Creating an Allergen Group

A MealSuite account has the ability to create its own allergen groups to assign food items to. Creating al allergen group is a three-stage process:

• Creating an Allergen Group
• Adding Food Items to the Allergen Group
• Publishing the Newly-Created Allergen Group

Creating an Allergen Group

To create an allergen group, complete the following steps:

1. From the left navigation pane, select Tools & Setup > Allergen & Preference Groups. The Allergens & Preferences screen appears, with the Allergen Groups tab listed by default.
   
   
2. Click the Add New button. The New Allergen Group slide-out panel appears.
   
   
   
   
3. In the Name field, enter the name for the allergen group.
   
   
4. From the Type field, select Allergen Group.
   
   
5. In the Definition field, you can enter a short description of what the allergen group will contain.
   
   
6. Click the Save button.

Adding Food Items to the Allergen Group

After clicking Save, the panel refreshes with an Assigned Foods tab for you to add food items to the allergen group. For instructions to do so, start at step 2 in the following instructions: Adding Food Items to an Allergen Group. 

Publishing the Newly-Created Allergen Group

After food items are added to the allergen group, your final step is to publish it so that it is available to be assigned to residents/patients. In addition, it will also be available for use by any child accounts for them to assign to their residents/patients.

An unpublished group appears with a blue Publish notification-button (first screenshot below). Click the Publish notification-button to publish the allergen group. The notification-button changes to black Unpublish (second screenshot below).

Note: It is not recommended to publish the allergen group prior to adding food items to it; this is to prevent the allergen group being prematurely assigned to a resident/patient.