I searched the forum for this and did not see anything so here is my suggestion. I hate to have to sort thru the list of ingredients when the vast majority of them are not in my inventory. An option to only show user entered ingredients or a only those in stock would make my recipe creation a whole lot simpler.
If I could delete database entries I might do that but a boolean database field that would indicate 'in stock' along with a viewer option to hide any entries not identified in this fashion would be a great feature without too much work.
Thanks and best regards.
Rick
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Inventory Feature
Welcome to our group, Rick ('fivemilepoint'). I'm pretty sure an inventory feature was virtually promised some time back, and I suspect that it might be included in the upcoming major upgrade. If so, I would imagine, to make it useful, that it will have some sort of a feature along the lines of your suggestion -- which has actually been made before -- perhaps with a separate 'Inventory' button right up there next to the 'Browse' and 'New' buttons. At least I hope so.
Cheers.
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More re inventory feature
Jeff and Lathe have put together a fabulous program, and based on their thoroughness and the considerable feedback that they've received, I would expect that any inventory feature that they come up with will be very complete and robust, and that the program WILL automatically debit inventory whenever anything is selected for a recipe. Now, they might well have to have a 'brewed' button to distinguish from 'planned' recipes that never get brewed versus those that actually are and consequently use inventory, but I trust all of that will be worked out. I'm like a kid right before Christmas; I'm REALLY anxious for the big upgrade.
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Limit inventory with "Find" field
One thing I've learned to do is to avoid scrolling the Grains list and use the "Find" field. Start typing in "CRY" and the list becomes much shorter, limited to just the Crystal Malts. Saves me a lot of time and annoyance scanning the long grain list.
It's not really what you're looking for, but it's a decent stop-gap until the Inventory function is implemented. I can still see a usefulness to editing the lists, though. It needs to have 32 kinds of Munich malt to fit everyone's needs, but 6 or 8 would cover everything I buy.
It's not really what you're looking for, but it's a decent stop-gap until the Inventory function is implemented. I can still see a usefulness to editing the lists, though. It needs to have 32 kinds of Munich malt to fit everyone's needs, but 6 or 8 would cover everything I buy.
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Re: Limit inventory with "Find" field
I use this feature but there are still too many grains for my liking - certainly it works well for hops. I also tried prefixing a '*' to my available grains but gave it up and am back to where I started. Guess I will just have to wait.slothrob wrote:One thing I've learned to do is to avoid scrolling the Grains list and use the "Find" field. Start typing in "CRY" and the list becomes much shorter, limited to just the Crystal Malts. Saves me a lot of time and annoyance scanning the long grain list.
It's not really what you're looking for, but it's a decent stop-gap until the Inventory function is implemented. I can still see a usefulness to editing the lists, though. It needs to have 32 kinds of Munich malt to fit everyone's needs, but 6 or 8 would cover everything I buy.
Thanks
Rick