Records Vanished

[Tom Banks]

I have a document of 6.8 mg. The data is of course important. Suddenly, when I use the usual procedure to open the document, the only option I have is New Form. But when I try that, it does not access my records, either. Oddly, another large document also showed no records, but when I clicked on something, records appeared. But now I can’t get that to happen with either document. Other documents tell me No Form Selected. With other documents, if I click on New Form, a new form appears, but also a listing of the document’s records. Can someone (Brendan?) please help me return this to sanity? Thanks.

[Tom Banks]

OK, a somewhat half-shame-faced follow-up. I discover that the little triangle in the top left corner CAN make the record titles visible. Bu sometimes I still have to click on New Form to make the names of records appear PLUS the reveal triangle. To me, that’s an inconsistency, and not a friendly one. But maybe there’s a friendly explanation why Tap Forms directory should work in (what seems to me) a non-standatr Mac manner.

[Brendan]

You may have had the Uncategorized category collapsed as well as the main Forms List.

Click to the right of “Uncategorized” and click on the Show button.

[Brendan]

Also, I don’t think there’s anything there that’s non-standard Mac behaviour. If you look at Apple Mail, they have a Show button that appears to the right of their categories too.

[Tom Banks]

Brendan, Thanks for quickly appearing. I agree now that the Uncategorized category and main Forms list had collapsed. I did not expect this because I had not told Tap Forms to do that. I did not expect a need for a New Form. All the documents that I had not recently opened showed no records available when I opened the document. I think documents ought to stay put when reopened.

As for the Mail app user interface analogy…I do not think it’s really analogous. When I look at my main Mail window, there is no Show button at the top left. In fact, to hide and show the Mailbox list (left column) takes a menu command (View or Cmd-Shift-M). Each of those listed mailboxes (which do have Show triangles) shows all their mail. It doesn’t go away and require rediscovery when I reopen the app. (Why have to click on New Form? I had a perfectly good old one.) Finally, I can get to my files (the ones not recently used) without having to dig down into Library>Containers>Etc to find them. In short, I don’t know any other Mac main window that works like that of Tap Forms.

In sum, I’m sure like to see the main window and its behavior reconsidered.

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