Things to know about your workspace
- Jill Hohnstein (Unlicensed)
Saving
Genesis Foods is set up to save automatically, every time you make an edit. The “Saving” indicator will appear at the top of the page during each save, for the length of the saving mode.
How long the program is in saving mode will vary depending on a variety of factors, primarily these three:
Your computer’s processor speed
Server traffic
Your internet connection
We recommend not moving between pages during a save.
You can use Ctrl+ S to save manually.
Images
You can upload images for your Recipes and Ingredients by scrolling to the Images section. What you upload there will appear at the top of the page next to the file type, like so:
Images have to be 1 mb or less
Alerts
There are various alerts throughout the program that will indicate potential non-compliance with current labeling regulations. The two you will see most often are for allergens and mandatory label nutrients.
Allergen Alert
For allergens, each time you change the Formulation of your Recipe, you will get a pop-up Allergen Alert.
Clicking Review Alert will take you to the Allergen section. You can review the allergens and dismiss the alert from there.
Nutrient Alert
For nutrients, a yellow alert will appear next to Nutrients under Quick Links on your Ingredient when you are missing mandatory labeling nutrients.
Versioning
Genesis Foods allows you to have versions of a Recipe or Ingredient by using the Approval option, and not requiring you to Save As with a unique name for each version.
When you approve a Recipe or Ingredient, you can no longer edit that saved version at all. Instead, as soon as you make a change, the application automatically creates a draft version of that Recipe or Ingredient with the changes.
Example:
Create an Ingredient (“Steakbite Test”) with 10g of protein and approve it. You will see that it’s now Version V1:
If you then make a change — the supplier has updated the protein amount to 11g, say — an editable draft will automatically be created and you will see “Draft,” indicating that this is the currently editable version.
You can compare any two versions of that Ingredient.
The search will find all versions of that Ingredient and display the version numbers.
Note: Only the draft version is editable and only the latest approved version can be opened as a draft.
Labels
The Label workspace is substantially different from the Ingredient and Recipe workspaces. One example: Your Labels don’t have the option to add custom fields or tags. This is because all of the Labels you create will be dependent on a Recipe, which does have these features.
Navigation
Genesis Foods primarily uses the single-page, vertical layout for each main section - Ingredient, Recipe, Label, Option. This, with the help of Quick Links, has been shown to be the easiest, most user-friendly navigation method.
Left Navigation
This is where you access:
Dashboard - The main page of Genesis Foods, and where you can search all items
Ingredients - The Ingredient search/creation page
Recipes - The Recipe search/creation page
Labels - The Label search/creation page
User settings - Options and Profile
Logout
Right Navigation
When you have Options, Ingredient or Recipe open, the right navigation displays the quick links that scroll you to the individual sections.