External Apps

[Denny Tuckerman]

I’m in the middle of designing a Tapforms iPad database to record Astronomy Observations. Initially I’m concentrating on observing Lunar Objects – I’ve almost completed it but would like assistance with:-
1. To call another iPad app from my current TapForms record. I use SkySafari 6 Plus. I know I can use calling a website to get the current UK Weather and Moon Atlas BUT I’d like it to be something like a labelled button [Click for tonight’s weather conditions] on my form that has a static value that can appear on my Observing Form rather than a www field that I have to fill each time on each record – although that would work if I set the default value the website I always use.
2. I could do the same to go to the same Moon Atlas website I always use BUT is there a way to actually launch a dedicated (paid for) Moon App that already resides on my iPad?
3. In an ideal world I would like to import data and images from my Moon Atlas app – I know I could point a www field to http://fullmoonatlas.com/ again I would prefer it to be a static button embedded on each record.

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[Brendan]

Hi Denny,

The Default Value option is your only way of launching another app from within Tap Forms. You can put parameters in the URL that get their values from other fields if you might need that kind of functionality. Just put the field name within the URL like this: https://www.tapforms.com/%5Bsome other field] and Tap Forms will substitute in the value for you.

You can use a script to fetch an image from a URL and populate a Photo field with it in Tap Forms.

See the Scripts section of the user manual for details:

https://www.tapforms.com/help-mac/5.3/en/topic/scripts

There’s even a Fetch Movie Data from Web Service example that shows how to fetch data from a web service, including getting a photo from a URL:

record.addPhotoFromUrlToField(imageUrl, case_cover);

Hope that helps!

Brendan

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