User manual
Table Of Contents
- Bento® 4
- Welcome to Bento
- Overview of Bento
- Using Libraries
- Using the Address Book Library
- Migrating the iCal, iPhoto, and Address Book Libraries
- Using Collections
- Using Form View
- About Forms
- Creating Records in Form View
- Editing Records in Form View
- Duplicating Records in Form View
- Deleting Records in Form View
- Creating Forms
- Deleting Forms
- Showing and Hiding Forms
- Duplicating Forms
- Copying Forms
- Renaming Forms
- Locking and Unlocking Forms
- Adding Fields to a Form
- Tabbing Between Fields
- Moving Fields and Objects on Forms
- Resizing Fields and Objects
- Removing Fields from a Form
- Customizing Form Layouts
- Using Table View
- About Table View
- Selecting Records in Table View
- Creating Records in Table View
- Editing Records in Table View
- Duplicating Records in Table View
- Deleting Records in Table View
- Sorting Records
- Working with Fields and Columns in Table View
- Creating Fields in Table View
- Adding Fields in Table View
- Working with Media Fields in Table View
- Changing Options for a Field in Table View
- Completing Text Automatically as You Type
- Duplicating Fields
- Changing the Field Type
- Showing and Hiding Columns
- Deleting Fields in Table View
- Reordering Columns
- Resizing Columns
- Filling Fields Automatically
- Summarizing Column Data
- Using Grid View
- Using Fields
- Importing, Exporting, and Printing
- Backing Up and Restoring Information
- Syncing
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Reverting to a Previous Version of Bento
- Index
110 Chapter 10 Importing, Exporting, and Printing
Importing a Library Template
A library template file contains all of the forms, collections, Smart Collections, table
view settings, label settings, and related libraries (if they were included at the time of
export) of an exported library. Depending on the settings used to create the library
template, it may or may not contain records.
To import a library template:
1 Choose File > Import > Template.
2 Choose a library template file.
3 Click Open.
4 Bento adds the library, collections, and Smart Collections contained in the
library template file to the Libraries pane. If the library template file contains
multiple libraries, all of them are added to the Libraries pane.
Additional Ways to Import Information
In addition to the File > Import menu items, Bento provides the following ways to
import information:
• Choose File > New Library from Template to open the New Library dialog.
Then click Import Data.
• Drag a data file (Text, Numbers, Excel format) to the Libraries pane in Bento.
• Drag a data file (Text, Numbers, Excel format) to a specific library or collection
in the Libraries pane in Bento.
• Drag a library template file or data file (Text, Numbers, Excel format) to the
Bento application icon.
Field Types Supported for Import
You can import data into the field types listed in the following table.
Choose a library
template file.