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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Migrating the iCal, iPhoto, and
Address Book Libraries
When you first start Bento for Mac, if you have any existing iPhoto, iCal Events, or iCal
Tasks libraries, Bento asks you to migrate the data.
When you sync Bento for Mac with Bento 4 for iPad, if you have an existing Address
Book library, Bento asks you to migrate the data.
When you migrate an Address Book or iCal library, all the data in the library is moved
to a new Bento library. The new library contains all your original data, including all
your collections, smart collections, forms, relations to other libraries, and settings.
The new Bento libraries with the migrated data are not connected to the Mac OS
Address Book or iCal applications. For example, if you update a contact in the Mac OS
Address Book after migrating the data, the information will not be updated in the new
Bento Contacts library. Similarly, if you update a contact in the new Bento Contacts
library, the information will not be updated in the Mac OS Address Book.
If the library includes any locked encrypted fields, you are asked to enter the Database
Password to unlock the fields. If you don’t unlock the encrypted fields, Bento does not
migrate the library.
Note Migrating the Bento libraries doesn’t affect your data in the Mac OS Address
Book, iCal, or iPhoto applications.
Migrating the iCal Libraries
When you start Bento for Mac, if you have any existing Bento iCal Tasks or iCal Events
libraries, Bento asks you to migrate the data.
Follow the onscreen instructions to migrate the data. Your Bento iCal Tasks library will
be replaced by a Bento Tasks library. Your Bento iCal Events library will be replaced by
a Bento Events library. The Bento Tasks and Events libraries are not connected to the
Mac OS iCal application.
If you choose to migrate the data later, do one of the following:
• Control-click the iCal Tasks library or the iCal Events library in the Libraries
pane, then choose Migrate iCal.
• Choose your device in the Devices section of the Libraries pane, then click
Migrate. Follow the onscreen instructions to migrate the data.