Calendar – Reminders – Contacts

[Steve Apodaca]

I’m trying to determine whether TapForms will integrate with Calendar-Contacts-Reminders. If I have a database that keeps track of my clients appointments, reminders to do certain things, and changes to my Contacts address or phone number, will it be changed in the respective application? (Contacts-Reminder-Calender?) In other words- how do I know what appointments, events, or contact changes I have in my TapForms database?

[Brendan]

Tap Forms does not integrate with Contacts, Reminders, or Calendars in that manner. Tap Forms has a Contact field type, but it’s used to present you a list of contacts from your Contacts database that you can choose to link to your record in Tap Forms.

There’s no integration with Reminders, but you can enable an alert which will popup a notification once the specified date arrives.

Also, in the next update you’ll be able to add a calendar entry from within Tap Forms. The calendar entry will have a link back to Tap Forms so you will know which record it came from.

Thanks!

Brendan

[Cliff Tarrance]

I am confused about something related to this. With a contact field, when I click the button to display the contact info, the popup window has an edit button. If I click it, I can seemingly edit the contact info. But it doesn’t actually update the contact record, and if I display it again, the original data is back. Bug?

[Brendan]

Hi Cliff,

Looks like a bug creeped in there. Not sure how that happened. I’ll investigate. You should be able to edit the values then click the Save button. It could be a new El Capitan issue because I know that Apple has completely changed the way you access the Contacts database. I’m still doing it the old way to be compatible with OS X 10.9 and OS X 10.10. But OS X 10.11 changes everything with a completely new API.

Thanks,

Brendan

[Cliff Tarrance]

Okay, makes sense. Thanks.

[Brendan]

Well this sucks. Apple may have disabled this feature in El Capitan. I just checked my code and it seems sound. I call the code to save the changes to the Contacts database and it just doesn’t save. The code that I call to save the contact returns YES indicating that it was successful and there was no error at all. It just doesn’t do anything. If I can’t figure something out for that I may have to remove that feature if it doesn’t work. Either that or I need to migrate to the new Contacts framework. The current AddressBook framework is deprecated and Apple won’t support it anymore. But it should still work. But the new Contacts framework requires El Capitan. I would have to make Tap Forms require El Capitan to support the Contacts framework. Hmm… not sure what to do yet.

[Brendan]

I just confirmed that it works fine in OS X 10.9.5. Haven’t tested on OS X 10.10 yet, but I’m sure it works there too. Just not on OS X 10.11. Ugh.

[Cliff Tarrance]

Sorry to hear this. It’s not a show stopper for me. Nice feature, but far from essential. Is there anyway to branch the code depending on the user’s OS version?

[Brendan]

Yes. I was thinking of having it just launch the Contacts app to edit that particular contact when you click the Edit button instead of putting that view into edit mode. But I really need to just migrate to the new Contacts framework and ditch OS X 10.10 and prior.

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