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
- Viewing a Form and a Table at the Same Time
- Creating Records in Form View
- Editing Records in Form View
- Duplicating Records in Form View
- Deleting Records in Form View
- Creating Forms
- Deleting Forms
- Duplicating Forms
- Renaming 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
- Using Fields
- Importing, Exporting, and Printing
- Backing Up and Restoring Information
- Using Bento with Bento for iPhone and iPod touch
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Index
22 Chapter 1 Overview of Bento
Libraries Pane
The Libraries pane displays the libraries and collections that are in Bento.
1 A library categorizes data by content. Bento provides several libraries by default.
The Address Book, iCal Tasks, and iCal Events libraries display data from the Address
Book and iCal applications. The Projects library, which stores data about projects, is
an example library with sample data. You can create libraries to store other
categories of data.
To add a library to the Libraries pane, click the New Library button.
See Chapter 2, “Using Libraries,” on page 33.
1 A collection is set of records from a library. A collection is similar to an Address Book
group or to a playlist in iTunes. A collection contains records from its parent library.
A record from the library can be in more than one collection. For example, one
person might be both a friend and a co-worker. If you had one collection named
“Friends” and another named “Co-workers” you could add this person’s contact
record to both collections in the Address Book library.
To add a collection to the Libraries pane, click the New Collection button.
See Chapter 4, “Using Collections,” on page 47.
Address Book
Library
iCal Events
Library
Collections of
Address Book
records
Collection of
iCal Events
Collection of
records from
Projects
New Library
New Collection
Projects Library
iCal Tasks Library