User manual
Table Of Contents
- Bento® 4
- Welcome to Bento
- Overview of Bento
- Using Libraries
- Using the Address Book Library
- Migrating the iCal, iPhoto, and Address Book Libraries
- Using Collections
- Using Form View
- About Forms
- Creating Records in Form View
- Editing Records in Form View
- Duplicating Records in Form View
- Deleting Records in Form View
- Creating Forms
- Deleting Forms
- Showing and Hiding Forms
- Duplicating Forms
- Copying Forms
- Renaming Forms
- Locking and Unlocking 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
- About Table View
- Selecting Records in Table View
- Creating Records in Table View
- Editing Records in Table View
- Duplicating Records in Table View
- Deleting Records in Table View
- Sorting Records
- Working with Fields and Columns in Table View
- Creating Fields in Table View
- Adding Fields in Table View
- Working with Media Fields in Table View
- Changing Options for a Field in Table View
- Completing Text Automatically as You Type
- Duplicating Fields
- Changing the Field Type
- Showing and Hiding Columns
- Deleting Fields in Table View
- Reordering Columns
- Resizing Columns
- Filling Fields Automatically
- Summarizing Column Data
- Using Grid View
- Using Fields
- Importing, Exporting, and Printing
- Backing Up and Restoring Information
- Syncing
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Reverting to a Previous Version of Bento
- Index
112 Chapter 10 Importing, Exporting, and Printing
You cannot import into these field types: file list, media, automatic counter,
calculation, related data, message list, or encrypted (when locked).
When you import into an address, phone number, email, URL, or IM account field, the
data is automatically added to the associated address list, phone number list, email
address list, URL list or IM account list field.
See ”Using Fields” on page 73 for additional information on field types.
Note The message “Some values in some records can’t be imported” in the Import
dialog means that one or more record values are not valid for the type of field to which
you are importing the values. For example, you cannot import alphabetic text into a
number field or into a date field. You can either change the field type to match the
data, or proceed with import. If you proceed with import, the invalid values will not be
imported. Other options are to change the contents of the file or to import the data
into a Text field. Text fields accept all values.
Exporting Information from Bento
Bento can export information into a .csv, .tab, Numbers, or Excel 2008 file from a
library, from a collection, from a Smart Collection, or from the results of a search or
Advanced Find.
Bento can export a library into a library template file. This is a good way to preserve
the structure of an individual library or give a library to another Bento user. A library
template file contains all of the forms, collections, Smart Collections, table view
settings, and related libraries (if they were included at the time of export) of an
exported library. You can include or omit records from the library template. You can
give the library template file to other Bento users.
duration Text representing a duration in weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds.
The text may use the following abbreviations:
• w for weeks
• d for days
• h for hours
• m for minutes
• s for seconds
For example, the following are all valid duration text:
• 8 days, 5 hours
• 8d,5h
• 8d5h
location Location information (latitude and longitude) either in decimal degrees
or in degrees, minutes, hours.
For this field type This data can be imported