Update FileMaker Bento for Mac, IPhone, IPad-PCWorld

A little more than three years ago, FileMaker has started offering personal database program for users, extensive features, FileMaker For Mac. Flash forward to 2011, Bento is not only became the mainstay of the program for individual users on the Mac, but it is also available in versions for all the Apple device iOS.

In the center of its overhauled the FileMaker Bento report, rolling from the version 4 personal database for Mac when you update the iPhone and iPad versions. New features in Bento 4 dealt with everything from new ways to share data stored in the application on increasing the performance improvements. Mobile Edition to pick up some new possibilities for their own, including automatic location fields, function memo, integrated voice and support for iCal synchronization tasks.

Many of the changes in what are FileMaker Bento 4 Vice President of marketing and services, Ryan Rosenberg described as "customers." When you update the Bento Rosenberg said, Macworld, FileMaker "on things, which in many respects from the first versions were on the list."

What's new in Bento 4

He was one of the top requested features the ability to print labels from Bento. And it just does not mean creating mailing labels from records of contacts stored in Bento, according to Rosenberg. The label, print options, scientists used to print labels for the samples, businesses using the function for the monitoring of stocks and the organizers of the action, you can print the name of the tag of the Bento.

Bento 4, offers more than 250 file formats ready for use for Avery and Dymo. Users can create their own labels, so the font and style of editing rights in the print dialog box. Users can also customize the labels field and images stored in Bento.

In addition to adding print labels Bento 4 also promises enhanced form printing. This update adds two print motifs, which Rosenberg says, "the forms look the way you want." And what's more the new version expands the options for printing the forms users to print without the boundaries of fields and field labels, among other improvements.

Multiuser sharing Highlighted changes in Bento 3 in 2009, and the new version continues the trend from facilitates the sharing of database with other users. Bento 4 users can export library filled with data, and e-mail them to the other--"Makes the library as simple as sending a file," said Rosenberg.

Further improved sharing capacity includes the Exchange template Bento company, online resources, where users can change the proposed database forms. FileMaker says online Exchange has grown to more than 800 free download template from its debut in 2009. And this information should continue to grow with Bento 4, which provides an effective option for storing the template on the Bento template Exchange.

Extends the functionality of a simple list of FileMaker introduced Bento in the last major update. This addition allows users to create free-form of the table in their databases. Version 4 allows you to more simple list as a table, the ability to insert numbers, ranges of data and calculations in the fields. The effect is like FileMaker, miniature table in the database.

Bento 4 introduces a number of other features, which are aimed at easier to use a database program. Now you can lock the form to prevent inadvertent changes to fields or even the layout of the database. The new version also introduces a number of automatic creation of instruments, including the one for adding fields to the media. Now you can switch from tables in a form with a simple double click and it's easier to search by date in the new version – a welcome complement to the user, who became a Bento of administrator tasks list.

Updates to mobile applications

The desktop version is not the only product FileMaker Bento is reset in the middle. IPhone and iPad versions of Bento received an update on Wednesday. 1.1 Version for both the mobile applications database and several functions with Bento 4.

All three iterations of the Bento offers automatic location of the field, in which the place of the application at any time you add captured or change the record. Instead, you can also set manually, drag the pin on the map in the Bento. FileMaker touts the feature auto-tagging location as an ideal for users who want to log the travel sites, inspection and other data specific to the location.

The mobile version of Bento now includes a built-in Recorder for voice notes, which can be stored in the media Bento record. Those voice notes synchronization back to the Mac version of Bento, which supports playback.

The desktop version Bento would no longer work with the data in iCal task. FileMaker to extend this ability to its mobile applications to Wednesday 1 1 updates, as Bento for Mac, you can now sync iCal tasks with the version of the iPhone and iPad. "We are the best way to get the iCal tasks on iPhone and iPad," said Rosenberg.

The mobile version of Bento add a few more functions, including multitasking, and high-resolution graphics for a device equipped with a retinal scan Display. Mobile applications have the ability to edit data in a simple list and iPhone version gets the ability to create and edit lists of related records.

How to get it

Bento 4 you can buy directly from FileMaker; the database application is also available from the Mac App Store. The new version costs $ 49, the Family Pack of five licenses for $ 99. If you are using an older version of Bento, you are entitled to a discount of $ 20 when you upgrade.

Mac software run on Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later, including Snow Leopard.

The new version of Bento for iPhone and Bento for iPad are free upgrades to existing users. Both mobile applications worth $ 5 and can be downloaded from the App Store.

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