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
70 Chapter 7 Using Fields
From address, email, IM account, phone number, and URL fields you can perform
tasks such as sending an email message, getting directions to the address in the
selected field, or displaying a phone number in large type.
Field Types
These are the types of fields you can create in Bento:
Table viewForm view
Text field
Fields
Date field
Currency field
Related records
list field
Choice field
Display phone
number in large
type
Field Type Purpose
Text Store anything you type*
Number Store numeric data**
Choice Create a pop-up menu in order to select an item from a list
Checkbox Provide an on-off type of choice
Media Store image, movie, and sound files
File list Store aliases to other files or folders that are on your computer
Message list Display emails, notes, and RSS articles from the Mac OS X Mail application
Related records list Store records from another library or collection that are related to the
current record
Time Store a time of day, in hours, minutes, and seconds, AM or PM