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[Mike Schwartz]

Brendan,

Please consider adding a FIND function like the one in Excel:

FIND(find_text,within_text,start_num), which returns the numeric position of the found text.

I was thinking about a solution/workaround to Jose’s use case in another thread (Pick Lists Request). I had suggested that he create a set of pick list values that start with a short code followed by a verbose description, and then to shorten his column width in multi-column view to display only the initial short codes. He responded that his short codes would be varying lengths, meaning that the display wouldn’t look clean. I suppose he could pad out the shorter short codes with spaces, but I was thinking of a different approach.

That approach would be to use a calculation field to return just the initial CODE portion of the lengthy CODE_space_dash_space_VerboseDescription field. Easy to do with the SUBSTR function, assuming that you know the position of the “dash”. Hence the notion of adding a FIND function.

I think it would have a lot of general utility for string manipulations. I’m not at all advocating this as an alternative to Jose’s request; just something else to think about adding.

Thanks,
Mike

[Brendan]

Ya, it would be useful to have the code and a description. It would be most useful if you had it for Number fields because you could have some textual description of what the number value means. Selecting it would only put the number value into the field, but you would get to see what that number value represented.

[Mike Schwartz]

Jose,

Would it work to construct your pick list to contain both an initial code and a verbose description? For example:

IOU — flag that I owe someone money, who should be paid soon
DUE — flag that someone owes me money

If your codes are all three characters, then you can set the column width to show only the codes, but when you click on the pick list arrow you’ll see the full description.

As an alternative quick-and-dirty work-around, you can add a custom layout and call it “Pick List Values”. On that layout, you can add a table of pick list codes and descriptions as a static text item (NOT a field). Then you can flip to that layout and use it to jog your memory when needed.

— Mike

[Jose Monteiro]

Hi Brendan,

With pick lists, sometimes, or many times, it’s difficult to find a short description for the pick list value, allowing us to understand their meaning promptly.

Then we have longer descriptions, meaning wider columns on Multi-Column Views (thats my favorite view) and the need for moving view content left-right to view all data.

To overcome that I use codes on pick lists to reduce columns width.
With the growing number of Documents, Forms and Pick Lists it’s hard to remember all those codes and their meaning.

My suggestion is:
– Allow two fields on a pick list; one for a code and the other for a description.
– Then, when on a form choosing a code value for a field from a pick list, the popover window would show us the available codes and descriptions allowing us to choose the one we want.

Jose

[Leo]

You can use linked forms many 2 many. This way you can search on item # or description.
Then use calculation field to populate it with the chosen child/father

[Efren Santos]

Hi,

I am creating a sales order receipt, and wanted to show automatically the description by just typing or pluggin in the item # in Item field, If I type “FT01” it will automatically display “Dasilog” in the Description Field, the how can I do that?.

Qty Item # Description
1 FT01 Dasilog
3 FT05 Tasilog

Thanks.

BTW, I am still using the OLD Version of TF.

[Brendan]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your detailed description of what you’re trying to accomplish with Tap Forms.

Tap Forms is sharing the .tfarc file just for that specific record when you use it at the record details level. It was a convenient way of sharing everything there was to share about that record, including file attachments, photos, etc.

By the way, a .tfarc file is just a zipped file which contains a data.json file. The .zip extension is renamed to .tfarc so that Tap Forms recognizes it as a Tap Forms Archive file. The data.json file has all of your data in it for all the records in the form.

So if Pythonista can unzip the file and then process a .json document, then you could theoretically get the data that you want from that Share panel.

It is a bit tricky deciding what type of data to share. In the case of sharing a CSV file with just one record, what about any file attachments and photos you might have in that record? Do they get ignored or do I create a separate zip file that contains all of those things? What if there are Link to Form fields in that record? Do I then export those too? The .tfarc file answere all those questions for me.

I’m definitely interested in helping to make this process easier for you though. One possibility would be when you tap the Share button, I then ask the user what format to share the record in (CSV or Archive).

[Steve Morris]

I use tap forms regularly. I have several applications but the main one is collecting data to help me manage my diabetes. As a basic data base it is working well, especially with the enhanced search. The one thing I wish I could do easier is share data outside of tap forms. For example sometimes I want to send some data to my doctor. Also I use the Pythonista app a lot. Pythonista is Python integrated with ios so i write a lot of scripts. I would like to write Python scripts to analyze my diabetes data. To do that I would like to send the data I just entered to a script which then looks through recent history and gives me advice. Python is heavily used in the science world for numerical analysis. Pythonista includes the core data processing and plotting libraries used for this (Numpy etc.) I would like to use this capability to analyze the data I collect in Tap Forms. The two apps seems like a perfect fit to me.The best iOS database app connected to the only usefull and fully functional scripting language that runs on iOS.

Tap Forms is close. I have saved a cvs file down in the files menu then shared it. (I can put my Pythinista scripts in the Apple Share menu.) However in Tap Forms this process is so tedious. I counted and the process of sharing csv data has seven steps and that doesn’t include managing the now useless files. So I did it once, plotted my blood sugar data and never did it again. It is worth doing once in a while but I want something I could do almost every time I enter data.

However I recently noticed that that when I select a record there is a share button. I was very excited. That is only two clicks away from the record. Today I decided it was time to get back to writing some scripts. I started with my demo share script at that just captures the data. The shared data was a large tfarc file presumably containing the entire dataset. It is big enough. What the heck am I supposed to do with a tfarc file when I asked to share a specific record? This makes no sense to me. If I understand what a tfarc does it should only be shared when you are in a global context, not when you are looking at a single record.

