Major feature request for top $ : form to letter

[DreamingMD]

Hello,

As you may know, we Md’s produce usually a report for each patient visit, sometimes several per patient visit.

Tha’ts what transcriptionists and secretaries are paid for.

Many of us can’t afford a secretary or need to produce real-time reports.

So we devote a lot of time to typing.

As a specialist , my reports follow a consistent pattern

There are changes in values or refferal names or findings, with a custom conclusion. Full Dictation is not yet mature on IOs

What I really need is a way to tap a form…. And get a letter ready to print and archive.

The geeky way would be to tap, export to csv, FTP to desktop, trigger automatic mail merge to a template in ms word or OO Writer.

I am sure you can do better : tap, generate letter, edit letter, AirPrint .

Please team up with a word processor maker on iOS or devise one.

You may change the lives of millions of professionals, who would pay for this.

It only needs to be a basic letter formatting, with fields from Tap.

Sorry for the long post.

[Brendan]

Hi,

Thanks for the feature request, but adding a word processor with Mail Merge functionality is a little out of scope for an app like Tap Forms. Although I know that this kind of function can often be done on a desktop app. I’ll take your feature request under advisement though.

Thanks,

Brendan

[DrJJWMac]

Perhaps this would happen when Tap Forms includes a way for users to design their own forms for any database. Alternatively, perhaps Tap Forms could integrate with on-line form services (Google Forms, ProntoForms …) in a way that allows a user to create an on-line form, export data from Tap Forms (to the on-line form service), pull up the on-line form on their iPhone/iPad, import the data, and then print.

Either way, I strongly agree that having a reliable way for a user to print database information directly from an iX platform in a format that he/she pre-defines would open Tap Forms to a huge professional and personal market, where such needs are only going to get larger very soon.

[DreamingMD]

Online forms are not legally appropriate for patients privacy concerns .

We don’t need a fancy word processor : a sub-TextEdit or even HTML markup would be fine.

I am reluctantly considering now FileMaker, preparing for some headaches.

A limited solution is better than no solution, and someone has to do it (nobody does today). There are 20$ sharewares for Windows that do just that.

I don’t want to use a desktop anymore, except as a data repository.

Is 2012 too soon ?

[DrJJWMac]

How about using an app on the iX platform that a) imports csv, b) allows you to format it in some useable way, and c) then can airprint it?

Try typing in some variation of “csv” in to the iTunes app store to see. Maybe even the iX versions of Excel or its variants would work.

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