Jul

20

Tracking Hours

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Many Bento users want to create a time-recording system of some type. This may be for something such as billing customers, tracking hours contributed by volunteers or monitoring employees. Although these are all slightly different the core functionality is the same and this article will explore some of the various options available.
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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

PDF Page 001.pngOne 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

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SCO_Logo_100x100HD.pngI 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

ScreenCastsOnline is a weekly video podcast with a new Mac related tutorial published every week via iTunes. A full six month membership costs only $39 with the special discount coupon code allowing you to receive the next 26 brand new weekly shows. In addition, membership gives you immediate access to over 140+ HD tutorials featuring many different Mac related software tutorials including the second part of the Bento tutorial. For more information on becoming a ScreenCastsOnline Extra! member visit www.screencastsonline.com/extra and don’t forget to use the code BENTO.

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.

Mar

23

Photograph Sales Tutorial

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Beatrice Hamblett is a photographer who both sells her pictures and donates them to organisations such as museums. She needed to store detail about her photographs and also keep records about where they had been donated to or who they had been sold to. When she decides to make a photograph publicly available it is generally via a limited run of either ten or twenty five prints.

This tutorial explains the steps taken to develop a solution for Beatrice and it includes topics such as field definition, form design, and calculations.

The tutorial’s Disk Image contains a PDF document and a bentodb file which contains the completed solution. The steps necessary to use the bentodb file are included on the last page of the document.

Download the Photograph Sales Tutorial.

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