See previous NYC Tips
Avoiding Failed Imports of Meal-Master Recipes
When you import recipes into NYC, always use the Details... button on
the import status window to determine the reason for
any imports that failed. From this same window you can also quickly
edit a text file containing only those recipes that failed, so
that you can touch them up and reimport.
When a MM recipe fails to import into NYC, it is usually because one
or more of its ingredients exceeded NYC's 35 character
limit on ingredient descriptions. Keeping the ingredient description
short is a key to successful importing.
Often an ingredient is too lengthy because the author of the recipe
put preparation-type adjectives in front of the ingredients
or used commas to separate an ingredient description from its preparations.
For example, some ingredient descriptions
look like:
"peeled, sliced, potatoes" -OR- "potatoes, peeled and sliced"
which creates unnecessarily long ingredient descriptions when imported into NYC. The format that NYC expects, is:
"potatoes; peeled and sliced"
When NYC sees the semi-colon in this imported ingredient, it treats
"potatoes" as the ingredient and "peeled and sliced" as
the preparation. A similar situation often occurs when a MM ingredient
appears when "3 large potatoes" is formatted as
qty unit
description
3
large potatoes
In this situation, it is more appropriate to format "large" as a unit
of measure, rather than an adjective on the ingredient, as shown
here:
qty unit
description
3 large
potatoes
In this way, the imported ingredient description is kept to a minimum by proper use of the unit and preparation fields.