About Libraries
Bento stores information in libraries. Libraries are composed of records, and libraries are defined by the fields in the records.
For example, the default Projects library records are composed of fields that are useful for managing projects, such as fields for the project status, start and end dates, and team member information.
Bento provides several ways for you to view the records of a library:
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Form view shows fields from a single record. Each page shows one record at a time, for example, a single contact record in the Address Book library. You can have more than one form view for the library. See Chapter 5, “Using Form View” on page 57.
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Table view shows the records in a table, for example, a list of the contacts in the Address Book library. Each row in the table represents a single record in the library. See Chapter 6, “Using Table View” on page 69.
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Grid view displays at a glance the media fields and form thumbnails of a selected library or collection. See Chapter 7, “Using Grid View” on page 79.
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Split view shows a record in form view and table view or grid view at the same time.
The remainder of this chapter describes how to create, use, and share libraries:
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You can create your own libraries by using library templates. See the following section, ”Creating a Library Using the Bento Templates” on page 34.
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You can create a library by importing your own data. See ”Importing Information into Bento” on page 116.
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You can share your libraries with up to five other Bento users on your local network. See ”Sharing Your Bento Database” on page 37.
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