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
82 Chapter 8 Importing, Exporting, and Printing
Additional Ways to Import Information
In addition to the File > Import menu item, Bento provides the following ways to
import information:
1 Choose File > New Library to open the New Library dialog. Then click “Import data.”
1 Drag the CSV document icon to the Source list in Bento.
1 Drag the CSV document icon to a specific library or collection in the Source list in
Bento.
1 Drag the CSV document icon to the Bento application icon.
Field Types Supported for Import
You can import into these field types: text, choice, checkbox, number, rating,
currency, time, date, duration, address, phone number, email address, URL, and IM
account.
For this field type This data can be imported
text
choice
address
phone number
IM account
Any text
email address Any text, but a valid email address must include the @ character.
URL Any text, but the URL field does not support URL values that contain
Japanese characters.
checkbox “1” for checked; “0” for not checked
“True” for checked; “False” for not checked
number
currency
Numeric data
rating A number between 0 and 10
time Numeric data in the form HH, HH:MM, or HH:MM:SS, optionally with
“AM” or “PM” where:
1 HH represents the hour (between 0 and 24, if you don’t use “AM” or
“PM”, or between 0 and 12 if you use “AM” or “PM”)
1 MM is minutes (between 0 and 59)
1 SS is seconds (between 0 and 59).
For example: 12:59:59 PM