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
64 Chapter 7 Using Fields
Field Types
These are the types of fields you can create in Bento:
For a list of field types that you can import data into, see “Field Types Supported for
Import” on page 82.
List Fields
When you create address, phone number, email address, URL, and IM account fields,
Bento creates an associated list field that lets you store multiple addresses, phone
numbers, and so on for one record. When you enter data in one of these field types,
Bento displays the same data in the associated list field.
Field Type Purpose
Text Store anything you type*
Number Store numeric data**
Choice Create a pop-up menu in order to select an item from a list
Checkbox Store status information
Media Store image, movie, and sound files
File list Store aliases to other files or folders that are on your computer
Related records list Store records from another library or collection that are related to the
current record
Time Store a time of day, in hours and minutes
Date Store a date and time value. Displays the date by default and can also
display the time.
Duration Store an amount of time in weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds
Calculation Display the result of a specified calculation. Supported operators are
addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and concatenation (joining
two or more strings of text).
Currency Store an amount of money
Automatic counter Assign a higher number to each new record
Rating Set the rating value of an item by clicking stars in the field
Address Store all parts 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.