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 Fields
Bento provides a wide variety of field types to store the kinds
of information you use in your daily life.
In Bento, you can choose from many different field types to track things such as
names, addresses, dates, times, prices, images, movies, songs, locations, and lists of
files.
This chapter describes the purpose of the field types, how to create and modify fields,
how to use the Fields pane, and work with the various types of fields that Bento
provides.
About Fields
Each library contains a set of fields. Each field stores a particular kind of data. In the
record pictured on the next page, there are several fields. For example, the Project
Name field contains text.
Once you have created a field, you can use it on multiple forms and tables within the
same library or collection. When you want to link data between libraries or collections,
you can use related data fields.
From email, address, phone number, IM account, URL, and location fields you can
perform tasks such as sending an email message, getting directions to an address,
displaying a phone number in large type, or capturing a specific location at the time a
record is created or modified.