App For Mac With More Features Than Bento Box

FileMaker’s example libraries are somewhat limited, as is often the case, especially considering the many iPhone apps that offer better interfaces and more features than would be possible in a Bento library. Bento for iPhone helps you do all this and more: • Organize contacts and customers • Track projects and task lists • Plan events and meetings • Manage lists and much more TOP FEATURES: • Comes with 25 ready-to-use database templates that can be easily customized for whatever you need to organize.

Bento 4 for iPad is the redesigned, reinvented and revolutionary new version of the leading personal database app for iPad. Organize contacts, track projects, plan events, and manage lists – the fast and easy way! What's New in Version 4.0.0 Bento 4 for iPad has been reinvented from the ground up and includes numerous innovations that have never been seen in any iPad app before! - Powerful Drag and Drop Design Tools - Form view, Table view, Split view and Full Screen view - 40 New Themes - Direct Access to the Bento Template Exchange - Highlighted Searching - Multi-Field Sorting - Records Slider - Create Encrypted Fields, Simple Lists, GPS Location Fields, Calculation Fields - Email Library Data in .CSV format TOP 10 USES: - Organize contacts and clients - Track projects and deadlines - Plan special events and parties - Manage lists of to-do items - Manage lists of things and collections - Track products and inventory - Track billable hours and expenses - Organize music, movies and photos - Store passwords and login details - Sync with Bento (Mac) - optional TOP FEATURES: - Comes with 25 ready-to-use database templates that can be easily customized for whatever you need to organize, or download even more from the Bento Template Exchange – all for free. - Design your own personal iPad database app from scratch using powerful form design tools that are drag and drop easy. - Choose from a variety of beautiful themes to add coordinated colors, backgrounds, fonts and shading to make your information easier to view, search and edit. - Bring important information together on one screen so you can organize contacts, track projects, plan events and manage lists of just about anything in a single iPad app. - Organize virtually any type of information. Bento stores more than 20 different types of data, including text, numbers, dates, times, durations, ratings, addresses, images, GPS locations, encrypted data, voice memos, calculations, check boxes, choices, and more. - Add formulas and calculations with a few taps. See summary stats for each column, including counts, sums, averages, maximum values, and minimum value - without typing any formulas. - Get easy and accurate data entry using pop-up choice lists, check boxes, and more. - Scroll through your table with a simple swipe up, down or across, and sort with a tap. - Create collections that group information into subsets – just like Playlists in iTunes. - Use as a standalone app or synchronize with Bento 4.1 (Mac), sold separately at http://store.filemaker.com and the Mac App Store. If you’re already using Bento (Mac), download the free update to Bento 4.1 (Mac) at www.filemaker.com/support/downloads NOTES: - Bento 4 for iPad requires iOS 5. - Synchronization with Bento (Mac) desktop software requires Bento 4.1 (Mac), and a Wi-Fi wireless connection. - Data stored in Bento 1 for iPad is moved to Bento 4 for iPad. - iPad Contacts app data and/or Mac OS X Address Book data will be imported into a Bento Contacts library and disconnected from the source application. - Mac OS X iCal data will not be imported into Bento 4 for iPad. - Events and tasks from iCal are not accessible in Bento 4 for iPad. - Images from iPhoto are not accessible in Bento 4 for iPad library but are accessible via Bento Media fields. - Bento for iPad may not support large databases created in Bento (Mac) due to device memory limitations. Please see details at http://www.filemaker.com/bikb. - Bento for iPad runs in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Simplified Chinese and Japanese. - Bento is also available for the iPhone and Mac. Search on “Bento” to learn more. If you have any questions, please post a message to the Bento forum for quick answers, tips, and tricks at: http://forums.filemaker.com

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Bento 4, Filemaker’s personal database application for the Mac, is a perennial favorite because of how simple it is to use and how easy it is to sync data between your computer and your iOS devices. But there have been completely justifiable complaints about Bento—for such a consumer-focused application, it lacked some very obvious consumer-focused features. Namely, it was impossible to print labels with the application unless you resorted to a workaround using your Mac’s Address Book app. The other issue was that, while Bento allowed you to print your data, what your printed data looked like was a glorified print screen, not a professional form that you’d want to send to your customers or friends.

Bento 4 fixes that, offering you over 250 label templates and giving you the option to create your own label templates if the one you need isn’t available. In addition to labels, you can also export templates that contain data and Bento 4 has added a number of new field types that allow you to take advantage of location and audio information collected when you use Bento’s iOS apps. In short, Bento 4 rescues Bento from being a kind of cute but impractical boutique application, making it an excellent and inexpensive way to manage a variety of data.

Bento’s biggest shortcoming in earlier versions of the application was its inability to print labels. Odd, I know, given that Bento is geared toward home and small business users, probably the one crowd of users most likely to need a feature such as label printing. Now, Bento makes it impressively easy to print custom labels from any Bento collection, but in a way that is far different than you might expect. For example, if you want to print address labels for your holiday cards, you select your Holiday List library, then select File -> Print -> Labels. When Bento’s print dialog opens, you see a special label printing menu where you can select the label you want to use from a pre-defined list of standard labels or create your own from label measurements. Addresses are added using a single checkbox, but you can also add your own text, images, or other database fields.

While using a print dialog for label layouts may seem counterintuitive‚ most applications, including Filemaker’s flagship application‚ have you create a label document that you then merge your label data into. Bento, by using the print dialog, effectively eliminates your need to fiddle with merge fields, which pretty much takes the difficulty out of the whole process. Furthermore, using Bento’s Spotlight-like search field to select records and then choosing the print label option, you can quickly and easily create a filtered list of the contacts that you want to print labels for. For the smart search-minded, create a Finder-like Smart Collection, and you can easily filter out only the data you want to see and print on labels.

App for mac with more features than bento box

Beyond label printing, Bento adds several new features and enhancements that increase the application’s usability and make it something more than just a box to put your stuff in. The previous version of Bento introduced Simple Lists, which was a very basic table that you could add to any form and to which you could add text-based information. Now, Simple Lists support different data types, such as numbers, currency, or time, and can perform calculations and provide summaries for any field in the Simple List table. Bento has also introduced Location fields that you can use to capture and display location information. Bento for Mac is capable of capturing this information, but these fields become most useful when you’re using Bento for Mac in conjunction with an iOS device with a built-in GPS, such as an iPhone. Once captured, Bento can use that information and pinpoint it using Google Maps.

Bento 4 adds two new forms templates that, according to the company, offer enhanced printing capabilities. These forms, one called Etched and the other Classic, each offer a simple look and feel that limit the number of colors used when printing and, when printing, the Bento print dialog allows you to hide field labels and borders. But, while form print

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App For Mac With More Features Than Bento