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
Chapter 1 Overview of Bento 19
Libraries Pane
The Libraries pane displays the libraries and collections that are in Bento.
• A library categorizes data by content. Bento provides several libraries by
default. The Projects library, which stores data about projects, is an example
library with sample data. You can create libraries to store other categories of
data. You can organize a group of libraries within a folder.
To add a library to the Libraries pane, click the New Library button. See ”Using
Libraries” on page 29.
• A collection is set of records from a library. A collection is similar to an Address
Book group or to a playlist in iTunes. A collection contains records from its
parent library. A record from the library can be in more than one collection.
For example, one person might be both a friend and a co-worker. If you had
one collection named “Friends” and another named “Co-workers” you could
add this person’s contact record to both collections in the Address Book
library.
To add a collection to the Libraries pane, click the New Collection button. See
”Using Collections” on page 43.
Tip If you want to change the size of the icons and text in the Libraries pane, choose
Bento > Preferences. For “Libraries Pane Text,” select Small or Large.
Address Book
Library
iCal Events
Library
Collection of
iCal Events
Collection of
records from
Projects
New Library
New Collection
iCal Tasks
Library
Projects Library