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[George Drohan]

Thanks for the response Leo. Dave’s handbase is great but the interface is a bit dated. Also I was using external popup lists(pick lists) that are huge 500+ entries for categories and style and it was a bit difficult to scroll thru all the entries (even though it does have a side “index”). It doesn’t seem that TF supports external pick list other than linking forms. But I read somewhere that TF has a better search.

So even if we can’t choose what fields we wish to view am I doing something wrong about not viewing the original image in the other form?

While I’m at it;
1) The inclusion of the image file name as a real field name is helpful for me but I wouldn’t want to see it in a linked form.
Using excel, I wrote a script that grabs the file name and opens and resizes the image in that spreadsheet based on the file name. It’s was a PIA but it was a way to get the image in spreadsheet as a macro.

2) as in my prior post I wish the manual was a bit more technical and up to date. I’m old school and like to have manuals.

[Brendan]

Hi Leo,

You could add a Section Heading field above another field to give a longer description. That’s what other customers have done that I’ve seen.

Thanks,

Brendan

[LeoC2]

Other than the field label is there a way to add a short field description to the display in the IOS versions? The field label is not usually enough for my purposes.

leo

[Patrice Hof]

Hi Brendan,
I tried again to sync from scratch. It takes several hours to sync a 200 Mo DB on 3 OSX devices and 2 iOS devices. I’m not finished yet, and the terminal shows this error message:

[ERROR] 4049.948 [2014-11-23 22:34:35.667] brc.fs.writer fs.writer BRCFSWriter.m:828
Failed to unstage r:6102 i:FXLPHZS84D.com.clickspace.tapforms:92107664-F3F0-4347-9666-4D8A7A479886 up:idle st{p:FA4B15CB-41C1-4743-90EB-793E5CA53E8B n:”BonDél Sculier 2012 08 15.pdf” fault reserved etag:1ct bt:315442800 m:rw- doc:18220 pino:13613685 s_ino:13624810 s_gen:61} ct{etag:1cs mt:1398437704 sz:829 Ko (849188) n:”BonDél Sculier 2012 08 15.pdf” sig:01d90aacd451316db8eb79b39e32b40ff4898ccb8d device:1 quarantined} downloading{etag:1cs mt:1398437704 sz:829 Ko (849188) n:”BonDél Sculier 2012 08 15.pdf” sig:01d90aacd451316db8eb79b39e32b40ff4898ccb8d device:1 quarantined downloading} [(null)] to BonDél Sculier 2012 08 15.pdf: Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=0 “L’opération n’a pas pu s’achever. Erreur inconnue : 0” UserInfo=0x7fa51ac26050 {NSDescription=Undefined error: 0}

Could it prevent the syncing to occur? This error message is produced for all pdf documents attached to records…

Thanks for your help
patrice

[Daan]

Brian,

While the Mac-related sync issues slowly seem to resolve themselves, I still get the message ‘Please turn on your iCloud account using the Settings app, including iCloud Drive’ even while iCloud and iCloud Drive *ARE* turned on and are working as expected in all other apps.

I am using the latest versions of TF (3.9.1 – 219) and iOS (8.1) on an iPhone 6 and an iPad Air form last year.

I did log off from iCloud on all devices — and had a lot of trouble signing in afterwards, as my 2-step verification push message does not come through anymore to my Vodafone-subscripted iPhone (a bug in iCloud for several providers at this moment).

Help again?

[Heiko None]

Okay, i updated to Version 3.0 on my Mac.(Yosemite)

Here my Bug description:

If i use the layout function and insert (draw some lines), the lines
will not show in the print preview and the will not print.

Attachments:

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[David Butenhof]

By the way … for what it’s worth, Bento is working fine for me on Yosemite and iOS 8, aside from having to accept a weird dialog when first launching it. I don’t know why you’re having problems — and as you say this isn’t the place to troubleshoot Bento.

But it is aging, and I definitely agree it’s time to move on. TapForms still looks like the only viable migration strategy to me, and in many ways a clear improvement.

The only reason I’m still using Bento is that I still have no migration strategy for my Bento Simple Lists. I’d spent some time a while ago trying to write a Python script to re-structure my Bento CSV exports into something TapForms could import; I just wasn’t able to get it to work, and haven’t had time to try again.

[Rob F]

Hi Brendan,

Thank you. I’ve had a go customising my first lay-out but I can’t seem to get the field names to populate through with the fields, i.e. “Name” field just has the box within which to write the name, but no “Name” descriptor to the side of it?

Thanks for your patience :)

Rob

[tropical_sheep_farmer]

I have been rethinking how I constructed some of my TapForms Forms in light of some changes to how I have to collect/report/output some of my data.

There are some .xls spreadsheets I am required to fill in for an annual report that come from a gov’t agency. Then I have my records. What is the best way to get help with this kind of problem? Should I upload the spreadsheet forms and screenshot one of my TF records? Or try to describe the situation?

I feel like there may be places where I’m not using TF to its fullest extent, instead relying on pick lists and manual entry for item description/pricing/units/inventory/notes etc. where maybe I should be creating a whole set of records for each item in the pick lists that includes the pricing, thus tying those data points together and then relating the records/drawing them into a table for the monthly and annual report forms I have to fill in.

I am wondering if I can get the calculations to work to the point where I can recreate the gov’t forms in TapForms and do the output all in one go. They are ultimately submitted as PDF forms, so no need to wind up with an .xls file.

I could use a bit of help figuring out the best approach. At the moment my records are mostly redundant. What would be helpful to include in this thread to get some advice?

[ArsAstronautica]

Hmm. Not a bad idea. I can write a small shell script to swap the two.

