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
76 Chapter 9 Using Fields
You can import and export values stored in regular fields (for example, “Home Phone
Number” in the form shown above) but you can’t import or export values stored in list
fields. You can see values stored in list fields in form view but not in table view.
Creating Fields
Follow the steps below to create all types of fields, except calculation, file list, message
list, related data fields, and location fields. For more information about those field
types, see
”Creating Calculation Fields” on page 77, ”Creating File List Fields” on
page 78, ”Creating Message List Fields” on page 79, ”Creating Related Data Fields” on
page 80, and ”Creating Location Fields” on page 79.
For information about adding a field to a form, see ”Adding Fields to a Form” on
page 52.
To create fields:
1 Choose Insert > New Field or press Control-N.
2 Choose a field type.
3 Name the field.
The name must be unique within the library.
4 Set the options on the field, if any.
5 Click “Create and Continue” or press Command-Return.
6 Repeat steps 2-5 to create additional fields.
7 Click Close.
The fields are added to the Fields pane and the current form.
On Form 1, you enter data in single
phone number fields.
Phone number list field created by Bento
Single
phone
number
fields
Form 1 Form 2
On Form 2, Bento displays the data in the
phone number list field that you entered in
the single phone number fields.