D'Recips boasts an extensive editing section for your saved recipes, allowing you to practically edit anything about the recipe....ingredients, directions, rating, photo, tags, cooking time.
When you are in the main "saved" section and you would like to edit a recipe just select the recipe you would like to edit to be brought to the details view for that recipe.
Hit the edit button in the top right corner and you'll see the whole view go into edit mode such as little delete buttons appearing next to the individual ingredients. Once in this mode,
just touch the particular area you would like to edit. If you want to change a recipe's star rating, just touch the stars next to the photo. If you want to add a photo, touch the "Add Photo" square (same thing goes for changing from one photo to another). If you want to edit the "prep time", touch the prep time text.
**Only your personal recipes can have their recipe name edited. Ones that were saved from the database can have everything else edited except for the actual name.**
If you scroll all the way down the screen, you will see where you can add tags for this particular recipe. These tags that you specify can be used while searching through recipes when using the "saved" sections's search bar.
Tags can be used to specify main ingredient, type of recipe, nationality, method, etc...
The important thing to remember about adding tags is to separate them with a "," (comma). Don't use " ," (space and then a comma) otherwise the tag will not get recognized. Only use the comma.
Ingredients...
Adding, deleting and editing ingredients can all be done from this view as well. As you saw when you first put the details view into edit mode, just hit the red minus sign next to the particular ingredient you want to delete.
If you want to add ingredients, while in edit mode, hit the "+" button in the upper left corner. This will bring you to the ingredient editor where you can name and create your ingredient. Give the ingredient a name by selecting "Ingredient" and using the keyboard. Once you want to specify a serving,
select "Amount/Measuring Type" and a picker will appear where you can select type of serving and size.
If you don't see a type of serving available, choose the "Custom Measuring Type" row and it will allow you to create a serving type and add it to the picker. Put this "Custom Measuring" view that appears into edit mode and you will be able to delete serving types from the picker if there are ones you never use. You can also reorder the serving types so that way you're most used ones are always at the top of the picker and easily accessible.
Once you have specified an ingredient name and serving type/size, hit the "save" button and this will add the ingredient to your recipe and at the same time bring you back to that recipe details view where you will see the ingredients, including the one you just created.
If you want to edit the ingredient, select an ingredient while the recipe details view is in edit mode and this will bring you back to the ingredient editor just as it did when adding a new one. Same things apply for editing ingredients in the editor as does adding new ones.
Recordings/Directions...
Directions for your recipe can either be typed or recorded...
If you would like to type them, again, put the recipe details view into edit mode and just select the text area where it says "Type text notes/directions..." or the actual directions if you want to edit previous ones. This will bring you to a text editor where you can manually type out your directions. Once you have made the changes you want just hit the save button to be brought back to the details view where you can see the directions you just added.
If you don't feel like typing, then just hit the "Record new note/directions" selection right above the text and this brings you to a voice recorder. The voice recorder is very simple. It
just has 4 buttons....play, pause, stop, record. There is a text box above the media buttons where the recordings title will be displayed. By default, D'Recipe will timestamp each recording. If you want to actually give the recording a title just select the text box and it will become editable, allowing you to change the title.
There is no limit to how many recordings you can make but due to Apple's limitation of available memory for outside applications, it is best to keep recordings at a minimum. When recording directions and your are in between steps, hit the pause button. Don't just record silence. If you do use pause, once you hit record again, the recording will pick up right where you left off. Playback of that recording will be seamless so it will be a better all around performance boost when using the pause button while recording.
***If you plan to "pause" a recording, make sure you do use the pause button and not the stop button. The stop button, while recording, should only be used when you are completely done with the recording and you want to save it. If you hit stop while recording (instead of pause) and then hit play again before saving, any previous recording you had will be recorded over and lost. You would have to save that particular recording and then start a new one in order to not lose that data. ***
