Tap Forms review: Promising personal database is feature-filled
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.
Tap Forms offers you tools that make creating personalized databases quick and easy.
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.
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