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
Chapter 9 Using Fields 75
Note The date and time formats vary depending on the current System Preferences
settings. See Mac Help for information about changing the format.
For a list of field types that you can import data into, see ”Field Types Supported for
Import” on page 110.
List Fields
When you create address, phone number, email address, URL, and IM account fields,
Bento creates an associated list field that lets you display multiple addresses, phone
numbers, and so on for one record. When you enter data in one of these single field
types, Bento displays the same data in the associated list field.
For example, suppose you have a form that displays a home phone number in a phone
number field named “Home Phone Number.” You add work and mobile phone
numbers to two other phone number fields. Bento creates a list field and displays all
three phone numbers in that list field, but the work and mobile phone numbers are
not added to the “Home Phone Number” field you created.
Currency Store an amount of money and display it in the selected currency format
Automatic counter Assign a higher number to each new record
Rating Set the rating value of an item by clicking stars in the field
Encrypted Protect sensitive or confidential data and hide it from view (data is
displayed as bullets). Encrypted data is stored in your Bento database.
Location Store location information (latitude and longitude) and display a map of
the location in a web browser. Locations are displayed either in decimal
degrees or in degrees, minutes, and seconds.
Latitude values range from -90 to 90 degrees. Positive values correspond to
North latitudes; negative correspond to South.
Longitude values range from -180 to 180 degrees (or 0 to 360 degrees).
Positive values correspond to East longitudes; negative correspond to
West.
Address Store all components of a single street address
Phone number Store a phone number, including the area code
Email address Store an email address
URL Store a website, FTP site, or AFP site address***
IM account Store an IM account and service name
Notes:
*Maximum text field size is approximately 2 GB.
**The largest number supported is 2
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***The URL field does not support URL values that contain Japanese
characters.
Field Type Purpose