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Hi,


I’m using the Recipe Organizer template.

I would like to add another view that calculates the total number for each ingredients.

For example:

Recipe 1 - Big Salad - consists of:6 Cucumbers and 8 Tomatoes.

Recipe 2 - Small Salads - consists of:3 Cucumbers and 4 Tomatoes.


The user needs to prepare 10 Big Salads and 4 Small Salads.


The output should be 72 Cucumbers and 96 Tomatoes.

Is it possible?


Thank you,


Sam

Take a look at this base I made for recipes/meal planners:



In the [Ingredients] table there is a Shopping List view which adds up all the ingredients necessary to make the recipes planned for the current week. It uses a series of formulas and rollups to accomplish this.


In order for my method to work, you’ll need a eRecipes] table, an eIngredients] table, and a eRecipe Ingredients] table which stores the ingredients and quantities of them required to make each recipe. I have another table called eMeals] so that I could string together multiple recipes, but you might not need it depending on your use case.


I would encourage you make a copy of that base and explore it a little to see how you can incorporate the structure with your own.


Thank you @Kamille_Parks for your reply.


At the end I used the “Recipe Organizer” template and added a checkbox field in the Recipes table.

In the Ingredients table I added a lookup field for this field.

Then I created a view in the Ingredients table grouped by the Ingredient, filtered by the checkbox - marked value.


Thank you again,


Sam


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