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 8 Using Fields 85
Creating Message List Fields
Use a message list field to store aliases to Mac OS X Mail messages, notes, and RSS
articles that are relevant to a specific record. For example, you can keep a log of
correspondence linked to a project or event.
Note Because the message list field stores aliases to messages, when you delete a
message from Mac OS X Mail, it is also deleted from the message list field.
To create a message list field:
1 Choose Insert > New Field.
2 Choose Message List.
3 Name the field.
4 Click Create, then Close.
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.
Note You can see message list fields in form view but not in table view.
6 Add Mac OS X Mail items (messages, notes, and RSS articles) to the field.
See ”Adding Mac OS X Mail Items to a Message List Field” on page 91.
Creating Related Data Fields
Use a related data field to display one or more records from a library or collection that
are related to the record you are viewing.
For example, if you used the Projects library to manage planning a holiday party and
wanted to display a list of vendors on a form, you could create a related data field to
display the vendors that you hired to supply different types of party equipment. These
records come from the Vendors collection under the Address Book library. If you add a
new record in the related data field, the record is displayed there but is stored in the
Vendors collection and the Address Book application.