Maintenance Responsibility of Diet, Texture and Fluid Types

• About Maintenance Responsibility of Diet Types and Texture Types
• Parent Account: Assigning Maintenance of Diet Type to Child Accounts
  • Note the Following
• Parent Account: Assigning Maintenance of Texture Type to Child Accounts
  • Note the Following
• About Maintenance Responsibility of Fluid Types
• Parent Account: Assigning Maintenance of Fluid Type to Child Accounts
  • Note the Following
• What Happens When New Child Accounts are Added?

About Maintenance Responsibility of Diet Types and Texture Types

The parent-child account hierarchy structure in the Mealsuite system allows a parent account to assign maintenance responsibility of diet types and texture types to their first-level child accounts.

What this means is that the parent account will no longer be responsible for extending to those diet types or texture types when extending a recipe with substitutions. Instead, the responsibility for extending recipes to those diet types and texture types will be with their first-level child accounts.

The third column in the table below lists the account level responsible for maintaining a diet order when its respective parent account (first column) assigns maintenance to its child accounts.

When a child account has been assigned maintenance responsibility for a diet type or texture type, then the header of such diet types and texture types are highlighted blue in extension grids (first screenshot below) and the diet order settings screen (second screenshot below). 



 

Parent Account: Assigning Maintenance of Diet Type to Child Accounts

A parent account can assign maintenance responsibility of a diet type to child accounts if the following conditions are met:

• The parent account is currently responsible for maintaining the diet type.
• One or more child accounts do exist for the parent account. 

To assign maintenance of a diet type to your child accounts, complete the following steps:

1. From the left navigation sidebar, select Tools & Setup > Diet Orders. The Diet Order Setting screen appears with the Diets and Textures tab automatically open.
2. Ensure the Diet Category field is is Standard.
3. Click the name of the diet type, The Diet Type slide-out panel appears.
4. If your account currently maintains the diet type (as indicated by the Maintained By field), then you can assign maintenance to child accounts. To do so, click the Assign Maintenance link (first screenshot below), and the confirmation message appears (second screenshot below). 
   
   
   
   
    
5. Click the Assign button. The diet type is now the responsibility of the child accounts to maintain.
    
   • The Maintained By field for the diet type states Child Accounts to indicate such (screenshot below). 
     
     
      
   • In addition, each child account will receive a notification that states that they are now responsible to maintain the diet type. 
     
     

Note the Following

• As the parent account, now that you do not maintain responsibility for a diet type, you can decide to hide it in the system for your account. See Hiding Diet Orders. 
• When a child account maintains a diet type, the existing system logic that occurs when a parent account extends a recipe to diet orders does not change. In other words, the parent account will still have the ability to extend recipes to diet types and texture types maintained by a child account. 
• For diet types that are not maintained by child accounts, it is still the responsibility of the child accounts to review the substitute recipes for diet type/texture type combinations to make sure the substitute recipes are appropriate for their facility standards they have for diet types and texture types.

Parent Account: Assigning Maintenance of Texture Type to Child Accounts

A parent account can assign maintenance responsibility of a  texture type to child accounts if the following conditions are met:

• The parent account is currently responsible for maintaining the texture type. 
• One or more child accounts do exist for the parent account. 

To assign maintenance of a texture type to your child accounts, complete the following steps:

1. From the left navigation sidebar, select Tools & Setup > Diet Orders. The Diet Order Setting screen appears with the Diets and Textures tab automatically open.
2. Ensure the Diet Category field is is Standard.
3. Click the name of the texture type. The Edit Texture Type slide out panel appears. 
4. If your account currently maintains the texture type (as indicated by the Maintained By field), then you can assign maintenance to child accounts. To do so, click the Assign Maintenance to Child Accounts link (first screenshot below), and the confirmation message appears (second screenshot below). 
   
   
   
   
    
5. Click the OK button. The texture type is now the responsibility of the child accounts to maintain.
    
   • The Maintained By field for the diet type or texture type states Child Accounts to indicate such (screenshot below). 
     
     
      
   • In addition, each child account will receive a notification that states that they are now responsible to maintain the texture type. 
     
     

Note the Following

• As the parent account, now that you do not maintain responsibility for a texture type, you can decide to hide it in the system for your account. See Hiding Diet Orders. 
• When a child account maintains a texture type, the existing system logic that occurs when a parent account extends a recipe to diet orders does not change. In other words, the parent account will still have the ability to extend recipes to diet types and texture types maintained by a child account. 
• For texture types that are not maintained by child accounts, it is still the responsibility of the child accounts to review the substitute recipes for diet type/texture type combinations to make sure the substitute recipes are appropriate for their facility standards they have for diet types and texture types.

About Maintenance Responsibility of Fluid Types

The parent-child account hierarchy structure in the Mealsuite system allows a parent account to assign maintenance responsibility of fluid types to their first-level child accounts.

What this means is that the parent account will no longer be responsible for extending to those fluid types when extending a recipe with fluid recipes. Instead, the responsibility for extending fluid recipes to those fluid types will be with their first-level child accounts.

The third column in the table below lists the account level responsible for maintaining a fluid type when its respective parent account (first column) assigns maintenance to its child accounts.

When a child account has been assigned maintenance responsibility for a fluid type, then the header of such a fluid type is highlighted blue in fluid extension grids (first screenshot below), the fluid tab of the diet order settings screen (second screenshot below), and the fluid substitution grid (third screenshot below). 

Parent Account: Assigning Maintenance of Fluid Type to Child Accounts

A parent account can assign maintenance responsibility of a fluid type to child accounts if the following conditions are met:

• The parent account is currently responsible for maintaining the fluid type. 
• One or more child accounts do exist for the parent account. 

To assign maintenance of a fluid type to your child accounts, complete the following steps:

1. Select Tools & Setup > Diet Orders. The Diet Order Setting screen appears. 
2. Click the Fluid Type tab.
3. Click the name of the fluid type. The Update Fluid Type slide-out panel appears (screenshot below). 
4. If your account currently maintains the fluid type (as indicated by the Maintained by field), then you can assign maintenance to child accounts. To do so, click the Assign Maintenance to Child Accounts link (first screenshot below), and the confirmation message appears (second screenshot below).
   
   
   
   
    
5. Click the OK button. The fluid type is now the responsibility of the child accounts to maintain.
   • The Maintained By field for the fluid type states Child Accounts to indicate such.
     
     
      
   • In addition, each child account will receive a notification on their home screen that states that they are now responsible to maintain the fluid type. 
     
     

Note the Following

• As the parent account, now that you do not maintain responsibility for a fluid type, you can decide to hide it in the system for your account. See Hiding Diet Orders for more information. 
• When a child account maintains a fluid type, the existing system logic that occurs when a parent account extends a recipe with fluid recipes does not change. In other words, the parent account will still have the ability to extend a recipe across any fluid type maintained by a child account. 
• For fluid types that are not maintained by child accounts, it is still the responsibility of the child accounts to review the substitute fluid recipes for these fluid types to make sure the substitute fluid recipes are appropriate for their facility standards they have for the fluid types. 

What Happens When New Child Accounts are Added?

A diet order no longer maintained by a parent account is considered "obsolete" by that parent account. Therefore, for any new child account that comes online, the "obsolete" diet order will not be visible to that new child account. 

If a child account requires a diet order not available to their account, then that account must request a new diet order; see Requesting a New Diet, Texture or Fluid Type.