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.
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
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
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 ????
And the field title (Mac version only) will display the contents of that field description when you hover over it as a tooltip.
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!
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
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?
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
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
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
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.
Hi All, As always, Mike has clear, implementable solutions. Brendan, I second the request for a description field on the Pick Lists, and one for the Forms, too.
My work around for tracking which values got to which picklists and which permutations in a slightly different pick list go with which Forms, is so time consuming and cumbersome, because slight changes (as the iterative process refines the form) are complicated to maintain and document. The description field in picklists (and forms) would help a lot!!!! Daylite has something like what we are requesting if you are looking for an example.
Thanks
Sydney
Hi
In full screen mode the search icon for saved searches is all jumbled up with the descriptive text for that search?
Cheers
Hello! We were former Bento users who finally bit the bullet to upgrade and we are thrilled with Tap Forms so far. We use it to enter in simple records of objects with date/time/description. While we have a small number of records (about 2600) they all have 1 high-resolution photo attached making the database just north of 2GB.
I created a CouchDB server and can sync between two MacBook Airs without issue, the trouble is with the 1 iPhone we’re trying to sync- for the life of me, I can’t figure out how to get the initial database on there!?
I’ve tried putting it in iCloud, Dropbox, etc., but when I go to try and “import a backup” from the iOS app, it sort of does nothing and no file name is listed in the field, even though I can see the 2GB file in both Dropbox and iCloud. (And marked the file for “offline” so it was already downloaded.)
I’ve tried using the “-> send to” device button and it starts to work, but typically times out after about 5-10 minutes.
Any thoughts on what I can do so that I can have the same database ID on my iPhone to connect it to the CouchDB for syncing? Maybe I could make a version of the database and strip out all the photos or something to shrink it down?
Many thanks for any advice and a great overall product.