Major disappointment. Not what I was hoping. I still don’t have a convenient way to share data with my doctor and write scripts to help manage my diabetes. tfarc is only interesting to Tap Forms. My doctor doesn’t use Tap Forms (she can open .csv files) and I don’t know how to unpack a tfarc in in Python.

A request. The share functionality can share more than one file at a time. It is common to share data in multiple formats for use by different apps letting the app choose between the different kind of files. For example text files could be shared as raw text, markup and html. Could Tap Forms share both a tfarc and a csv file at these share menus? That should be backwards compatible.

Ideally there should be 3 ways to share a data set depending on were the user selects share.

1) At the record level the shared csv should contain that record.
2) In the search function the shared csv file should contain the selected records of the search.
3) At the top level the shared csv file should contain the entire data set.

Tap Forms is so close to what I need. I’m convinced that a close binding between Tap Forms and Pythonista scripting would get you a completely new source of customers. There is a whole world of scientists out there (and anyone else with large datasets to process) using Python to interact with databases.

[Steve Morris]

BTY: Thanks for the search update in version 5. It is spectacular. It is very powerful. I use it extensively. If only I could figure out how to delete a search I no longer need.

For the last two weeks I have been trying to figure out how to add a field to an existing form. I went through every screen and touched every button and couldn’t find anything. I use Tap Forms every day but mostly the same form. (I’m diabetic and log a bunch of stuff every day.) The result is I knw a lot about entering data to that form but noot much else. It has been a long time since I edited a form so I blamed my memory. I googled the question and eventually found that it was supposed to be under tools. It isn’t there.

Why isn’t it there? I searched some more and found a note about “hidden” forms (which I have never used because I can’t figure out why I would want to hide my stuff from myself) and a description about how to get to customize from a record detail->share. I didn’t think my form was hidden but who knows what I might have done by accident so I gave it a try. Sure enough I was finally able to add my field. While i was there I checked the hidden attribute. It is Off! Come to think of it it shows up in the regular forms menu so how could it be hidden?

So why no Customize in the tools menu?

Confused.

-steve

[mrbill]

Howdy- I now this doesn’t exist today and is probably hard to do, but I’m looking for a behavior that is similar to the availability of a Spreadsheet style field. Ok, let me explain:

I’ve created a project management database and on one of the layouts, it would be awesome to be able to create a sortable spreadsheet style list. I’m trying to create a bug tracker, but would like it within it’s own form (hard to explain). So, if I have a form that has some other fields in it, it would be great to have a field that lets me enter data spreadsheet style and then sort that data within the field.

So, I had the idea to create a separate bug tracker form (which I did) that just has priority, title, description, class, and notes (nothing fancy). I then created a link from/to form field and put that into my project management form. BUT, the problem is it shows ALL bugs from ALL the projects. Not really ideal.

Does anyone have a hack that will let me basically embed a sortable list as a field inside a form. I know, that’s complicated and a mouthful.

Thanks!!!

[Kimberley Hoffman]

You could try mine, I don’t know how well it will translate. It was the first time I tried putting in a background photo. The font I used on the layout “The Pattern” is Amberly, which I bought from MyFonts.com. You might have to replace it with a similar script.

Try it out. I’d like to know how well it works for you.

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[Ian Longley]

I’m an accountant. For a small business my current preference is QuickBooks Online. Here in Australia there are 4 different subscriptions available – Self-Employed, Simple Start, Essentials and Plus. However if your bookkeeping needs are very simple an app may be all you need. For a small sports club I use the iXpenseIt app from FYI Mobileware inc. on my iPhone. For the same club I use TapForms to maintain a membership database.

[scneophyte]

I searched for the old thread but couldn’t find it.

Currently, I import expenses and sales (separate forms) records which are related to the Projects form (parent form).

The Projects form has a link to the expenses / sales forms and the “Show Inverse Relationship” is checked. There is a similar link to the child records for Company and PO/Invoice forms.

Once the records are imported, I still must go through and link each record to its parent, three times on some records.

While importing does save time and reduces the incidence of transcription errors, it would be nice to not have to make this selection at all.

I just tested it in 5.4.1 and, while the import wizard screen successfully shows the field type as “Link From Form” and the CSV contains a valid entry, nothing is populated after import.

Any update on if / when support will be added for “Link from Form”?

[ArsAstronautica]

Quick question, I am about to set up some forms for a manuscript project and I am wondering what the limitations are on Note and Text Fields. The later are fixed to the box size, but the former are scrollable and seem to be able to take quite a bit of text. Is there a limit on the Note field?

I do not expect to have megabytes of text in a Note field, but I could have as much as 10-20k for some entries. Most entries would only be a few k.

[Paolo]

I’m not a great developer, I write only piece of codes and silly apps but I really comprehend how could be difficult to implement this request.
For now I use a self-made script that trasform the csv file exported from tap forms in iCal format and then automatically asks me to choose a calendar from the list where import the iCal file. My event form has two “date and time” fields, one for starting date and one for ending date. The script reads and takes data for each field and import the event in Calendar app. Obviously I use this script to export from Tap a large number of events.
Starting and ending date are fully supported by default Calendar and I really really hope that you can find the way to implement that.

Thanks for your time!