A File Attachment Field is used to link the Subject of a Record to appropriate documentation.
In the instance concerned the documentation is a PDF, the attached PNG shows how this is presented.
From the early years of Adobe Acrobat I progressed to AA Pro until Adobe pulled the support for v XI. The cost of using the subscription alternative was not justifiable so diffferent software has been aquired.
It seems that Tap Forms have ‘Preset Icons’ that are dependent on the File Type placed in the File Attachment Field?
Is there any means to enable the ‘Preferred Icon’ to display as shown in the second attachment below?
Thanks for your time, best wishes,
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Please modify the Tap Forms program by referring to the link below
https://github.com/bangjunyoung/KoreanTextMatcher
If you search Google for a neutral Korean moon, you can see why this happens.
As it stands, Tap Forms is very inconvenient to type in Korean, but no one will be using it.
Ninox & File Maker does not experience this problem with default input systems.
However, File Maker Pro says that if you need to write a Script and input in Korean, you can create and solve a user function.
I hope you can enter Korean correctly.
You’re welcome Joel! Over the years I’ve used a few Db apps and in my humble opinion, have found this one to be the best one. Now, with that said … iCloud sync can be tricky and sometimes you have to go thru steps to fix sync issues. But, iCloud has also done some funky things on my Mac OS, e.g. removed Thumbnail images (of some image files), completely removed the folder ‘branding’ (of many of my graphics collections folders — which I am now putting them up into a TF Db that I just put together…), but true, iCloud is generally very reliable.
I do understand where you’re coming from, especially when you’re trying to get something done when you don’t really have a lot of time to do it and it can be very frustrating.
…. What I’ve found with Tap Forms is a very engaged developer (Brendan) who really takes great pride in his work, is very proactive, and has been extremely helpful whenever I’ve needed help, have questions, etc. Now, if only I could figure out scripting/JavaScript (but that’s on me :-)
Good luck and I encourage you to try working with the app again in the future and remember to ask for help if you need it! Karen
Hi Peter,
This might be complicated with a Calculation field, but in Tap Forms 5.3 I’ve added a new Script field where you can write JavaScript functions to generate results. I would suggest it’s easier to do what you want if you know a bit of JavaScript to do your if/then logic to get the results that you want.
Tap Forms 5.3 will be out next month when Mojave and iOS 12 are released.
Hi Martin,
There is an IFEQUAL(A; B; C; D) function which works like that and can be used for comparing text. It basically says “if A = B, then return C; else return D”.
In Tap Forms 5.3 I’ve added a JavaScript engine and you can write real scripts that use proper if/then/else statements.
Hi Dean,
You would need to create a Link to Form field or a Table field that contains each track and their running times separately. Then you can have Tap Forms display the total at the bottom of the list of child records. You can also then use a Calculation field to get the total of the running times from the Running Time field in the Link to Form or Table field.
But you can’t have Tap Forms total up values from within a Note field. Not unless you want to use the new Tap Forms 5.3 beta and write some JavaScript code to parse your Note field and extract out the data. But that seems like a lot of work.
Thanks,
Brendan
Thank you for the response, looking for an alternative way to make my labels now then and would love to see a tutorial or reference file for dummies in the help section of the website on how to script such a thing.
Hi Joke,
Ya, this is a bit of an issue at the moment because the way the contacts get imported. The Table field prints just like a table with all records, even if you want just one.
But in Tap Forms 5.3 with a little bit of scripting, you’ll be able to pull out the values from a specific entry in the Table field and format them like a label. Tap Forms 5.3 will be available when macOS Mojave and iOS 12 ship.
Thanks,
Brendan
Hi Brendan,
I’m brand-new to Tap Forms, and so far, I’m very impressed — thank you for the thousands of hours you’ve put into it!
I’m trying to create a catalog of paintings by an 1880s artist and will eventually have about 300 records. I’ve created a form using the default layout with 12 fields of various types, including Text, Date, Checkbox, Notes, and Photo.
For the Text fields, I’m limiting the text to just a line or two.
In some cases, I need to add a description of as many as 200 words, so I’ve chosen to use the Notes field for those. In the single-column list view, they look just fine. But if I try to print the form or save it as a PDF (I’m working a new-ish Mac laptop, running OS 10.13.5), only the first six lines show up.
Am I doing something wrong? Should I be using a custom layout?
My apologies if I haven’t explained this very clearly … and thank you again for creating a program that’s SO close to perfect for what I need!
Cheers,
Wynne
Hey Brendan
Firstly thanks for your quick answers. I was about to give up on TapForms, as the two different fonts in one table was vital to me (mixing English script and Ancient Egyptian in one table without the two different fonts is not a good look).
However I found a work around. I basically created two tables, one for the column I need in English script and one for the table I need in Ancient Egyptian, and put them beside each other in the custom layout. Didn’t align perfectly initially, but by playing around with the font I selected for English script, I was able to find one that created rows of the same height, and now they align perfectly. So far so good (I still have to do a couple of other smaller tables for the page, but they should be much easier, as all in English script, and only a few rows long.
A couple of formatting questions:
. Is it possible to hide the header in the table so it doesn’t print the field names?
. When I create the table, it by default puts a line between the header and the values. I don’t want that (as it is inconsistent with my format for the other fields I have on the page). Is it possible to hide that line. I have tried to do so by creating a text box and putting it over it, which sort of works, put not great (can’t seem to go as far out to the right as the table).
And a bonus question (I am expecting the answer to be no!). I am using this to create an appendix for a PhD to put in all the data (large number of pages), with one page of data per person. All my other tables in the PhD (which are created in Tableau if you know it) are formatted so that every second row of the table is shaded light grey ie you have one row of text with no background, and one row text with a light grey background. It would be nice for my data pages to have the same format (but it is not essential). Is there a feature I am missing in TapForms that does this?
Regards
Victor
(ps I am expecting to be able to get this to work, in which case I will subscribe to the paid version – I am currently on a trial version.
pps – when I signed up I thought it said the trial was for 30 days, but it seems to have only given me 10 days?)
Hi Mike,
Unfortunately at the moment that won’t work to display an empty value instead of 00:00. The reason being is that in order to return an empty value rather than a 0 value, you would need to set the Result Type to Text and return the empty string if a field value were empty. And by doing so you lose the ability to format your duration in terms of HH:MM. In Tap Forms 5.3, which I’ll have ready by the time Mojave and iOS 12 are release, will have a new Script engine in it whereby you can use JavaScript to write Calculation fields which gives you far more control over the output than the current Calculation field.
Hi Mike,
Welcome back to Tap Forms! Although they’ve done some great things in Ninox, I do feel their UI is quite odd and not very “Mac like”. I’m not sure what they use to program it, but it feels like they might be using some cross platform system. Not sure. Tap Forms is all Mac, all iOS.
I’m also working on some AppleScript support too. Just the basics for now. Mostly for being able to execute a custom JavaScript built inside Tap Forms to be executed from an external AppleScript. It’s going to be really great.
Thanks!
Brendan
No, it’s not possible yet to extract non-aggregated data from a Table field.
But in Tap Forms 5.3 I’m adding a new JavaScript engine which would let you pick out any row of a Table field and get any of the values you like.
Thanks!
Brendan
I haven’t written AppleScript support into Tap Forms, but it shouldn’t matter for this specific function.
tell application "Tap Forms 5"
quit
end tell
I just tested the above and it works fine.
Hi,
I would like to write an AppleScript to automatically quit TapForms each evening – so that the backup process is automated.
Is it possible and can anyone give me pointers to what the script should look like?
Thanks in advance!
