Tap Forms Manual For Mac

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Tap Forms for Mac 1.0.2 has this feature also. You can turn it on and off on the Import & Export Settings screen on iOS and on the Export Records screen in Tap Forms for Mac. There is an option called Export Linked Records there which does this. Tap Forms will create a single zip file for you that contains all the forms as separate files. Tutor for Tap Forms 5 for the Mac. Learn how to use Tap Forms 5 database from Tap Forms in Tutor for Tap Forms 5. With this database you’ll be able to manage multiple lists or forms to help you be more productive. Create lists or forms for managing your home inventory, bank accounts, loyalty cards, memberships, clients, and more.

Description

Your digital filing cabinet for life’s scattered details. Now with macOS Mojave and Scripting support!
Accounts, recipes, expenses, inventory — life is full of things that we don’t want to forget or misplace. Tap Forms 5 helps you organize all kinds of things in one place — secure, searchable, and accessible on your Mac (iOS + Apple Watch app sold separately).
How can one app organize everything? Because not only can you use and customize the 33 built-in templates but you can create your own “forms” for inputting any kind of information, even if that information includes pictures, doodles, audio recordings, calculations, file attachments, ratings, or even links to other forms. This makes it almost like building your very own customized organization app.
+++ Mac Format Magazine (March, 2014) - comparing Tap Forms to other organizational programs:
'Tap Forms is the clear winner by a mile. The user interface is beautifully Mac-like, the structuring of data is similar enough to Bento that it offers only a shallow learning curve, it offers a direct import of Bento templates, and the iOS companion app is great.'
• Capture your way: add a picture, type some text, attach a file — there are 25 different types of information that can be captured with Tap Forms.
• Organize your way: Create and design custom forms exactly how you want to for optimal organization. Get started with one of our ready-to-go form templates, or easily make a custom one from scratch with our integrated form building tools.
• Store confidential data with confidence: Tap Forms' security settings let you optionally require a password, and even auto-lock when idle for a custom period of time. Using AES encryption, you can rest easy knowing your data is safe and secure.
• Import, Export, Share: It’s easy to import your data from existing files, so getting started is a breeze. Import your data from text, CSV, Bento and more. Exporting allows you to share with Mac, Windows, and Linux users.
Advanced Features:
• Scripting support. You can now create JavaScripts to perform all kinds of operations on your records.
• Sync with Tap Forms for iOS and Mac using iCloud, IBM Cloudant, Nearby (WiFi), or with your own Apache CouchDB sync server.
• Layout designer for creating custom form layouts
• Advanced search rules with multi-field record filtering
• Lightning-fast search
• Share form templates with friends, family, and co-workers
• Import & Export standard text, CSV and XLSX files from Excel, Numbers, or other systems
• Print 24 different types of barcodes including ISBN, UPC, Code 39, QR code, EAN, and more!
• Label printing engine includes over 1,000 Avery® label templates
• Print record details
• List, multi-column, calendar, map, and photo grid views.
Store 25 different types of information, such as:
• Scripts
• Tables
• Link to form (relational links between forms)
• Inverse relationships
• File Attachment with multi-file support
• Email address
• GPS location
• Contact
• Text
• Date
• Time
• Date & time
• Number
• Rating
• Web site address
• Check mark
• Note
• Audio notes (record on iOS, playback on Mac)
• Photos
• Drawings (draw on iOS, view on Mac)
• Phone number
• Section headings
• Calculations
• Signature (capture on iOS, view on Mac)
Includes more than 33 built-in forms, including:
• Audio dictation
• Bank accounts
• Clients
• Client call log
• Credit & debit cards
• Daily journal
• Expenses
• Frequent flyer numbers
• Health insurance
• Homework assignments
• Loyalty cards
• Personal health cards
• Security alarm codes
• Serial numbers
• Vehicle insurance
• Website accounts
• Wine collection

