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 73
6 Repeat steps 2-5 to create additional fields.
7 Click Close.
The fields are added to the Fields pane.
8 In the Fields pane, add or display fields.
Note: In table view, you cannot see media fields or any of the list field types: address,
email address, phone number, IM account, URL, related records list, file list, and
message list.
After you have created a field, you can enter data into it, one record at a time.
Creating Calculation Fields
To create a calculation field:
1 Choose Insert > New Field.
2 Choose Calculation.
3 Click Continue.
4 Name the field.
5 Build a formula for your calculation.
To Do this in the Fields pane
Add a field to a form in form view or split view Drag
to the form.
Display a field as a column in table view or split view Select a field’s checkbox.
To add Do this
A reference to a
field
In the Available Fields list, double-click a field name.
A mathematical
or text operator
Click an operator button or type an operator in the formula.
The current date Click Today to insert the current date.
The current time Click Now to insert the current time.
A pre-formatted
value
Click Value, then select a value from the list. Replace the pre-formatted value with the
value you want.