I miss the old days of 3.0 with dropbox. I want to share the database with multiple iCloud users in our family. We may not be in one location within the same network so the “nearby” will not work. Yes I know the proper, but expensive way, is to use the IBM Cloudant. Some files with photos are 3Gb so its above the free zone.
Is there a way that we can change the default location that is used in iCloud so I can direct the files to a shared directory available to all users? The way I see it now it is saved at the root location and not in a choice of directing it to a shared folder.
Suggestions?
Hi Jimmy,
I’m very sorry but this is not possible. Tap Forms doesn’t technically use iCloud Drive to store it’s files. In fact, no files get stored. Tap Forms uses Apple’s CloudKit service which is basically a big database in the cloud. So the changes you make to a document are stored as database records on Apple’s CloudKit servers.
Another suggestion is to install Apache CouchDB on your Mac and then open up a hole in your firewall to let traffic get there from the outside world. There are other cloud services you can also install Apache CouchDB onto, such as Amazon Web Services. But it can get pretty technical to set it all up.
I really wish that Apple would allow a whole database to be shared in CloudKit. They allow individual record objects to be shared. But that’s not enough ability to be able to share an entire form, the fields, the records, the attachments, etc. in Tap Forms. I remember one year going to WWDC and asking an Apple engineer about that and they just said, “no, we have no plans to allow that”. It’s really too bad because it would be a great feature to have to be able to share individual database documents with other Apple IDs.
Thanks,
Brendan
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