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nunzio04,

You've brought up a frustrating shortcoming of the current system. Whenever you change or update an ingredient, currently it will cause the order in the list for that ingredient to change. It's an annoying side effect.

We plan on providing a convenient way to re-order the ingredient list in an upcoming new release, but in the meantime, we've just added a new column in the ingredients list that will allow you to re-order ingredients.

It's a tad clunky, but we really do need to provide a way to re-order the list before we're ready with the next update release, so hopefully this will help.

Notice the new 'item#' column. Let's say you want to flip item# 4, "coarse salt" with the  last ingredient 'fresh ground black pepper'. You would change the item# for 'coarse salt' to 7 and the item# for 'fresh ground black pepper' to 4 as follows:

Then save the recipe to save your changes to the ingredient list order.

Try it out and reply back here if if works OK for you.

I have a recipe with 2 section headings and there are repeated  ingrediants in each section. Ex. Extra-virgin olive oil. When I used the ingrediant again, it gave me the error message and I had to shorten to EVOO for it to take.

Again, I lost a line in the edit and need to reinsert an ingrediant in the proper section.

Thanks.

Sounds great, thanks!

Hi Bob,
I'd be happy to work with you on the new features. I'm not the expert in the family, I'm just the one organizing the project. However, I've been learning the program features as I enter recipes and also working with another family member on the photo issues. Right now we have a great photo collage for the cover page, and probably a similar collage for the back cover. We'd also consider making full page photos or additional collages for divider/section pages. Of course, more than one photo per recipe page would be ideal.
Just let me know what I can do, and if it's beyond my ability, I'll get my much-younger-helper to explain it to me!
Thanks for the opportunity.
Antonia

PS
I'm happy to send a copy of the collage so that you can see what we're up to.

OK, we went ahead and put a PDF translation for the characters you're having trouble with (Unicode/U+2000 general punctuation - single, forward, backward quotes, and a dash character). Don't mean to burden you with the technical gibberish, just keeping some notes here. Should work OK for you now.

While you may not have any special language settings on your MAC, it's possible that you may have a different language setting in your browser (Safari ?). But no worries, we'd rather try and catch these things than have users try to figure out at their end.

Thanks for bringing to our attention.

Bob
familyrecipecentral

Hi Antonia,

Great question.  We have some limitations with the current recipe book at the moment, but we're right in the middle of a significant upgrade that I think will be what you're looking for.  Bottom line, we'll help you get your recipe book figured out.

Currently, the system lets you add photos as you know to the recipe (one per recipe) and to the recipe book (book photo). The recipe book photo is placed on the inside title page, but formating and placement of the photo needs adjustment. You can also attach image files to the recipes and the recipe book itself and and insert these into the body text fields but you need to know how to do a little bit of HTML (this is currently how you would attach more than one photo to a recipe). This is done with a combination of the "file upload" at the bottom of the form and some HTML to place the image file in the body text.

And we don't currently have front and back cover pages.

However the upgrade to the system that I mentioned will include:

* Full GUI editor so you can easily insert and upload images into any text box where you can currently enter text, plus lot's of other great formating just like a word processor.

* Reorganization of the recipe book that will include front cover, back cover, title page, chapters, and chapters can contain pages and recipes. And you'll have the ability to insert and upload mulitple images on any of these recipe book components wherever there are text entry boxes with the GUI editor. So I think this is what you're looking for. It will be very flexible.

We're not quite ready with this new release, so let me ask you what your time frame is to publish your recipe book? If you're in a big hurry, we can turn some of these new features on for you, but you would need to work with us while we finish and test the upgrade. We'd actually like to have a few more folks to help us test, so let me know if you're interested?

Otherwise, if you want to wait for the release to come out (we're shooting for the first of the year), all of the recipes that you're putting in right now will be fine and carry forward.

Let me know whether you'd like to work with the new features while we finish the release (and help us test), or whether you'd prefer to wait for the release to come out, most likely in January?

Bob
familyrecipecentral

Now fixed in the recipe book as well. Thanks for the heads up!

familyrecipecentral

Yes, we've added this capability to create headings in the recipe ingredient section, since this comes up quite often, for example a pie recipe may have a set of ingredients for the "Crust" and a set of ingredients for the "Filling".

To set an ingredient line as a "Heading", select "Label" from the "Units" drop-down. The heading text that you put in the "Ingredient Name" field will be converted to Title Case (first letter of each word upper case), and will be displayed in bold. See following example for the Fish n Chips recipe you referred to. "Chips" is the first heading, and "Fish" is the second heading a little further down.

We'll be providing more (and better) documentation and tutorials as we move forward. Thanks for the great question, we know our members at Family Recipe Central will want to know about this.

familychef,

Thank you for the bringing this to our attention. We've made an adjustment to the right margin for the 4x6 and 5x8 recipe index cards when a recipe image is present.

Give it a try - see if that fixes your problem?

familyrecipecentral

This is a wonderful recipe! i hope you don't mind me adding this to my family cookbook i am making one for christmas and this is going to be a great addition! Thank you!

I just thought you would like to know. i am making a family cookbook and i am loving it. it is going to be such a nice Christmas present. well the program that i use to make my family cookbook is Cook'n it is really neat! anyway just thought i would share the idea!
thanks!

It's looking even better this time around.