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Mar
6
Related Records List Update – Part Two
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Let’s talk a little more about self-referencing relationships. As shown in Simon’s tutorial with the Cycling Library, dragging a Library onto itself can be quite useful. It’s a great way to display a custom set of records at once from the same Library without having to create any Collections and combining a Form design with a Table. Play with it and I’m sure you’ll find that possibility to be a great option at your disposal.
Two examples: in Address Book you could have all your Tennis buddies displayed at once whenever you look at the record of a player.
In a listing of sports race results you could display all races to date.
Next I want to explain the two extra buttons that Bento 2 added to the bottom of the Related Records List Field. On the left side one button was added with a little arrow in it. When you select a record and click that button, Bento takes you to the actual record (form view) in the source Library. You can stay there as long as you wish, browsing and editing, but you can return to the Library (and the exact record) where you came from by clicking on the extra arrow button that appears on top of the window next to the browse arrows. Try it out, it’s very convenient and helpful.
The other new button was added to the right bottom, next to the summary row button. When you click it, the fields display (below the Bento Library pane) flips to display only the fields of the source Library. Now you can check and uncheck fields you want or don’t want displayed in the Related Records List Field. Another very useful new feature.
Next week, in the last installment of this update, we’ll discuss relational loops.
Mar
4
… of starting to alter themes. Sorry, one more preparation article, next week we’re actually changing fonts and you can then use your new theme right away!
First, duplicate the themPack file we looked at last week, so we always have access to our test file. You can rename the duplicate to anything you want – its name has nothing to do with its functionality, so you can rename it again later.
I want to stress two things before we continue. I had added a special note to last week’s article, so in case you missed it: all this only works in Bento 2.
Secondly, this hack does not alter the Bento program file in any way, just individual theme bundles, and you should always work with duplicates, so not to change the original themes.