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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Using Collections
This chapter describes how to use collections to further
organize your records in Bento.
In Bento, your records are kept in libraries, as described in Chapter 2, “Using Libraries”
on page 29. If you want to organize records in different ways or if you want to work
with a subset of the records in a library, you can create a collection.
About Collections
A collection is a set of records from a library. You can create a collection to:
• Create a set of records for a special purpose. For example, you could create a
collection of the people invited to a specific event.
• Sort records in a different order. For example, you could create a collection of
contacts to sort the contact records by last name.
• Export the data from the records in the collection rather than from all the
records in the library.
A collection in Bento is similar to a playlist in iTunes. If you have used iTunes, you know
how convenient it is to use a playlist to create a compilation of songs and videos.
Collections in Bento give you the same convenience for grouping records from a
library.
A collection contains records from a single library. For example, you can put records
from the Address Book library in an Address Book collection such as Vendors. You
cannot put any other library’s records in the Vendors collection.
Vendors collection in the
Address Book library