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 75
6 In the bottom-left corner of the table for the file list field, click or choose
Insert > File.
7 In the Open dialog, navigate to the file you want to include in the file list field, then
click Select.
You can also drag files from the Finder to the file list field.
8 Click or double-click an alias in the file list field to open the file.
Creating Message List Fields
Use a message list field to store aliases to Mac OS X Mail messages, notes, and RSS
articles that are relevant to a specific record. For example, you can keep a log of
correspondence linked to a project or event.
To create a message list field:
1 Choose Insert > New Field.
2 Choose Message List.
3 Name the field.
4 Click Create, then Close.
The new field is added to the Fields pane.
5 In form view, drag the field to a form.
See “Adding Fields to a Form” on page 55.
Note: You can see message list fields in form view but not in table view.
6 Add Mac OS X Mail items (messages, notes, and RSS articles) to the field.
See “Adding Mac OS X Mail Items to a Message List Field” on page 81.