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
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Using Libraries
In Bento, you use libraries to organize your information. You
can use the libraries that Bento provides, and create your
own libraries using templates. You can share your entire
database or selected libraries with up to five users on a local
network.
Bento contains four libraries that display data from other Mac OS X applications:
• Address Book library, which displays contact records from the Address Book
application
• iCal Events library, which displays events from the iCal application
• iCal Tasks library, which displays To Do items from the iCal application
• iPhoto library, which displays photos from the iPhoto application
For information on these libraries, see Chapter 3, “Using the Address Book, iCal, and
iPhoto Libraries” on page 39.
You can also create libraries to hold your information:
• By using the New Library dialog
• By importing existing information from a comma-separated (CSV), tab-
separated (TAB), Numbers, Excel, or library template file
This chapter describes how to use libraries to organize, manage, and share your
information.
About Libraries
Bento stores information in libraries. Libraries are composed of records, and libraries
are defined by the fields in the records.
For example, the Address Book library contains contact records. Contact records are
composed of the fields that are used to store information about contacts and to
update the Address Book application, such as names, addresses, and phone numbers .