Managing Diet Type/Texture Type Combinations in your Account

• About the Diets and Textures Grid
• Opening the Diets and Textures Grid
• Unpublishing a Diet Type/Texture Type Combination
• Publishing an Unpublished Diet Type/Texture Type Combination

About the Diets and Textures Grid

The Diets and Textures Grid allows you to manage the diet type and texture type combinations to be assigned to resident/patient profiles and used in recipe extension grids, menu extension grids, menu reports and people reports.

Opening the Diets and Textures Grid

To open the Diets and Textures grid:

1. In your Core account, select Settings from the left navigation sidebar. The Settings panel appears to the right. 
    
2. From the Settings panel, select Dietary Settings > Diets & Texture Grid. The Diets & Textures Grid screen appears. 
   
   

Note the following: 

• The diet types are displayed as rows and the texture types are displayed as columns.
   
• A check mark indicates the diet/texture combination is published, which means it is available to be assigned to a resident/patient's profile. If a resident is assigned the diet/texture combination, then they will be served the substitute recipe for that combination that was extended for it on a menu item extension grid.
   
• An unpublished icon (i.e., circle with diagonal slash) indicates the diet/texture combination is unpublished, which means it is not available to be assigned to a resident's profile. However, an unpublished diet/texture combination is still available in recipe extension grids and menu item extension grids; this allows you to build the extensions for a recipe prior to publishing diet/texture combinations for the resident profiles.

Unpublishing a Diet Type/Texture Type Combination

The system allows you to unpublish a specific diet type/texture type combination. What this means is that the diet type/texture type combination will not be available to be assigned on a resident/patient profile. For example, assume the following diet type/texture type combination is unpublished:

• Diet type: Fat Restricted
• Texture type: Easy to Chew

On a resident/patient profile, the combination will not be available for selection. Either the diet type or texture type can be selected, but its combination counterpart will be greyed out and not available for selection. 

If a parent account unpublishes a diet type/texture type combination, then that combination will be unpublished in its child accounts, but can be republished by a child account if need be. 

If a combination is unpublished then on a recipe extension grid or a menu item extension grid, the diet type/texture type combination cell is grey to indicate it is unpublished (screenshot below). However, the extension cell still remains available to extend a recipe to if the diet type/texture type is ever published.

A diet type/texture type combination cannot be unpublished if it currently assigned to a resident/patient.

To unpublish a diet type/texture type combination: 

1. Open the Diets and Textures grid. 
    
2. To unpublish a diet type/texture type combination, click its check mark (first screenshot below). The check mark changes to an unpublished icon (second screenshot below) to indicate that the diet type/texture combination is now unpublished. 
   
   
   
   
   Note: If the diet type/texture type combination is currently assigned to a resident/patient in your account, then it cannot be unpublished. A message appears stating such, along with the number of people assigned the combination. 
   
   
   
   If it is a parent account attempting to unpublish the diet type/texture type combination, and that combination is assigned to resident/patients in one or more child accounts, then the combination cannot be unpublished. A message appears stating that the combination is currently assigned in child facilities, and lists the child facilities and the number of people assigned the combination in each facility.
   
   

Publishing an Unpublished Diet Type/Texture Type Combination

1. Open the Diets and Textures grid. 
    
2. To publish a diet type/texture type combination, click its unpublished icon (first screenshot below). The unpublished icon changes to a check mark (second screenshot below) to indicate that the diet type/texture type combination is now unpublished.