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
82 Chapter 8 Using Fields
You can import and export values stored in regular fields (for example, “Home Phone
Number” in the form shown above) but you can’t import or export values stored in list
fields. You can see values stored in list fields in form view but not in table view.
Creating Fields
Follow the steps below to create all types of fields, except calculation, file list, message
list, and related data fields. For more information about those field types, see
”Creating Calculation Fields” on page 83, ”Creating File List Fields” on page 84,
”Creating Message List Fields” on page 85, and ”Creating Related Data Fields” on
page 85.
To create fields:
1 Choose Insert > New Field or press Control-N.
2 Choose a field type.
3 Name the field.
The name must be unique within the library.
4 Set the options on the field, if any.
5 Click “Create and Continue” or press Command-Return.
6 Repeat steps 2-5 to create additional fields.
7 Click Close.
The fields are added to the Fields pane.
On Form 1, you enter data in single
phone number fields.
On Form 2, Bento displays the data in the
phone number list field that you entered
in the single phone number fields.
Phone number list field created by Bento
Single
phone
number
fields
Form 1 Form 2