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[xavipi]

Hello,

I’m new here and new with TapForm ;) (i come from bento)
I have a question about using fields calculation.

Is it possible to calculate values from linked fields? or put literal values from this linked fields?
For example:
I have a form called Projects. There i have fields like project name, Hours worked, Amount and a linked field called time billing.
Time billing is really an other form where i put hours when i begin a job, hours when i finish, a calculated field to know time worked, and a description.

I Want to know how can i catch amount values of total hours worked and put this value in Hours worked field of ‘Projects’ form.

Is this possible?

Thanks

Xavi

[ArsAstronautica]

Pierre,

I have both Lion and ML machines. iCloud on ML is decidedly more robust that it is on Lion, but it does usually work on Lion. (Though I have not run Tap Forms on Lion. I’ll try and remember to test this.) I found that on Lion, certain apps were better able to trigger a sync than other apps. So I would sometimes run them to get the other app’s files to sync. Expedient , if not elegant. The only reason I still have ANY machines still on Lion is because ML does not run on them. :-( I should add that I am a Mac admin for my family and work. That’s the reason for the multplicity of machines I have accounts on.

As to the other items, calendar, book marks, etc. Those always worked well on Lion. Macs had that ability long before Lion came out (Snow Leopard?, Leopoard?) The mechanism behind those is not the same as iCloud. If syncing works, then this is good news in the fact that at least Apple servers and your Mac can talk to one another. I presume that your iDevices are syncing this calendar/bookmark data too? That shows you have the right Apple ID for all of them.

I doubt it’s a past Mobile me account issue. I am an old .mac subscriber. I subscribed becuase of all the machines I managed. Manually syncing those machines with key data was such a chore I opted for the paid subscription to .mac. The cost was made up in savings of headache pills. :-) So I now have .mac, .me, and .icloud addresses. As long as the AppleID is consistent across Apple products, you should be good.

I recommend openning up the iCloud preference and turning off the Document syncing, turning it back on, and then checking the Mobile Documents folder again. Also, after that, try adding something to iCLoud via your iPad. I suspect that your Mac is just not properly linked to iCloud. These action might help.

Lastly, if you can, consdier an upgrade to ML. iCloud in Lion is rather half baked. iCloud supported apps in ML give you the option to store/ retrieve items in the cloud in the usual file dialogs. Quite nice. In Lion, you often have to do back flips to do this. Better than manual file transfers, but only barely in some cases.

Best of luck!

[Brendan]

Hi David,

Ya, I’m not planning on providing PDF form filling out options. There’s an app called PDFPen which I believe can do that. It’s a different kind of app really.

I think you might be able to make an AppleScript to take the CSV file exported from Tap Forms and open it in another app, but I’m not an AppleScript expert, so I don’t really know.

Sorry I couldn’t be of more help.

Thanks,

Brendan

[davidcsie]

Hi Brendan – have/tried a lot of databases but your’s has really impressed. Major selling point is it’s cooperation with textexpander. Are you planning to enable their fill-in snippets?
And the other thing – As a surgeon I need to gather data and fill in paper forms (consent op sheets etc) Tipirneni have a product called filing cabinet which allows pdf forms to be filled in and the data stored. They have simplified form design brilliantly to the point that I would like to use tap forms for data collection and their filing cabinet for printing out the collected data. Is there some way to create a script to export a file as csv and be opened in their app.
Thanks for your help. I did go through the forum but saw a similar issue about using pdf as form background came up a long time ago and assume you’re not planning implementing it anytime soon.
David

[Janeen]

Update: I think I solved the problem…

I’m referring to the iPad version. I created a garden plant database form. One of the fields is called plant description which I created as a regular text field. When I used the tools palette at the top of the screen and tapped customize forms to change the plant description field to a note field, the change would not update unless I exited the form and open it back up again.

I later realized that the small boxed arrow on the actual form in the lower right corner allowed me to customize that field in real time. New to the app so still figuring out how it works.

One other thing… I’m trying to create a ‘date created’ field for when I enter my plant information and another field called ‘date modified’ for when I make my daily or weekly changes to the plant information. I’d like the ‘date modified’ to reflect the date and time the changes where made. Can you tell me how I might set up these fields correctly?

Thanks for your help!

[rjkantor]

I have found that SQLiteManager has a scripting capability and I have been able to write a report that pulls from Sqlite using the Lua scripting language. There is potential with this approach.

