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
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7 Using Fields
Bento provides a wide variety of field types to store the
kinds of information you use in your daily life.
In Bento, you can choose from many different field types to track things such as
names, addresses, dates, times, prices, images, movies, songs, and lists of files.
This chapter describes the purpose of the field types, how to create and modify fields,
how to use the Fields pane, and work with file list fields, message list fields, and media
fields.
About Fields
Each library contains a set of fields. Each field allows you to store a particular kind of
data. In the record pictured below, there are several fields. The Project Name field
contains text. The Start and End fields contain dates. The Status and Priority fields
contain pop-up menus that allow you to make a choice from a list. The Budget field
stores an amount of money. The Vendors field contains a list of vendors that worked
on a particular project. The Phone Number field contains a phone number.
Once you have created a field, you can use it on multiple forms within the same
library or collection.