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
28 Chapter 1 Overview of Bento
Navigation Bar
The navigation bar contains several controls that help you display information in
Bento.
1 Click the Table button to see records in a spreadsheet-like view.
1 Click one of the form view buttons to see records one at a time in a page-like view.
In the example below, there are two form view buttons: “Overview” and “Details.”
You can have as many form views as you want.
1 Click to show or hide records in both form view and table view at the same
time.
1 To move through the records in a library or collection, click the Previous record and
Next record buttons (the arrow buttons).
To go to the first record, Option-click the Previous record button. To go to the last
record, Option-click the Next record button.
Search Field and Advanced Find
1 Use the Search field to do a simple search for text in all field types except media,
related records list, file list, and message list.
1 Use Advanced Find to find a set of matching records by defining search values and
criteria for specific fields.
To use the Search field:
1 Select the library or collection.
2 Enter a text string into the Search field.
Form view buttons New form Delete form
Previous record
Show or hide
split view
Next record Search field
Table view