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
70 Chapter 7 Using Fields
You can create related records lists that display records from the Bento iCal Events
and iCal Tasks libraries. If you change an iCal Event or iCal Task record in a related
records list, you are actually updating the data in the iCal application.
If you delete an event or task record from the iCal application, it is removed from any
related records list where it appeared in Bento.
Using the Fields List
The Fields list displays an alphabetical list of the fields that are available for the
selected library or collection. Use the Fields list to select the fields that you want to
add to the current form (in form view) or to display as columns (in table view).
In the Fields list you can:
1 create a field by clicking
1 drag a field with to a form
1 select a field’s checkbox to display the field in table view
1 double-click field names to modify names and settings. Some fields are locked .
You can’t modify their names or settings because they are shared with Address
Book and iCal or are reserved by Bento.
1 delete a field and its data by clicking . When you delete a field, it is deleted from
the library and from collections and related records list fields that use it. You can’t
delete fields that are used for displaying data from Address Book and iCal, locked
fields, address subfields (for example, street, city, and country fields), and the Date
Created and Date Modified fields.
Note: In the Fields list in table view, there is no checkbox next to media fields or any
of the list field types (address, email address, phone number, IM account, URL,
related records list, and file list) because these fields can’t be displayed in table
view.
Field has not
been added to
the current form.
Field has been
added to the
current form.
Locked field
Locked field
Field is displayed in
table view.
Field is not displayed
in table view.
List field (address, email
address, phone number,
IM account, URL, related
records list, file list) has no
checkbox because it can’t
be displayed in table view.
Fields list in table viewFields list in form view