My Bento woes..

[John Morgan]

Hello. I purchased TAP FORMS ORGANIZER 5. I recently updated to (mini) Mac (Mojave). This kind of forces me to update certain things as they either are very slow, and I fear they will be unusable shortly. I am overwhelmed with all the stuff Organizer5 offers, but my main reason is I read that it could transfer my two databases from Bento (4.1.2). When it comes to computers, I must admit I hover around the idiot level.
My two databases on Bento is one for my video (movies) database and one for my SACD discs.

For the movie database, I have 5113 records.
I have 5 categories: TITLE, FORMAT, INFORMATION, COMPOSER, and GENRE.
I also have included 2 screen shots of my partial movie list. One is a general list of everything that I can browse easily, the other is another format that is per title, which is easier to read and I use to add and/or subtract from the master database.

I am hoping someone could give me a step by step list of the process….from what I need to extract from the BENTO program to putting that information in a Organizer 5 database. The Organizer 5 is so complex, I don’t know where to start. I can’t even find where the choice is for Bento.
Much thanks,
John

PS I was able to export my Bento databases (2 of them) to my desk, where they are ID as John’s Video Library.bentoTemplate

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[Brendan]

Hi John,

Thanks for purchasing Tap Forms 5!

Now that you have your 2 .bentoTemplate files on your desktop, create a new document in Tap Forms using the New Document command. Then click the File menu and select Import. Then select Bento Template from the Import sub-menu. You’ll be asked to find a Bento Template file.

Find your .bentoTemplate file and select it to import.

Tap Forms will import all the records into your document.

For more information, see the Bento Import topic in the online user manual here:

https://www.tapforms.com/help-mac/5.3/en/topic/bento-template-importer

Hope that helps!

Brendan

[John Morgan]

Thank you Brendan. Not only did it work, but it was so easy and everything seems to be there. Since I have my 2 Bento databases now safely in Tap Forms, I will explore my options for further refinements. It already is easier to read than Bento was. Again, thanks so much for taking the time and patience seeing me through this possible. Now, it seems like an idiot could have done it, so I must be one rung lower on the ladder. Lots of stuff I am sure I will discover in this great program. I think I am using about 1/1000 of things Tap Forms can do.

[Brendan]

Hi John,

I’m glad that you got your data moved over to Tap Forms 5 now!

Thanks again for purchasing Tap Forms!

Brendan

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