What’s New

Version 5.3.7:
Fixes a crash when clicking on the note button on the Default Layout to edit the contents of a Note field that has been set to be plain text.
Version 5.3.6:
• Added support for setting the colour of a Rating field on a custom layout. Use the colour button on the Text toolbar to set the selected Rating field’s star colour.
• Added support for setting a Note field to be a Plain Text Note. Tap Forms will then display all the content in a Note field using a single font and size.
• Fixed bug where you could still paste into an Auto-Increment field on the multi-column list view.
• Fixed bug where if you entered a value into a field on a custom layout and then clicked on a Pick List value (radio or checkbox), Tap Forms would lose the value entered into the field.
• Fixed a crash when saving (hence closing) the Location field map window on macOS Sierra.
• Fixed bug where Tap Forms was not taking into consideration the search term when setting up the calculations popup button.
• Recognize Nearby sync for display on documents list.
• Worked on label printing position issue when starting off in a different column.
• Fixed crash hiding sections on photo grid view.
• Fixed sorting issue where Tap Forms wasn’t remembering the sort direction on File Attachment fields.
• Fixed bug where duplicating a form wasn’t selecting the new form.
• Support for smaller font sizes on the multi-column list view.
• Fixed hang problem when determining if the auto-complete should appear or not in the Script Editor. It would hang when typing a quote character or when just entering in quote-space-quote.
If you enjoy using Tap Forms and have a couple of spare minutes, please leave a review. I really appreciate every review. Each one makes a huge difference to the success and continued development of Tap Forms. Thanks in advance! - Brendan

57 Ratings

Best Ever...

Wait, I haven’t written a review about TapForms yet? impossible, it’s only my most used app, ever since the first iPhone or whenever this app was first offered for sale. It started as my password holder, but over the years it has grown and blossomed like the phone itself. i was using this app way back when it had a crappy icon, yeah I’ve been a fan since before Brendan was famous. TapForms now is a daily user for me and indexing every kind of note, document, folder and all those passwords. So many passwords. And behind all the great design and funtionality is Brendan, the dev team and owner in one. Over the years, I’ve come to Brendan for help with how to do this or do that, and he’s always been there, always in a timely manner. I’m not really doing this app justice either, because I use about 20% of what it can do. It can organize just about everything digital and keep it safe. It doesn’t get any better than that.
I just realized that I’m reviewing this on the Mac App Store, so that would be a review of the Mac based version of TapForms, and I do have that as well, but my review above was talking about the phone app, sorry bout that if any of you got confused. The take away here is that Brendan has created and continues to improve an app that is more than worth the price of purchase, whichever operating system you use.

I will be very, very unhappy if this program ever goes away

Tap Forms is my go-to data organizer. My daily steps/activity/weight readings (going back to Sept 2008 — I brought over data from Bento when they disestablished); my medical results/readings/appointment notes; lists of various documents such as insurance, with details in case the house burns or whatever; wines we like and dislike (with photos of the labels, because we remember labels better than names); soup mixes we like and dislike, with notes on variations we’ve tried; my wife’s crochet projects, with details I don’t understand and pretty photos; and a database of online writers I’ve tipped via PayPal. Oh, and an encrypted record of all our usernames and passwords. All of this gets backed up and synched across our iOS devices, so no matter where we go, we have these records. In the previous main version, synching was okay, but needed a kick occasionally; with the current version, it took me a little while to have a warm fuzzy it was working, it was so fast and reliable and unobtrusive. I am very dependent on this program (even more so than I was on Bento), and I don’t even use half of its great features.

so far not so good

I just bought this today. There are supposed to be 33 built in forms. I can find ZERO. I have tried to play the training videos. They never load. I have tried to import my contacts, I cannot. I am supposed to be able to link forms, I cannot figure out how. I have used MS Access very successfully. I was able to teach the Apple Store trainers how to use Bento and connect forms in ways they truly did not know were possible. For years I have searched for a Bento replacement without having to buy FileMaker for several $100’s. This should be easier and there should be usable directions. If I cannot make this work in a reasonable amount of time and effort, I will be requesting a refund for both the iPhone app and the Mac app.
Update: after about an hour of searching I found the 33 built in forms. However, I cannot move them to the folders I want them in. I do not want to mix personal and business. Still cannot figure out how to import contacts, or link databases. So frustrated. I have downloaded the FileMaker Pro free trial. I wish I had not downloaded this paid version from the Apple App store, as there is a free trial version on the Tap Forms website. Try it before you buy it. It is not as easy and flexible as implied so far. If I were completely new to databases that would be one thing, but I have enough experience to understand how they “should” work in general.

