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
74 Chapter 9 Using Fields
Field Types
These are the types of fields you can create in Bento:
Table viewForm view
Text field
Fields
Date field
Currency field
Related data field
Choice field
Display phone
number in large type
Field Type Purpose
Text Store anything you type*
Number Store numeric data, with formatting options**
Choice Create a pop-up menu in order to select an item from a list
Checkbox Provide an on-off type of choice
Media Store and use image, movie, sound, and PDF files
Simple list Store data that’s in a variety of data types in columnar format
File list Store and view thumbnails of aliases to files or folders that are on your
computer
Message list Display emails, notes, and RSS articles from the Mac OS X Mail application
Related data Store one or more records from another library or collection that are
related to the current record
Time Choose and store a time of day, in hours, minutes, and seconds, AM or PM
Date Choose and store a date and time value. Displays the date by default and
can also display the time.
Duration Store an amount of time in weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds
Calculation Display the result of a specified calculation. Supported operators are
addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and concatenation (joining
two or more words or sentences).