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
82 Chapter 9 Using Fields
8 Click to display records from the data source you specified in step 5.
Select the records you want to add to the related data field, then click Save
Changes.
• Click to add a record. If the data source is a Smart Collection, is
disabled, since you can’t add records to a Smart Collection.
• Click to remove the record from the related data field. The record still
remains in the data source (the library or collection) that the related data field
is based on.
• If you delete a library or collection that a related data field is based on, the
related data field is also deleted.
• If a record that appears in a related data field is deleted in its data source, the
record is also deleted from any other related data field it appears in.
• To change the data in a related data field, click . A window opens,
showing records from the related library or collection. Any records that are
already related to the current record are selected and highlighted. To add
more related records, select records in the window to add, then click Save
Changes. To remove records, select records in the window to remove, then
click Save Changes. Records are removed only from the related data field;
they remain in the data source.
Creating Related Data Fields by Dragging Records
Another way to create a related data field is to begin with a record or records that you
want to relate to (appear in) another library or collection. The illustration below shows
how to have related Projects records in the Vendors collection.