Program Options allows you to manage (create, edit, delete) various aspects of the Genesis Foods application in one place.
Options are divided into two sections: Program Settings and User Settings.
Program Settings are settings that can be adjusted and will impact every user that uses the application. If User One adds a new Product, User 2 will see that Product.
User Settings are settings that can be adjusted and will only be visible to that user. If User 1 makes a change, User 2 will not see that change in the application.
All options that are displayed in a scrollable list can be filtered by typing a full or partial name in the corresponding “Filter…” text box.
Tags, Products, Suppliers, and Custom Fields are created by typing in a unique name in the corresponding text box and clicking the Save button.
See the Custom Nutrient entry for the specifics on creating a Custom Nutrient.
Program Options
Tags
Tags are used to organize your Ingredients and Recipes and help to refine and filter searches. Place a “Dessert” tag on all Recipes that are considered Desserts. Place a “Spice” Tag on all Ingredients used to spice up a formulation. Search later by the “Dessert” tag and see all your dessert Recipes appear as results, or “Spices” to see all the Ingredients you can use as spices.
Custom Nutrients
Genesis Foods tracks 155+ nutrients, but there might be something obscure out there that we don’t track but you do. If that’s the case, you can create a Custom Nutrient that will appear for every Ingredient and Recipe where you can track that value that we don’t track.
To create a Custom Nutrient, enter the full name of the Nutrient in the “Add Nutrient” text box, then enter an abbreviated form of that name in the “Abbreviation” text box, then select a Unit (g, mg, kg, etc.) from the Measure combo box.
The full name will be used in all Nutrient grids, the Abbreviation will be used in the UI where space is at a premium or on some reports.
Product and Suppliers
Genesis Foods comes with a list of Products and Suppliers that you can choose to associate with an Ingredient or Recipe. You can filter the list of Products or Suppliers by typing in the Filter Products search box and you can show only the Products or Suppliers you have added by checking the “My Products Only” or “My Suppliers Only” checkboxes.
Custom fields
Genesis Foods gives users the ability to add as many uniquely named Custom Fields as they would like. This allows users to make sure that any field they add to the application accurately reflects the data in that field. Create a field called Line Number to track which production line the Recipe is created on, or a field called Facility ID to track where the Recipe was formulated.
User Options
Nutrients to view
By default, Genesis Foods will display all 155+ Nutrients we track in the program in each Nutrient table. We have preconfigured a series of Nutrients to view lists that will change the Nutrients displayed in those tables, such as “Label - US 2016 All” that would show all Nutrient that are displayed on a US 2016 label.
Users can also create, edit, and delete their own custom Nutrients to view lists so they can see only the Nutrients they are interested in seeing. The Nutrients to view lists that one user creates cannot be seen by another user in the same Organization.
Decimal places
By default, Genesis Foods shows each Nutrient value rounded to two decimal places. If a user would like to see a different number of decimal places, they can specify the number of decimal places they’d like visible here.
New ingredient tags, new recipe tags, and new label tags
Tags can always be added and removed from an Ingredient, Recipe, or Label in their respective workspaces. However, if there is a specific Tag or Tags a user would like to be automatically added to a newly created Ingredient, Recipe, or Label those Tags can be specified here.
