7. Expanding the Inventory Library with Related Data Fields and Collections

This chapter will show you how to use relationships and collections to organize your Bento data.

Exploring the Inventory Library

Just as the Exercise Log was used in the last chapter to demonstrate the use of various Bento fields, the Inventory library is used in this chapter to explore concepts of related records and collections. Inventory is one of the built-in Bento libraries. In its basic state, it lets you keep track of inventory items. You can see the basic library in Figure 7.1. Note that the picture and notes fields have been slightly reduced in size for the figure.

Figure 7.1. Explore the Inventory library.

Using the Inventory library, you can enter names, ...

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