Only question is, is the “Use iCloud setting” stored there in that folder? I’d rather not confuse TF trying to sync two different DBs!

BTW, I may just store the records in iCloud any way. I’ll see how large the files actually get.

[ArsAstronautica]

Currently I have all my TF data in iCloud, which is working very well!

I am thinking about cataloging a manuscript collection and using TF to do it, since it would be the most useful tool to do so in. Now this collection will result in a database potentially larger than I want for it to be in iCloud. I am wondering if there is a way to select a set of records/forms not to be kept in iCloud. I know I can turn off iCloud, but that’s not what I mean. Some data in iCloud, some not. There currently does not seem to be a good way to do that.

And no, this is not really a feature request.

[Ducky Q]

Hi,

I have created multiple pick list:
Picklist 1:
10. Option 1
14. Option 2
30. Option 3.

Picklist 2:
1. Easy
3. Medium
5. Difficult

So the pick list has a number (weight) follow by the descriptions for easy reference. So the entry is not just “numbers” but include “text”.

I want to create a calculator that add/multiply the numbers. e.g
[Picklist 1] + [Picklist2]

Is there a way to make picklist return “numbers” even thought it contains “text”?
So, while the display looks like “10. Option1”, but when the user select this, it will be “10” in numbers.

While I can change the display of the PickList as decimal, my calculated fields still shows zeros.

Sorry, if it is not clear, I will try to explain it again.

Cheers,
Ducky

[David Butenhof]

This is the most recent topic I can find on importing linked forms, so I’m going to reply here. (Simple logic.)

I’ve been looking for quite a while for a Bento replacement. Actually, I was looking long before FileMaker dropped Bento. What I wanted was an iCloud sync-ed database that would work on my Mac, my iPhone, and my iPad to keep everything up to date. I never really found anything that met the basic requirements. The closest was probably the venerable old HanDBase; but it doesn’t do cloud sync (which I’d find much more convenient than local WiFi sync), and the Mac client is primitive, ugly, and despite recurring promises virtually unmaintained for years.

And then today I almost accidentally found a recommendation for TapForms.

After spending some time today playing with the Mac demo (thanks for that, by the way!) and reading the forum and documentation, I’ve come to the conclusion that you’re almost there. I think I could use TapForms as I’ve used Bento, with only a few minor inconveniences… and with many advantages (including, not least, supported software, which is always nice).

Except that moving my data from Bento to TapForms would be unacceptably complex without the sort of import infrastructure being discussed in topics like this.

I never tried to use related Bento databases, because I didn’t like the UI. I think your UI for linked forms is a little better, though perhaps still not quite perfect. But my solution in Bento, which did just what I wanted, was the “simple list”. So now, to migrate, I need a solution for simple lists.

You don’t have such a concept, and that’s fine — I’d be satisfied with your linked forms. The challenge comes in converting thousands of Bento records with simple lists into a set of TapForm linked forms — and until that can happen, I’m stuck with Bento.

I can import the Bento data in CSV form. Obviously it’d be convenient if TapForms could just read that format and create the appropriate linked tables; but I’d be happy to write some Perl or Python to massage the data into an appropriate set of separate CSV files — which of course requires that I be able to define the SQL foreign keys that link the tables.

Although that leads me to a possibly more immediate question, since a topic from several years ago seemed to suggest that you’re using sqlite underneath. How sensitive is TapForms to which aspects of database & table structure? Would it be feasible for my hypothetical Python script to tear apart Bento’s CSV export and build a set of tables directly that TapForms would transparently “adopt” as if you’d created them?

(Whether or not I get an answer, when I have some time I’ll probably poke around to find your sqlite files and look inside them to see what I can figure out; but some hints would be appreciated and could be the key to selling a Mac, iPhone, and iPad version of TapForms… because if I can get the Mac demo looking the way I’d like, I’d be ready to go “all in”.)

[Tom Winter]

Hi Brendan,

Thanks for the detailed reply, it was indeed very helpful and pointed towards the solution to my problem.

I was too brief in my description of the problem in my first email, I didn’t want to send a two page essay on the subject. To clarify…

After deleting the app from my iPhone and reinstalling, I could finally see all of the registered devises, but only 7 of the 24 records in 1 form were down loaded. None of the 400+ records in 7 other forms ever appeared on my iPhone, even after 24 hours. Oddly, changes made on my iPad & Mac did appear on my iPhone, but none of the missing records. The fact that my iPad & Mac continued to function flawlessly made me think something was corrupted on my iPhone, but probably not in Tap Forms. So…

I deleted Tap Forms from my iPhone, turned of “Documents & Data”, and shut down (press the off button and swiped to “Power Off”). Then rebooted, turned on D&D, downloaded TF Lite, installed the upgrade, and enabled iCloud Sync. All is functioning properly now.

Thanks for your help. It’s a nice piece of software. Keep up the good work.

Tom

[Brendan]

Hi Josh,

1. You can adjust all the fonts for the labels and values, but not individually. You can adjust the font colour of individual fields, so you could use that to distinguish your more important fields. For example, red fields are the most important, etc.

2. I believe what you are wanting here is what Bento called Related Data fields. In Tap Forms they’re called Link to Form fields. It’s where you can link one form to another via a special field type. Tapping on a Link to Form field type will let you connect your records together in two different ways. One to Many and Many to Many. Rather than going into the details about that here, I’d like to refer to you the manual for the Mac version which gives a good description of the difference and pretty much works the same way as the iPad version (other than the obvious different looks between a Mac and iPad app):

http://www.manula.com/manuals/tap-zapp/tap-forms-mac/2.0/en/topic/relationships

Thanks!

Brendan