For more info: http://www.sqlabs.com/sqlitemanager.php

[Brendan]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the feature suggestion. It’s something I’ve considered for a while now. I know that the 1Password guys do an amazing job of that sort of thing. It would certainly be doable to provide a quick popup list of field and values to pick from to insert into a login form. But auto-login is kind of out of scope for Tap Forms. There’s a lot of Javascript programming that needs to be done to get that right and I had never intended on Tap Forms to be JUST a password manager, so I didn’t spend a lot of time working on that area. But I do recognize how valuable that would be to a lot of users. So I’ll see what can be done for a future update.

Thanks,

Brendan

[murphy917]

I just purchased tapforms for mac, ipad and Iphone and have started to try to figure out a workflow for managing a newly created business that sells furniture and showroom samples.

Im looking for any suggestions from the tapformz community to help with creating a workflow to be able to create a process of creating a workflow from the point where we purchase new furniture and check it in the warehouse to input the info needed to then upload the form data to a webstore such as big commerce, 3dcart or any other sales cart (could be wordpress or hosted cart, I’m open to suggestions)

My question to the community is this…

Does tapforms seem like a good foundation for this purpose?
or is there a better solution that might work better?

I really like the tapforms software and will use it for a lot of personal forms so either way, thanks to the makers of this great product. Love it!

Thanks in advance for any suggestions to help with creating this workflow…. I cant quite figure out what would be a simple process to get my inventory with photos, descriptions, etc…. from warehouse to web in an efficient way without having to create each individual product and upload each photo. With about 300 pieces, this would take forever. However, it just may have to be that way….I hope you all have suggestions.

Thanks,
-Murph

[Lateral]

Hi Brendan

I thought that I would list these in a single post:

1. Provide ability to email total backup of Tapforms environment – Currently you can create a backup file of your total Tapforms environment including all forms and data but this requires you to be connected to itunes.

2. You currently have 4 seperate options under Database Maintenance..add a 5th option to do all 4 functions in a single operation.

3. Provide ability to auto switch screen orientation for forms into Landscape mode.

4. Add new field type called “Calendar Event” that adds a calender event directly to you Iphone Calender with a description/Note of your choosing.

5. Add new field type called “Note with Date” that adds the current date each time the Note field is opened or when the use enters a special character from within the text that they are entering.

Regards
Greg

[Doujon]

Hi. I have 2 very simple forms. The first is a list, it has 2 fields – stock code and description (although it could potentially hold a lot more information), the second form is used for counting stock. I scan a bar code and enter a qty.
Is it possible to scan a barcode into the second form (which is a stock code) and have the matching ‘description’ data from the first (list) form imported into the description field of the second form automatically?

Cheers

[Brendan]

Hi Paul,

I’m sorry, but I don’t have any experience with scripting with Number or any other program. Hopefully someone else on the forum can help you.

Thanks,

Brendan

[paulwebb]

anybody ant ideas. I keep thinking some sort of script. Happy to use windows excel if that helps any one.

[Case1001]

Hello

I am wondering why the bar code scanner search function works fine on Iphone version (global database search not Search in database) ? but not on ipad version I am able to search by description but not scan a bar code?

[paulwebb]

Hi love the app. I want to get my data out into spreadsheet, easy. I have table relationships, less easy.
I would like to do this monthly so that I can compare data. Same process every time. Is there a way on the mac with numbers to automate imports and layout like a scripting language. Anybody else tried this? If so happy to hear advice.
Thanks

[baizyeh]

Hi Brendan,

I was going to ask if you have a plan for PC version but since it’s not going to happen so, do you have plan for web version of Tap Forms? I mean something that you host on the web so that users can add entries. Not sure if Apple’s API supports this kind of collaboration (especially on iCloud) but, if it’s only adding entries this might be easier for you to build compared to building a PC version.

I have a Mac so I can grab the Mac version, but I boot to Windows (which is what I work on mostly) so it’d be really appreciated if there’s a cross platform solution. I think you can make it subscription or quota based sort of service, people won’t care, as long as they will be able to enter information on OSes other than Mac.

P.S.: I really love Tap Forms. When I bought my first iPad last week I immediately bought the HD version, took me time to setup iCloud but working like a charm now. (-; Please keep the good work!

Baiz