Help with All Forms

Hi Charlie,

The hierarchy of things in Tap Forms is as follows:

Database Document (a file on disk with a .tapforms file extension)
  --> Category
      --> Form
          --> Fields
          --> Records (contain the instances of the fields)
              --> Values

So to me it sounds like you have 2 Database Documents, each with a different set of forms.

By default Tap Forms creates an “Uncategorized” category which will hold all forms that you haven’t put into any specific category within the document. But you can create other categories too. If you open up the Sample Forms document, you’ll see there are categories within it such as Business, Personal, Miscellaneous, and Uncategorized. It allows you to rearrange the forms within each category however you would like.

It’s also a holdover from the older version of Tap Forms which didn’t support multiple separate database documents. You used to have to have all forms within the same database, so having categories was a good way to organize them. Now you can have completely separate documents with different sets of forms in them.

If you want to have all of your forms within the same document, then you can use the Export Tap Forms Archive command on each form in your other document to generate a .tfarc file. That’ll contain the form and all of its records within that file. Then open up your other document and use the Import Tap Forms Archive command to import them into that document.

Hope that clears things up and helps a bit.

Thanks!

Brendan