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Using Collections
This chapter describes how to use collections to further
organize your records in Bento.
In Bento, your records are kept in libraries, as described in Chapter 2, “Using Libraries”
on page 31. If you want to organize records in different ways or if you want to work
with a subset of the records in a library, you can create a collection.
About Collections
A collection is a set of records from a library. You can create a collection to:
• Create a set of records for a special purpose. For example, you could create a
collection of the people invited to a specific event.
• Sort records in a different order. For example, you could create a collection of
contacts to sort the contact records by last name.
• Export the data from the records in the collection rather than from all the
records in the library.
A collection in Bento is similar to a playlist in iTunes. If you have used iTunes, you know
how convenient it is to use a playlist to create a compilation of songs and videos.
Collections in Bento give you the same convenience for grouping records from a
library.
A collection contains records from a single library. For example, you can put records
from the Address Book library in an Address Book collection such as Vendors. You
cannot put any other library’s records in the Vendors collection.
Vendors collection in the
Address Book library