I’ve been through a 468 page search to no answer
In the File Attachment field, clicking on the attachment, then clicking on the right arrow it shows: Show or export selected files. I am expecting for that to return the location of the file I attached into the form (IOW not using the alias method)
However the return shows a drop down menu window: Select a folder to save the selected files to. I was expecting to see the file attachment where it is located inside the .tapforms file>show package contents> db….name>attachments folder (I am within the lower case attachments folder.)
So, If I need to delete an outdated attachment in a record completely from my document folder, just highlighting the file attachment to delete, then hitting the – key, doesn’t actually remove it from the attachments folder. I’ve seen this not work as I have found an attachment in the attachments folder, and watched while using the – key to delete it from the record— which it does— but the actual file attachment in the attachements folder does not delete.
Is there something I’m missing for complete deletion of an attachment?
tia
Hi,
Hmm… It should have deleted the file on disk too.
The reason it asks you to download the file instead of showing you the file on disk is because the database engine (CouchbaseLite) handles all the attachments internally and the files are given random filenames and stored as .blob files. So it wasn’t really a user facing thing to show in the Finder.
In Tap Forms Pro files are stored in a similar fashion, but it’s handled by CoreData and it works much better in that respect.
But I’ll have to look at my code in Tap Forms 5 and see what’s going on there.
Thanks,
Brendan
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