Developer Response,

Thanks for purchasing Tap Forms 5. For anyone else concerned about the 33 built-in forms, they're in the Sample Forms document that is automatically installed when you launch Tap Forms 5.
There is a Contact field type you can add to your form to reference contacts from the Apple Contacts database. In Tap Forms 5.2 (coming soon), I've added an Import Contacts function to import them all in one go. But for now just add a Contact field type to reference individual contacts.
For linking forms together, add a Link to Form field to your form. See the chapter on 'Relationships' in the online user manual, which you can view from the Help menu.
The video screencasts are just on my Vimeo website so should load into any web browser, such as Safari. You can access them from under the Help menu.
If you would like further help, please contact me at support@tapforms.com or visit my support form on my website by clicking the Forums button there. - Brendan.

Information

Size

22.5 MB

Compatibility

macOS 10.12 or later, 64-bit processor

Languages

English, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish

Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

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Tap Forms 1.5 is a personal database app for your Mac offering a number of useful tools for collecting and managing your personal information. The app makes it easy to create basic relational databases, offers iCloud synchronization, provides data encryption, and includes dozens of pre-fabbed databases you can use as they are or as a foundation for building new databases of your own.

Tap Forms uses a single window consisting of three columns to display all of your information. The first is a forms column displaying all available forms. The second and third columns display your data in list and form views. A small button at the top of the window lets you toggle the second column to a spreadsheet-like list of your data at the top of the window. At the top of the forms column is a small slider letting you toggle between a list of all available forms, including Tap Forms built-in templates, or a list of your forms. Your forms are automatically populated with new forms you’ve created or pre-existing templates you’ve added your own data to.

Forms and databases are synonymous in Tap Forms, so every form is a database. You create new forms by selecting Forms > New Form or by clicking the (+) that appears at the bottom of the form column. Choosing either of these options drops a New Form sheet from the top of the window, which you use to give your form a name and set form properties. You then click a field properties tab where you can create new fields for your form.

Tap Forms offers 20 different field types, most of which fall into standard categories such as text, number, date, and time, but the app also offers several options for special data types. For example, a Location field allows you to add a map location to a record, a Section Heading field is used to break your data into logically organized sections, and the Link to Form field allows you to create a relationship between the data in your new form and the data in another form you’ve created. So, for example, if you have an employee form that includes information about equipment you’ve given them, you can use the Link to Form field to add the equipment data to your Equipment form when you assign it to your employee.

Some of the form fields can only be used with Tap Forms apps designed for iOS devices. For example, you cannot record audio with your Mac using the Audio Recording field. It is intended only for playback of audio captured using the same field type on your iOS device. I also found that masked fields, fields that are supposed to hide the data you’ve entered, actually display your data in two of the three views.

There are several features that make Tap Forms a standout including iCloud synchronization capabilities and 256-bit AES database encryption options. iCloud synchronization lets you access the same data from multiple devices, including other copies of Tap Form on different Macs and the iOS versions of the app. (iPad and iPhone/iPod touch versions of the app are available for $9 each.) The app also offers encryptions that allows you to encrypt your entire database or only the data stored in specific fields.

Tap forms has a few limitations, some of which may make it a non-starter for some users. First up, the app offers very limited forms customization. You can change the order of items as they appear on a form and use the Section Heading field type to break your form fields into sections, but there are no other options for organizing your data. You are also limited to one form per database, so you can’t create multiple forms that only expose specific aspects of your data. Next up, Tap Forms has limited printing capabilities. These are vastly improved from previous versions of the app, but you are limited to printing either a form or list view of your data. And, given that you have limited form customization capabilities, you have limited report printing options and no way of printing labels using the app.

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