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
Chapter 7 Using Fields 71
For a list of field types that you can import data into, see “Field Types Supported for
Import” on page 93.
List Fields
When you create address, phone number, email address, URL, and IM account fields,
Bento creates an associated list field that lets you store multiple addresses, phone
numbers, and so on for one record. When you enter data in one of these field types,
Bento displays the same data in the associated list field.
Date Store a date and time value. Displays the date by default and can also
display the time.
Duration Store an amount of time in weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds
Calculation Display the result of a specified calculation. Supported operators are
addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and concatenation (joining
two or more words or sentences).
Currency Store an amount of money
Automatic counter Assign a higher number to each new record
Rating Set the rating value of an item by clicking stars in the field
Address Store all components of a single street address
Phone number Store a phone number, including the area code
Email address Store an email address
URL Store a website, FTP site, or AFP site address***
IM account Store an IM account and service name
Notes:
*Maximum text field size is approximately 2 GB.
**The largest number supported is 2
63
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***The URL field does not support URL values that contain Japanese
characters.
Field Type Purpose