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
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Using Libraries
In Bento, you use libraries to organize your information. You
can use the libraries that Bento provides, and create your
own libraries using templates. You can share your entire
database or selected libraries with up to five users on a local
network.
You can create libraries to hold your information:
• By using the New Library dialog
• By importing existing information from a comma-separated (.csv), tab-
separated (.tab), Numbers, Excel, or library template file
This chapter describes how to use libraries to organize, manage, and share your
information.
About Libraries
Bento stores information in libraries. Libraries are composed of records, and libraries
are defined by the fields in the records.
For example, the default Projects library records are composed of fields that are useful
for managing projects, such as fields for the project status, start and end dates, and
team member information.
Bento provides several ways for you to view the records of a library:
• Form view shows fields from a single record. Each page shows one record at a
time, for example, a single contact record in the Address Book library. You can
have more than one form view for the library. See
”Using Form View” on
page 47.
• Table view shows the records in a table, for example, a list of the contacts in
the Address Book library. Each row in the table represents a single record in
the library. See
”Using Table View” on page 59.