Edit button (Cancel / Save buttons) missing

[Chris Knight]

TapForms Version 5.2.4 (Build 1748)

I was inputing some records and but I was going back and forth between desktops and monitors with my mouse copy and pasting info and didn’t click twice to get into the right fields before I started typing and it jumped around the record list thinking I was trying to search for a record, then I selected the record I wanted from the record list and there was no button to edit. However, I was able to edit anyway.

Now, no matter if I change records or add a new one the edit button is missing and so is the save / cancel buttons. I can edit without problems. Have I turned on or off something without realizing it that has made these buttons disappear? As long as I can create records and edit them without issue I don’t really care but I am pretty used to having to click that edit button a lot so having it go missing is curious. I’ve attached a screenshot that shows the modes I am in and the lack of any buttons at the bottom.

On a side note, I have been noticing weird behavior with the edit and cancel / save buttons for some time. It sometimes doesn’t change from save /cancel to edit and vice versa. I sometimes have to click save several times before it will switch the edit button to be able to edit. I don’t really know what I am doing to make them behave randomly strange and have not seen a pattern that I can use to describe how to reproduce it. I am reluctant to call it a bug since I’ve done that several times lately when the issue I was seeing/reporting on was more user error or just a Tap Forms design choice than actually a bug.

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[Brendan]

There’s a switch on the General preferences that allows you to control whether or not the Edit/Save button shows up. When it doesn’t show up, you can freely edit your record data just by clicking into a field. With it enabled, you have to first click on the Edit button, then the Save button.

[Chris Knight]

Ah! I never noticed that before. I like it. I wonder how I turned it on and why it is on for one database file and not for another. Is this setting not global but attached to each database document?

[Brendan]

All preferences are on a per-document basis. They’re stored inside the .tapforms package as a DocumentProperties.plist file.

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