HOW TO MULTI SELECT CONTACTS USING THE CONTACTS FIELD ?

Tap Forms – Organizer Database App for Mac, iPhone, and iPad Forums Using Tap Forms HOW TO MULTI SELECT CONTACTS USING THE CONTACTS FIELD ?

Viewing 1 reply thread
  • Author
    Posts
  • August 11, 2014 at 12:53 AM #10622

    Karan Kothari
    Participant

    HI

    I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO MULTI SELECT CONTACTS WHEN USING THE CONTACTS FIELD ON MAC.

    APPLICATION EXAMPLE: I AM MAKING A MEETING LIST. I HAVE TO ADD THE PARTICIPANTS. HOW TO SELECT MORE THAN ONE PARTICIPANT FOR A MEETING.
    1) I CANNOT MAKE PICK LIST FOR EVERY EMPLOYEE
    2) I CANNOT KEEP CREATING NEW FIELDS FOR EACH CONTACT.

    IN A PICK LIST IT IS POSSIBLE TO MULTI SELECT. HOPE TO GET THIS OPTION IN CONTACTS AS WELL.

    August 12, 2014 at 9:41 PM #10625

    Brendan
    Keymaster

    Hi Karan,

    This is the job for a Link to Form field. With that you would have a Contacts form which has a separate record for each contact.

    Then, in your Meeting form, you would simply select which contacts you want to attend the meeting.

    The Link to Form would be a Many to Many Link Type.

    You can set that up on the Field Properties on Mac or directly off the field on iOS. You would then add a new record for each contact to your Contacts form, then link to the contact using a Contact field. You could add additional information to the Contacts form if you like too.

    Then when editing your meeting record, just multi-select whichever contacts you’d like to link to.

    Hope that makes sense.

    Thanks!

    Brendan

Viewing 1 reply thread

You must be logged in to reply to this topic.