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
20 Chapter 1 Overview of Bento
Collections
Create a collection when you want a subset of the records from a library. There are two
kinds of collections:
• Collections are created by adding records from the library to a new collection.
Creating a collection is as easy as creating a playlist in iTunes. Select the
records in the library and use the New Collection from Selection menu item,
or drag the selected records to the Libraries pane.
• Smart Collections are created based on criteria you set up. Records that meet
the defined criteria appear in the Smart Collection. You use Advanced Find to
create a Smart Collection.
See ”Using Collections” on page 43.
Creating Libraries
Bento comes with more than 30 library templates that make it easy for you to create
new libraries of information. A template defines the fields of information used in each
record of a library, which you can change based on your needs. Select the library
template that most closely matches the category of data you want to store.
See ”Creating a Library Using the Bento Templates” on page 30.