Re: Bento and iPhone Bento

On 2009-09-26 13:48:48 +0100, Dave <Dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Is anyone here using Bento, and syncing with their iPhone?

Yep.

I downloaded a trial version of the desktop Bento yesterday to begin to
explore it.
I've been using an old version of Filemaker for years (FM 7) but cannot
really justify upgrading to the current version. I started to use it
ages ago and then carried on since we used it at work. It is way beyond
my current, non-working, retired person's needs.

Bento looks the beesknees for my purpose, especially if I can sync
things like my db of books to my iPhone, but I have a couple of
reservations!

That sort of database - a flat file - is perfect for Bento. Personally my books are all in Delicious Library instead, but since Amazon forced the Delicious Library iPhone app off the app store Bento's a good choice.

The first is that, obsessively, I not only catalogue my books but
allocate them pressmarks and print them out onto sticky labels. Easy
with FM. Can this be done with Bento - the pdf manual only talks about
address labels being printed out via the standard Address Book.

Printing literally dumps out whatever form or table view you're looking at. Pretty limited.

If Bento cannot handle printing onto address labels, the obvious
question is what kind of workaround exists, apart from manually cutting
and pasting each one into a template in a graphics package.

Maybe, or exporting to CSV and then importing that into something.

The other question is about the syncing to my iPhone. Is this really
easy? I have to admit that I don't understand the FM mutterings about
wifi. We do have a wifi connection at home, not airport, primarily to
connect Val's PC to the system - all the others are ethernet.

Yes, it is dead easy. I think Filemaker's mention of WiFi is really saying you can't do it over 3G, Bluetooth, or the USB dock connector.

The FM description of iPhone Bento talks about passcodes which I don't
understand!

That is just a randomly generated passcode you enter the first time you sync, so that you don't try syncing with another copy of Bento for example.

Syncing is very quick, but there's one problem - if you change the same record on the iPhone and the Mac and then sync, you wind up with two records.

--
Chris

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