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
80 Chapter 9 Using Fields
4 Select a format: Decimal Degrees or Degrees, Minutes & Seconds.
Example of a location in Decimal Degrees format:
37.406300° N, 121.983400° W
Example of a location in Degrees, Minutes & Seconds format:
37°24’ 23” N, 121°59’0” W
For more information about latitude and longitude values, see ”Field Types” on
page 74.
5 Select “Automatically enter location” to capture your current location when a
record is modified or created (requires an active connection to a wireless
network and Mac OS X 10.6 installed).
Choose “When the record is modified” or “When the record is created.”
6 Click Create.
The new field is added to the Fields pane and the current form.
Note Bento can enter your current location only if you have enabled Location
Services in System Preferences. For OS X Lion 10.7, you also need to select the
Bento checkbox in the Security & Privacy pane of System Preferences to allow
Bento to determine your location.
Creating Related Data Fields
Use a related data field to display one or more records from a library or collection that
are related to the record you are viewing.
For example, if you used the Projects library to manage planning a triathlon and
wanted to display a list of vendors on a form, you could create a related data field to
display the vendors that you hired to supply equipment and food. These records come
from the Vendors collection. If you add a new record in the related data field, the
record is displayed there but is stored in the Vendors collection.
You can create a related data field by using menu commands (as outlined below) or by
dragging a library or collection to a form (see
”Creating Related Data Fields by
Dragging Records” on page 82).
You can see related data fields in form view but not in table view.
To create a related data field:
1 Select the library or collection you want to add a list of related records to.
2 Choose Insert > New Field or press Control-N.
3 Choose Related Data.
4 Name the field.
5 Choose the data source from the list.
The data source can be a library, collection, or Smart Collection. If you select a
library, you can add any record from the library to the related data field. If you