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Apr
3
The Bento User Guide
Filed Under Bento Basics | 4 Comments
The Bento User Guide is available from within Bento via the Help menu as a PDF document. As of version 1.0v2 of Bento it is 100 pages long and, although I would not suggest reading it from cover to cover, it is worth skimming through it to familiarise yourself with it as it contains a lot of useful information and tips which you may otherwise miss.
Unfortunately there is no printed version available, even in the boxed version. If you want to print your own version but would like to reduce the paper usage, remember that you can always go to the ‘Layout’ print settings and change the number of pages per sheet and two pages per sheet is still readable as long as you have reasonable eyesight or glasses.
Apr
1
Related Records Lists
Filed Under Bento Basics, Tutorials | 27 Comments
Editor’s Note: Related Records Lists have been renamed to Related Data Fields by Filemaker
One of the areas which seems to cause the most confusion for Bento users is that of Related Records Lists. I am therefore delighted to say that I have written a guide to them which will hopefully explain what they can do, when they should be used, and how they are used.
The guide was meant to be fairly comprehensive but also fairly concise but the number of screenshots involved in making it a good visual guide meant that it quickly evolved into a fairly lengthy document so it will initially be released as a PDF and I will try to break it up into a series of actual articles over the next few days.
Comments and suggestions are, as ever, most welcome.
Download the Related Records Lists Guide.
Apr
1
Bento Screencasts
Filed Under Bento Basics, Tutorials | 5 Comments
I am delighted to announce that Don McAllister of ScreenCastsOnline has very kindly decided to make part one of his excellent two-part Bento screencast available for free and is offering a 20% discount off the membership fee of ScreenCastsOnline if you use the promotional code BENTO.
Part one of the screencast covers the following topics:
- Introduction to Bento
- The Bento Interface
- Core Concepts – Libraries and Collections
- Address Book Integration
- Records & Table View
- Form Views
- Creating a Library
- Adding Fields
- Form Customisation
- Themes
- Advanced Find
- Smart Collections
The topics covered in part two include:
- iCal Event and Task Integration
- How you might use iCal integration
- Additional Bento Fields
- Printing Tables and Forms
- Creating Mailing Labels
- How to import Data into Bento
- Backing up Your Data
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The first Bento tutorial is available as a QuickTime MOV file which you can download or watch in your web browser below. Click on the small monitor icon to view the tutorial full screen.