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
84 Chapter 8 Using Fields
7 Click Create.
The new field is added to the Fields pane.
Tip If you are unfamiliar with creating calculations, click Show Examples to see and
experiment with examples of calculations.
Creating File List Fields
Use a file list field to store a list of aliases to files or folders on your computer. Each alias
contains a path to a specific file or folder in a specific location on your hard drive.
You can quickly open files or applications that are stored in file list fields. For example,
you could store a PDF file of a resume in the record for a prospective employee. If you
double-click the PDF icon, the document opens in either Preview or Adobe Reader,
depending on your system default values.
If you move or rename a file or folder that an alias refers to, the alias is broken. If you try
to open the file or folder, you can navigate to it or remove the alias from the list.
To create a file list field and add files to it:
1 Choose Insert > New Field.
2 Choose File List.
3 Name the field.
4 Click Create.
The new field is added to the Fields pane.
5 In form view, drag the field to a form.
See ”Adding Fields to a Form” on page 59.
Tip You can see file list fields in form view but not in table view. Choose View >
Split View so that when you are working in table view you can also see file list
fields in form view.
6 In the bottom-left corner of the table for the file list field, click or choose
Insert > File.
7 In the Open dialog, navigate to the file you want to include in the file list field,
then click Select.
You can also drag files from the Finder to the file list field.
8 Click and choose Open, or double-click an alias in the file list field to
open the file.
You can preview files that are stored in file list fields with Quick Look. See
”Previewing Files with Quick Look” on page 92.