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  • July 1, 2019 at 11:48 PM #35610

    Chris Ju
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    Hi Brendan,

    have you ever considered implementing a small web server so that you can access TF databases through the web browser?

    Thanks.
    Chris

    July 2, 2019 at 1:20 AM #35611

    Brendan
    Keymaster

    Hi Chris,

    There is a small web server built-in to Tap Forms for iOS. But it’s designed for transferring files back and forth. You need more than just a web server to do what you are asking about though. You need a proper web application server platform to be able to generate the dynamic HTML to serve up. I used to do that in a previous life before Tap Forms. I built web apps using Apple’s WebObjects platform. But it’s not something that I’m really interested in building in to Tap Forms though. There are other web database services out there. And FileMaker Pro does it too I believe.

    Thanks,

    Brendan

    July 2, 2019 at 7:23 AM #35613

    Chris Ju
    Participant

    Hello Brandon,

    I think that would be a great addition to your product. That would be a solution, for example, that you can not edit a database, but only fill. Second, a platform independent use would be possible.

    You could offer this feature as a paid upgrade. That would be very useful especially for small offices.

    Other solutions (for example FileMaker) are usually too complicated and too expensive for small offices.

    You could definitely close a gap there.

    Thanks
    Chris

    July 3, 2019 at 6:50 PM #35622

    Sam Moffatt
    Participant

    With a CouchDB server and a JavaScript frontend, I think someone could actually make this work. I’ve been toying with this on and off for a while but never had the time to finish it off. I started off building a PHP web app frontend but decided that if I could figure out how to join it direct to CouchDB in JS then that’d work better.

    December 31, 2019 at 4:47 AM #39040

    Chris Ju
    Participant

    You need a proper web application server platform to be able to generate the dynamic HTML to serve up

    Could Nextcloud be a possible plattform?

    Thanks!
    Chris

    December 31, 2019 at 1:04 PM #39042

    Sam Moffatt
    Participant

    CouchDB can host everything you need already, it has a built in web server with authentication capabilities and can sync with TapForms. Look up CouchApps as a process, it’s much like what Lotus Notes used to provide (all of these sorts of document stores feel like Notes). In theory you could leverage the CBL replication endpoint in TapForms but that’s read-only.

    The challenge is more finding someone with the time and skill to re-implement all of TapForms in Javascript in a cost effective manner.

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