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 23
Collections
Create a collection when you want a subset of the records from a library. There are two
kinds of collections:
• Collections are created by adding records from the library to a new collection.
Creating a collection is as easy as creating a playlist in iTunes. Select the
records in the library and use the New Collection from Selection menu item,
or drag the selected records to the Libraries pane.
• Smart Collections are created based on criteria you set up. Records that meet
the defined criteria appear in the Smart Collection. You use Advanced Find to
create a Smart Collection.
See Chapter 4, “Using Collections” on page 51.
Creating Libraries
Bento comes with more than 30 library templates that make it easy for you to create
new libraries of information. A template defines the fields of information used in each
record of a library, which you can change based on your needs. Select the library
template that most closely matches the category of data you want to store.
See ”Creating a Library Using the Bento Templates” on page 32.