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 4 Using Collections 53
Removing Records from a Collection
To remove records from a collection:
1 Select the collection.
2 Select the records and press Command-Delete.
If you click Remove from Collection, the records are removed only from the
collection, not from the associated library. If you click Delete, the records are
permanently removed from both the library and the collection.
Deleting a Collection
To delete a collection:
Select the collection and press the Delete key. The records are removed from the
collection but not from the library.
Note If you delete a library or collection that one or more related data fields are based
on, those related data fields are also deleted.
About Smart Collections
Create a Smart Collection when you want a collection that contains records that meet
criteria you define. Smart Collections show all the records that meet the criteria.
For example, you could create a Smart Collection of contacts who live in the same city.
When you add a new contact record for a person who lives in that city, Bento
automatically adds that contact record to your Smart Collection.
Or you could create a Smart Collection of event records that are due in the same week.
If you add or modify a record so that it meets the criteria, that record appears in the
Smart Collection the next time you click the Smart Collection in the Libraries pane.
Because a Smart Collection is a set of records that match defined criteria, it is different
from a collection in the following ways:
• You cannot manually add records to or remove records from Smart
Collections. To remove certain records from the Smart Collection, edit the
criteria or modify the records’ values so that they no longer meet the criteria.
• You can create Smart Collections in the Address Book library, but Smart
Collections do not appear in the Address Book application.
• You can create Smart Collections in the iCal Events and iCal Tasks libraries,
but Smart Collections do not appear in the iCal application.
• You cannot import records into a Smart Collection.