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
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Navigation Bar
The navigation bar contains several controls that help you display information in
Bento.
• Click to see records in table view.
• Click to see records in grid view.
• Click one of the form view buttons to see records one at a time in a page-like
view. In the example below, there are two form view buttons: “Overview” and
“Details.” You can have as many form views as you want.
• Click to switch to split view from table view or form view.
• Click to switch to split view from grid view.
• To move through the records in a library or collection, click the Previous
record and Next record buttons (the arrow buttons).
To go to the first record, Option-click the Previous record button. To go to the last
record, Option-click the Next record button.
Search Field and Advanced Find
• Use the Search field to do a simple search for text in all field types except
media, related data, file list, message list, simple list, and encrypted.
Note You can search encrypted fields if they are unlocked.
• Use Advanced Find to find a set of matching records by defining search
values and criteria for specific fields.
Form view
buttons
New form Delete form
Previous
record
Show or hide
split view
Next
record
Search
field
Grid
view
Table
view
Click here for
Advanced Find