Does this new TapForms Pro have integration with Apple Contacts? That’s the one feature from Bento that would make me want to pay for this upgrade.
Integration with Contacts is the same as it was in Tap Forms 5. You can either add a Contact field type to your form to reference a contact from the Contacts database, or you can use the Import Contacts function in Tap Forms Pro for Mac to import all the Apple contacts.
So no two-way syncing per se with the Contact field type?
The Contact field type displays a popover to let you select a contact if none is set. Or when you click the contact button again, it shows you the contact details. Apple used to allow editing in that popover, but they took that feature out a while back.
If you import the contacts a second time using the Import Contacts function, Tap Forms will update existing records with whatever new data was entered into the Contacts app.
Thanks Brendan. I assume that other fields will be kept intact, so that we can safely re-import as often as desired for a kind of one-way sync. Is that the case?
You could certainly make a new, empty document and test that theory out. I just tested it by making a new document, importing contacts, adding a new field, putting something in the new field, then I edited a contact to change a company name and re-imported the contacts. The only change was the contact that I updated the name in the Apple Contact’s app changed in Tap Forms Pro to the same value. Which is what I expected to happen. So that’s good.
Great. So it seems like TFP could serve as an Apple Contacts linked database, with the limitation that any data that exists in Apple Contacts can only be edited there, and that “syncing” has to be done manually.
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