User manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Welcome to Bento
- Overview of Bento
- Using Libraries
- Using the Address Book and iCal 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
- Adding Fields to a Form
- Moving Between Fields
- Moving Fields and Objects on Forms
- Resizing Fields and Objects
- Deleting Fields from a Form
- Duplicating Forms
- Renaming Forms
- Customizing Form Layouts
- Using Table View
- Using Fields
- Importing, Exporting, and Printing
- Backing Up and Restoring Information
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Index
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7 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, and lists of files.
This chapter describes the purpose of the field types, how to create and modify fields,
how to use the Fields list in table view or form view, and work with file list fields and
media fields.
About Fields
Each library or collection contains a set of fields. Each field allows you to store a
particular kind of data. In the record pictured below, there are seven fields. The
Project Name field contains text. The Start and End fields contain dates. The Status
and Priority fields contain pop-up menus that allow you to make a choice from a list.
The Budget field stores an amount of money. The Vendors field stores information
from other records that are related to the current record.
Once you have created a field, you can use it on multiple forms within the same
library or collection.
Table viewForm view
Text field
Fields
Date field
Currency field
Related records
list field
Choice field