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 91
To send an email in form view:
1 Select a form in the navigation bar or choose View > Form View > Form Name.
2 Click next to the email address field.
If you see , the email address is not valid.
3 The default email application opens and displays a blank email message
addressed to the name in the email address field.
4 Compose the message and send it.
To send an email in table view:
1 Select one or more email address fields.
You can select any block of fields to quickly select multiple email address fields.
2 Choose Edit > Email Selected Address or Email Selected Addresses, or press
Shift-Command-M.
3 The default email application opens and displays a blank email message
addressed to the name or names in the selected email address field or fields.
4 Compose the message and send it.
Adding Mac OS X Mail Items to a Message List Field
In message list fields, you can store aliases to Mac OS X Mail messages, notes, and RSS
articles that are relevant to a specific record. For instructions on creating message list
fields, see
”Creating Message List Fields” on page 85.
To add a Mac OS X Mail message, note or RSS article to a message list field:
1 Select a form in the navigation bar or choose View > Form View > Form Name.
2 In the bottom-left corner of the message list field, click to open the Mac
OS X Mail application.
3 In Mac OS X Mail, select a folder that contains messages, notes, or RSS articles.
4 Drag one or more items to the message list field.
Tip Click to show the fields for the message list field in the Fields pane.
To open the items in Mac OS X Mail, see “Working with Files Stored in File List
Fields and Message List Fields” below.
Working with Files Stored in File List Fields and Message List Fields
When browsing records, you can quickly open files or applications stored in file list
fields, and Mac OS X Mail messages, notes, and RSS articles stored in message list
fields.