Record Delete much too easy

[Norman Lorton]

Hi
New to Tap Forms 5 today. Just imported a couple of hundred records into a dozen Forms or so using separate .csv files from ‘Acrylic Software Wallet’. The process went very well and I like what I have found so far.

Tap Forms is much more powerful than Wallet, obviously, but Wallet had a nice feature to manage website addresses, names and passwords. Might be nice to see that feature one day? Wallet was fine for me but became unsupported a couple of years ago. Having my iMac data in the iPhone was important so I have transferred.

I wanted to split a Form and found that after importing there was no way to move records, nor create a duplicate form full of duplicate records so that I could partially delete. No problem, I imported the .csv twice and set to deleting the unwanted records in each Form.

But I have a big concern. I only had to hit ‘backspace’ and not ‘command’+’backspace’ which the menus suggest, why is that? Then, once I had turned off the delete confirmation to make the job quicker, I cannot see how to turn it on again. I now have a rather dangerous database that deletes a record if I accidentally hit ‘backspace’ (which I did) while it is highlighted! Argh! AND there is no ‘Edit Undo’ for a deleted record Argh!

The database really needs ‘command’+’backspace’ working; an ability to turn delete confirmation back on; and an edit undo for a ‘big delete’. If, as is likely, I have missed the ‘how to do it’ I will be most grateful if you could assist.

Regards

Norm

[Brendan]

Hi Norm,

You can reset the alert confirmations by going to the Preferences window and clicking on the Reset button there.

I’ll have to look into the command-delete issue on the single-column list view. But the multi-column list view responds to command-delete. This was done because if you select a row in the multi-column list view and just press the Delete key, that simply clears each cell in that row.

[Norman Lorton]

Brendan,

Thank you for pointing me to the Preferences Reset, that’s done the job. It’s my fault for being new and not finding my way around yet.

My apologies if it sounded like I was griping in the first post. Hopefully the feedback on various thoughts is helpful. I guess that most Tap Forms users are ex or potential ‘learner-programmers’ rather than ‘finished app’ users. I am ex 68000 code, Pascal, MS-Access among others from many years ago! Mostly forgotten now. I have just looked at the Tap Forms custom layout resources and the drag and drop is a joy to see and use. The extended print facility also looks very powerful.

Thanks again.

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