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 Fields
Bento provides a wide variety of field types to store the kinds
of information you use in your daily life.
In Bento, you can choose from many different field types to track things such as
names, addresses, dates, times, prices, images, movies, songs, and lists of files.
This chapter describes the purpose of the field types, how to create and modify fields,
how to use the Fields pane, and work with the various types of fields that Bento
provides.
About Fields
Each library (except the Blank library) contains a set of fields. Each field allows you to
store a particular kind of data. In the record pictured on the next page, there are
several fields. For example, the Project Name field contains text.
Once you have created a field, you can use it on multiple forms and tables within the
same library or collection. When you want to link data between libraries or collections,
you can use related data fields.
From address, email, IM account, phone number, and URL fields you can perform tasks
such as sending an email message, getting directions to an address, or displaying a
phone number in large type.