March 20th 2024, Release Note: RME | Recipe CO2 Report, API Refinements, Batch Recipe Descriptor, Workflow Reports Extended

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Release date for all features: March 20th 2024

Recipe CO2 Report

• Enabled by default? - No
• Set up by customer admin? - No
• Enable via support ticket? - Yes
• Affects configuration or data? - No

What's Changing?

A new report that shows recipe CO2 values per serving.

Reason for the Change

To increase reporting capability for recipe CO2 values.

Customers Affected

Optional. Available to all customers.

Release Note Info/Steps

The new report can be enabled by request. Please submit a request with Fourth's Support team.

Report name: 'Recipe CO2 per serving'

Description: This recipe report displays a list of recipes and the recipe CO2 value 'per serving'. 

Information on report:

Recipe Product Key
Recipe Name
Recipe Menu Description
Recipe Description
KG CO2e Per Serving

Report parameters: Download by selected menu or selected recipes

Output format: Excel

Fig.1 - 'Recipe CO2 per serving' report

Additional Resources

January 11th 2023, Release Note: RME | Recipe CO2 Calculation, GET/recipeCO2, Supplier Order UoM, Nutrition Report, Alternate Ingredient Values Display

11th January 2023, Release Note: RME | Quick Guide to CO2-Related APIs

March 22nd 2023, Release Note: RME | Recipe CO2: Alternate Ingredients, Webhook for CO2-Related Changes, API Changes

API Refinements

• Enabled by default? - Yes
• Set up by customer admin? - No
• Enable via support ticket? - No
• Affects configuration or data? - No

What's Changing?

Additional error messaging has been added for two POST requests:  POST / ingredientintolerance and POST / ingredientnutrition.

Reason for the Change

To provide better feedback when an invalid record is included in the payload. For the two requests mentioned above, this error messaging applies when an alternate ingredient is included in the payload.

Customers Affected

All customers using the abovementioned requests and those who include alternate ingredients in their request(s).

Release Note Info/Steps

If an alternate ingredient is included in the payload for POST / ingredientintolerance and POST / ingredientnutrition, an error message will be generated in the exception report to indicate that alternate ingredients are not valid for these payloads. Only 'parent ingredients' can have intolerance and nutrition values assigned.

Additional Resources

For more detailed integration information, please go to developer.fourth.com.

Allow Descriptor Value to be Changed / Blank for Batch Recipe Portion Size and Alternative Issuing Units

• Enabled by default? - Yes
• Set up by customer admin? - No
• Enable via support ticket? - No
• Affects configuration or data? - No

What's Changing?

The 'Descriptor' value for batch recipe - portion size and alternative issuing units - can be changed from the current value, including to 'blank'.

Reason for the Change

To increase ease of use.

Customers Affected

All customers using batch recipes and alternative issuing units.

Release Note Info/Steps

The 'batch recipe, portion size descriptor' can now be changed to a different value from its current one, including to a 'blank' value. Before this change, if an RME batch recipe portion size had its 'descriptor' value populated this value could not be changed. 

For alternative issuing units, 'descriptor' is now an optional value.  Previously it was a mandatory value.

There are no steps required to access this change.  

Fig.2  - Batch recipe - Portion Size and Alternative Issuing Units - Descriptor fields

Workflow Reports Extended with Addition of 'Modified' Information

• Enabled by default? - Yes
• Set up by customer admin? - No
• Enable via support ticket? - No
• Affects configuration or data? - No
• Roles affected: - if applicable

What's Changing?

Additional detail has been added to the Workflow reports for Ingredients and Recipes.

Reason for the Change

Ease of use when reviewing changes to multiple records.

Customers Affected

All customers using the Workflow reports.

Release Note Info/Steps

For ingredients and recipes, the additional detail of 'modified' (currently visible in the 'audit history pop-up') has been added to the Workflow reports.  

If the Workflow reports are not already enabled for your organisation, they can be enabled by raising a request to Fourth's support team.

Fig. 3 - 'Modified' information in the recipe audit history pop-up

Fig. 4 - 'Modified' information in the recipe audit history pop-up

Please note that for records with no 'modified' information in their audit history, e.g. 'Menus', the column will be blank on the report.