.

Wouldn’t be hard; just don’t have the spare time to devote to learning it.

[Jose Monteiro]

Hi scneophyte,

I’m glad that my suggestion could help you.
I do not know how Automator works; someday day I’ll have to read about it.
Anyway I do not know exactly what problem you have to solve.
Perhaps some mix of a shell script and python program could help you getting the automation you need.

Jose

[Brendan]

Hi Eddzo,

To get 3 photos on a custom layout you would need to have 3 different Photo fields. For the Description you would just need to add 3 Note fields (or Text fields if the text amount will be small) and place them beneath your photos.

I’m not really sure what you mean by “if we could automate it” though.

Thanks!

Brendan

[Eddzo]

I love tapforms

I’m an Electrician and I would like to be able to make troubleshooting reports in the layout tool.

I would basically put my letterhead, contact info
Then below would be a series of images 3 across with descriptions of the issue.

I can accomplish this on the Mac, but it’s more free hand.
Can’t figure out how to place image holders from the form, it only uses one photo.

But if I use the camera button, I can add any image on my Mac…

Would be cool if we could automate it, just not sure how since all the images are in a container and there no way to tie a description to each image…. ?

Any idea.. ?
I can still make it happen but it’s not data coming from my database.
Still cool as hell none the less ????

[Brendan]

And the field title (Mac version only) will display the contents of that field description when you hover over it as a tooltip.

[scneophyte]

I have several join fields on most every form. In my design, I try to keep them all in a “Join Fields” section; however, there are time when it is better design to have them somewhere else. Now, in the description field, I can indicate if a field is a join field.

It is so helpful, thanks!

[sweejin]

Hi Brendon!

Thanks for the latest 5.2.5 update. It’s EXACTLY the two features that were on my mind the past few weeks; I had been thinking a lot that I wish I could collapse an entire section heading since my forms are so lengthy, and also I had wished for a description field so that my field titles needn’t be so wordy. Lo and behold, you added these features today, lol!

I would like to request a sub-section heading to the field type in a future update. I have many section headings in my forms, but a few are actually the main section heading while others are sub-section headings. Would it be possible to implement a sub-section heading, so that when I collapse the main section heading, every heading under that tree will collapse?

Thanks, really loving Tap Forms and the work you do!

Best,

Swee Jin

[Dave]

Great! I actually found a similar script, but it worked. One more quick question… if I import a field that contains number values from 1 to 10, can I import that data into a Ratings field?

[Brendan]

Well, there’s no scripting functionality in Tap Forms right now, but you can add a Website field to any form and there’s a button there which will open the URL when you click on it.

And if you put a field name within square brackets, Tap Forms will substitute that value into the URL.

So you could create a Website field that has a Default Value set to something like:

http://www.somewebsite.com/someaction/[Serial Number]

Then when you click on the website button next to the Website field, Tap Forms will substitute the value from the Serial Number field. So that’s a way of having a dynamically generated URL.

Hope that helps a bit.

Thanks!

Brendan

[captain]

Hi there, been a very satisfied user of TapForms so far, brilliant stuff, allowed me to organise my repair-business fantastically.

I have created a good database that allows me to store customer’s details and the machines’ details they hand in for repair.
I work a lot with serial numbers of computers, and it would be very nice if I could create a button that opens up a script (that, in turn runs a certain URL to do a lookup on a serialnumber).

Is there a way to achieve this?

So basically, I would like to have a button that takes a value from a Field (‘serialnumber’), and uses that value to run a script.

much obliged

[Brendan]

Hi Jose,

See the online manual for a description of those options:

https://www.tapforms.com/help-mac/5/en/topic/pick-lists

Thanks,

Brendan

[Chris Knight]

I bet Apple would say Swift. I have not used it myself yet. When it was first released I started to read up on it but decided it needed to have more time before I was going to learn it and see if the promise of cross-platform programming actually went anywhere.

I would personally vote for a subset of Python that includes only what would be applicable and useful in TapForms. There are slimmed down versions that are pretty small like MicroPython but it is aimed at embedded development on micro controllers. But, Python is probably the easiest language I ever learned to actually get doing useful things with quickly, even if the Python fan community is pretty vocally opinionated. It can be embedded in applications as a scripting language https://docs.python.org/3.6/extending/embedding.html and it can be slimmed way way down to a single 11MB file, https://www.egenix.com/products/python/PyRun/ . Actually, it can be even smaller by taking out a lot of the stuff that wouldn’t be needed. I’ve seen a python fit in 64k. Yep, 64k !!! Because micro controllers don’t usually have a lot of memory on chip it is important in that environment to make it small. MicroPython is current and needs a whopping 256k. That still isn’t a lot of memory for everything it can do.

The idea of having a “real” interpreted scripting language to manipulate field data with is pretty super dreamy cool. Especially conditional decision making statements. But there are plenty of other things I find more pressing for myself. Field properties for example.