I am moving from Bento to TF and there is one feature which I used a lot in Bento does not seem to be available in TF. It is about the way the “File Attachment” field works in TF.
I want to be able to find a music file on my Mac, do a ‘Show File in Finder’ option, find the file and drag the file to the “File Attachment” Field to create the file alias.
Once the file alias is created, I want to be able to click on the file and press space bar to open the file which is native to Mac.
How do I do this ?
Sameer
Hi Sameer,
When you drag a file to the File Attachment field in the Finder, Tap Forms adds it as an attachment, not as an alias. You have to use the arrow with + button to attach a file as an alias.
When a file is attached as an attachment, it’s copied into the database as a blob file. To view it you can double-click on it. But what happens is Tap Forms downloads that file to your /tmp directory and then uses whatever app it belongs to, to view it. If you make changes to the file outside of Tap Forms, Tap Forms re-saves the changed file into the database.
I know that normally the space is used for viewing files in the Finder with QuickLook. I haven’t implemented that on the File Attachment field directly yet.
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