2.4. Setting Up Ingredient Specification

A template must first be created to set up the ingredients section. The Ingredient Specification includes captures product detail at an ingredient level.

Step 1: Select Quality Management tab and select Specification Manager. Select the Template Manager tab, click on the Options button beside the template you want to edit the settings of and select Template Settings.

Step 2: Set the Mixing Bowl Active option to Yes or Yes – Conditional. Yes – Conditional, determines whether the mixing bowl options display dependant on the selected field.

Step 3: A new section on the right-hand side called Mixing Bowl Settings will display and clicking into it will give you a list of options for displaying/including certain functions.

Step 4: Use the dropdown fields to select the relevant options for your template, if you are using scoring within your template, you can also set the scoring options on this page. Click on Save Settings to apply your changes to the template.

Percentages or Weights

In the Mixing Bowl settings of the Template Settings, you can choose whether you would prefer the components in your recipe to be measured by weight or percentage. Then you can also choose whether to display mixing bowl % and/or finished product % and whether to use g, Kg. ml or L.