RME: Digital Recipe Cards Overview

Overview

The Digital Recipe Cards functionality is a web application that allows the user to search and view recipe data from an existing Recipe & Menu Engineering (formerly known as StarChef.NET) database. 
 

Requirements

• The following browsers and devices have been tested with Digital Recipe Cards in RME:

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and above

  • Mozilla Firefox 6.0.2

  • Google Chrome 13.0.782.220

  • Apple Safari 5.1

  • Apple iPhone

  • Apple iPad

• JavaScript must be enabled for all platforms.

• Digital Recipe Cards in RME requires a StarChef.NET database with system users able to manage ingredient and recipes entries

Global Database Setting
 

• The functionality is configured from the Global Database Settings section of StarChef.NET

Recipe Ratings

• There are three options for Recipe User Ratings in the Digital Recipe Cards functionality, which are configured from Global Database Settings:

  • Blank (None): This will not enable any User Ratings functionality

  • User Only: This will only allow the user to view and set individual ratings for each recipe

  • User and Average: This extends User Ratings so that an average rating value is displayed for recipes

• User Rating Summary - This report displays a table of recipes showing the number of ratings submitted and the average recipe rating value for each recipe. This report is designed so that StarChef.NET users can export and analyse recipe rating information

Groups and User Groups
 

• A StarChef.NET group must be created, which is linked to the required recipe and ingredient sets. A logo image file must be uploaded for each group in the following value Settings > Group Logo

• The group logo will not be resized by the Recipe & Menu Engineering solution, so it must have appropriate dimensions for displaying on the Digital Recipe Cards search page. It is recommended that the group logo does not exceed 450px (W) and 90px (H)

• User groups must be linked to the appropriate Digital Recipe Cards group, ensuring that the user group setting Details > User group type has a value of ‘StarChef Lite’. Once the user group type of ‘StarChef Lite’ has been set then only the following permissions will be available for the user group.

Users

• Users who need access to the Light version of Recipe and Menus should be added to a 'Light' type User Group, e.g. RME Recipe Viewer. It is possible for a user to belong to User Groups of type ‘Standard’ and ‘Recipe and Menus Lite’. StarChef.NET will use the default user group value for the user to determine which application to automatically direct the user to when they login.

• If the Light User Group is an additional User Group, the user will be directed to the Light view if they change to this User Group on the Home page. This is a one-way trip; once in Recipe and Menus Light, the user must return to the Recipe and Menus solution and re-login in order to log back into the core solution.

• For Recipe and Menus Light deployments where Recipe creation details are to be displayed, then the following details for each user who creates Recipes in this version of Recipe and Menus should be populated:
   

Recipe Nutrition and Intolerance Data
 

• Should Nutritional Information be required for the Digital Recipe Cards / Recipe & Menus Light deployment (configured using User Group permissions), then Nutrition and Intolerance values should be set for all Recipes

• Both the 'Light' and core Recipe and Menus solutions use the same list of Nutrition and Intolerance values. Nutritional data values can be hidden or renamed as required. By default, the list of intolerance items is very long, and so it is recommended that items which are not going to be populated should be hidden on the database. In order for the advanced recipe search filters to work the following intolerance values are required:

  • Contains Milk or Milk Products

  • Contains Fish or Fish Products

  • Contains Crustaceans or Shellfish

  • Contains Nuts or Nut Trace

  • Contains Nuts or Nut Trace > Peanuts

  • Contains Soya
  • Suitable for Vegetarians

Please Note​: Changing resource strings or visibility of Nutritional and Intolerance items will require chargeable development work.

Recipes

• The following guidelines should be followed in order to optimise the Digital Recipe Cards user experience. Recipes should be reviewed before deployment to ensure that the values below are populated: