User manual
Table Of Contents
- Bento® 3
- Welcome to Bento
- Overview of Bento
- Using Libraries
- Using the Address Book, iCal, and iPhoto 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 Grid View
- Using Fields
- Importing, Exporting, and Printing
- Backing Up and Restoring Information
- Using Bento with Bento for iPhone and iPod touch
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Reverting to a Previous Version of Bento
- Index
Chapter 1 Overview of Bento 21
Libraries Pane
The Libraries pane displays the libraries and collections that are in Bento.
• A library categorizes data by content. Bento provides several libraries by
default. The Address Book, iCal Tasks, iCal Events, and iPhoto libraries display
data from the Address Book, iCal, and iPhoto applications. The Projects
library, which stores data about projects, is an example library with sample
data. You can create libraries to store other categories of data. You can
organize a group of libraries within a folder.
To add a library to the Libraries pane, click the New Library button. See Chapter 2,
“Using Libraries” on page 31.
• A collection is set of records from a library. A collection is similar to an Address
Book group or to a playlist in iTunes. A collection contains records from its
parent library. A record from the library can be in more than one collection.
For example, one person might be both a friend and a co-worker. If you had
one collection named “Friends” and another named “Co-workers” you could
add this person’s contact record to both collections in the Address Book
library.
To add a collection to the Libraries pane, click the New Collection button. See
Chapter 4, “Using Collections” on page 51.
Tip If you want to change the size of the icons and text in the Libraries pane, choose
Bento > Preferences. For “Libraries Pane Text,” select Small or Large.
Address Book
Library
iCal Events
Library
Collection of
iCal Events
Collection of
records from
Projects
New Library
New Collection
Projects Library
iCal Tasks
Library
iPhoto Library