June 2007
All About Using Recipe Categories
Recipes are assigned to categories to help you quickly find related recipes. You can change a recipe’s category assignments at any time. You can also control many other aspects of category management. Here is a comprehensive list of all the power you have at your fingertips with NYC. These features are listed here in order of difficulty - from easiest to most complicated (the order in which you should practice and master them):
View a List of
Recipes Showing Each Recipe’s Category Assignments
1. Select View… Recipe List With Categories.
In your editor window, this will display a list of the recipes in your open cookbook, with each recipe’s categories to the right of the recipe name.
View a List of
Categories Showing All Recipes Assigned to Each
1. Select View… Category List With Recipes.
In your editor window, this will display a list of the categories in your open cookbook, with the recipes assigned to each category listed underneath the category name.
List Recipes Assigned
to a Specific Category (or Categories)
1. Open the recipe selection window (Recipes… Recipes…. or the “R” toolbar button).
2. Select a category.
This will list all recipes in your cookbook that have been assigned to that category.
List Recipes Assigned
to All of Selected Categories
A recipe can be assigned to more than one category. To find recipes assigned to multiple categories, multi-select categories (using Cntl-Click) in the recipe selection window as follows.
1. Open the recipe selection window (Recipes… Recipes…. or the “R” toolbar button).
2. Select a category.
3. Hold down the Ctrl button and select another category.
4. Repeat Step 3. for other categories as desired.
This will list recipes in your cookbook that have been assigned to all of the selected categories. For example, assume that Recipe1 is assigned to “seafood” and Recipe2 is assigned to “seafood” and “fish”. If you multi-select “seafood” and “fish”, Recipe2 will be listed. If you select “seafood”, Recipe1 and Recipe2 will be listed. If you select “fish”, Recipe2 will be listed.
List Categories With Assigned Recipes
This is a printing option:.
1. Select File… Print… “categories” and check the “print to file” box.
2. Press Print, and “Yes” to the prompt to include recipe names in the list.
3. Provide a filename for the print to file.
4. Answer “Yes” to the prompt to open the file in your editor.
Find All Recipes in a
Category Across Cookbooks
This is a search operation:
1. Open the recipe selection window (Recipes… Recipes… or the “R” toolbar button).
2. Click a category and press the Search button.
3. In the search keywords window, select “across cookbooks”, leave the keywords textbox blank (this finds all recipes), and press Search.
This will display all recipes across cookbooks that have been assigned to the category you had selected when you started the search. The search will be across cookbooks in the same folder with your open cookbook. Multi-select categories if you want to limit the search across cookbooks to only those recipes assigned to ALL the categories you select.
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Uncategorize All Recipes in a Cookbook
This operation will uncategorize all recipes in a cookbook:
1. Select Recipes… Categorize Multiple Recipes…
1. Press the Unassign All… button.
2. Select “all recipes in cookbook” (or “all tagged recipes in cookbook”) in the popup window.
3. Press the OK button to uncategorize the recipes.
In Step 3, you can uncategorize only tagged recipes if you have previous tagged certain recipes and you select “all tagged recipes in cookbook” in the popup window.
Categorize Recipes One at a Time
Categorize Recipes
from the Recipe Selection Window
1. Select a recipe and press the Categorize toolbar button. Click categories for the selected recipe. Press Save in the category window.
Categorize Recipes
from the Recipe Edit Window
1. Open a recipe and press the Categories tab. Click categories for the selected recipe and Save the recipe.
Categorize Multiple
Recipes At Once
Assign Multiple
Recipes to Categories
1. Select Recipes… Categorize Multiple Recipes…
2. Select recipe(s) in the right hand listbox. Click a category in the far left listbox.
3. Press the < button to assign selected recipes to the selected category.
Automatically Categorize Recipes (see next section)
Uncategorize Multiple
Recipes At Once
This operation will uncategorize multiple selected recipes from a specific category.
1. Select Recipes… Categorize Multiple Recipes…
1. Click a category in the far left listbox. Recipes assigned to this category will be listed.
2. Multi-select categorized recipes and press the Unassign From Category button.
Automatically Categorize Recipes
This operation will au
1. Select Recipes… Categorize Multiple Recipes… (or press the small toolbar button with the chef hat and A on it).
2. Press the Go button in the Auto-Assign frame.
Recipes are categorized according to your keyword
specifications, so you can cus
Reset a Cookbook’s Categories to the Default Categories
1. Select Recipes… Cookbook Categories…
2. Press the Defaults… button.
You will need to categorize recipes in your cookbook after this operation.
Add or Delete Categories in a Cookbook
Each cookbook has can have up to 500 unique categories, and the categories can vary from one cookbook to the next. To modify the list of categories for a cookbook:
1. Select Recipes… Cookbook Categories…
2. Add or Delete categories using this window.
Deleting categories will not delete recipes assigned to those categories. It will just remove that category assignment for recipes assigned to a deleted category.
Find and Delete Empty Categories
To find and delete empty categories:
1. Select Recipes… Cookbook Categories…
2. Press the Find Empty… button.
3. In the list of empty categories, select those you wish to delete, or press Select All to select them all.
4. Press Delete button on the empty categories window.
5. Press Save on the edit category window.
Merge Categories (Map One Category’s Recipes to Another Category)
Sometime you want to reassign all recipes from one or more categories to another category. For example, after a big import you end up with three similar categories: “fish”, “shellfish”, “seafood”. You want to reassign all recipes in the “fish” and “shellfish” categories to the “seafood” category so you can eliminate the “fish” and “shellfish” categories.
To categorize all recipes in one or more categories into another category:
1. Select Recipes… Cookbook Categories…
2. Select the “fish” and “shellfish” categories and press the Map To… button.
3. In the Map To window, select the “seafood” category and press Map… button.
This procedure will not unassign any recipes from any
categories – it simply additionally assigns all recipes in the
“from” category or categories to the “to”
category. You can delete the categories
from which the mapping was done if you wish.
Deleting a category does not delete recipes in that category –
deleting a category simply unassigns recipes from that category. All other category assignments remain for the
affected recipes.
Change the Default Categories Used For New Cookbooks
New cookbooks are started with a default category list. To specify the default categories to use for a new cookbook:
1. Select Tools… Data Management… Categories tab… Edit… button in the Defaults for New Cookbooks frame.
2. Add or Delete categories to the default category list.
Customize the Auto-Categorization Feature
To control how NYC auto-assigns recipes to categories:
1. Select Tools… Data Management… Categories tab… Keyword Strings … button in the Customize Auto-Assign Feature frame.
2. Add or delete category keywords and keyword substrings to control NYC’s auto-assign feature.
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