With Bento 4 for iPad being a much more serious database app than the previous version, it comes closer to the functionality of the fully fledged FileMaker, but you can't share it with a workgroup. Also, you can grab images from the picture library on the device. With Capture Media, you can employ your iPad's camera directly to snap a picture - imagine this for a book or CD database.
#FILEMAKER BENTO 4 HOW TO#
A lot of attention has been paid to how to customise and modify - considering you only have your fingertips to work with, this is important. It's a completely self-contained database application. Data can be encrypted, it supports location tracking and spreadsheet-like lists can be set up inside fields. A new Calculations field uses a built in maths engine, echoing that of FileMaker, and allows number-crunching inside the field. New features include sorting in multiple fields in table view, highlighted search results, send and share data via email, and there's a new Records slider that shows what's in the record.
![filemaker bento 4 filemaker bento 4](https://a-static.mlcdn.com.br/210x210/filemaker-pro-17-advanced/softwarestore/hlz92zm-a/275f30a62c94061ff29f789f9d889bd7.jpg)
People used to joke that it was hard to make something attractive with FileMaker (certainly no longer the case with FileMaker 12) but the converse was true of Bento: you had to struggle to make something ugly. Within Bento there are also 40 themes, combining typefaces matched to colour schemes and styles, so in no time at all your template can look the way you want. There is access from inside Bento 4 for iPad to the template exchange, and selected templates download straight into Bento. These were only available to Bento for the Mac. This now has over 1000 templates and has resulted in over a million downloads. But if your needs aren't covered or you want something more specific, head over to the template file exchange.įor Bento lets users build templates specific to tasks - business, education, collections - and upload them to FileMaker's Template Exchange. You can also start from scratch if you insist, from the Blank template - but the 25 included templates are starting points for most tasks that you can customise to your heart's content, I noticed the Recipes template on iPad actually comes with a few usable recipes. FileMaker Go and Bento are the two top-selling databases on the Apple App Store. So that's what FileMaker has done.īento is a personal database, whereas FileMaker is for professionals, institutions and business.
#FILEMAKER BENTO 4 FULL VERSION#
Sydney-based FileMaker Systems Engineer David Head told me people wanted Bento on iPad to be more like the full version of Bento for Mac, making it handy as a completely useful, standalone app. Compared to fileMaker, Bento is 'fun' - very graphic to look at and intuitive to use, and aimed at the small business, collector and home user.
![filemaker bento 4 filemaker bento 4](https://ohitorisamalife.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/e382b9e382afe383aae383bce383b3e382b7e383a7e38383e38388-2014-11-07-21-52-30.jpg)
While FileMaker is a fully Apple-owned subsidiary with its namesake software in both Mac and PC forms, Bento is FileMaker's Apple-only database - you can only get it for Macs and iDevices.
![filemaker bento 4 filemaker bento 4](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/e0A-MW13H8Q/hqdefault.jpg)
Now we know why - a rewritten iPad version is available from June 20, also called 'Bento 4'.
#FILEMAKER BENTO 4 FOR MAC#
FileMaker's engineers always seem to be busy, having recently released a new version of Bento for Mac (it's up to 4.1).