About Smart Collections

Create a Smart Collection when you want a collection that contains records that meet criteria you define. Smart Collections show all the records that meet the criteria.

For example, you could create a Smart Collection of contacts who live in the same city. When you add a new contact record for a person who lives in that city, Bento automatically adds that contact record to your Smart Collection.

Or you could create a Smart Collection of event records that are due in the same week. If you add or modify a record so that it meets the criteria, that record appears in the Smart Collection the next time you click the Smart Collection in the Libraries pane.

Because a Smart Collection is a set of records that match defined criteria, it is different from a collection in the following ways:

•	You cannot manually add records to or remove records from Smart Collections. To remove certain records from the Smart Collection, edit the criteria or modify the records’ values so that they no longer meet the criteria.

•	You can create Smart Collections in the Address Book library, but Smart Collections do not appear in the Address Book application.

•	You can create Smart Collections in the iCal Events and iCal Tasks libraries, but Smart Collections do not appear in the iCal application.

•	You cannot import records into a Smart Collection.

Note  Bento comes with five Smart Collections, so you can get started right away: Today and Upcoming events; and Due Today, Overdue, and Upcoming tasks.

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