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 an account has been assigned maintenance responsibility for a diet type or texture type, then on the respective Diets screen and Textures screen, the Maintained By column displays the account name beside the following symbol: , as per screenshot below of the Diets screen. 

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. Open the Diets screen. 
    
2. Click the name of the diet type that your account is currently maintaining and that you want to assign maintenance responsibility of to child accounts. The diet type-specific screen appears. 
   
   
    
3. Click the Assign Maintenance button. A confirmation message appears stating the diet type will be maintained by child accounts, and that the change cannot be reversed. 
   
   
    
4. Click the Assign button. The diet type is now the responsibility of the child accounts to maintain. Each child account will receive a notification on the home screen that states 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/Showing an Unpublished Diet Type on Extension Grids.
• 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. Open the Texture screen.
    
2. Click the name of the texture type that your account is currently maintaining and that you want to assign maintenance responsibility of to child accounts. The texture type-specific screen appears. 
   
   
    
3. Click the Assign Maintenance button. A confirmation message appears stating the texture type will be maintained by child accounts. Note that once maintenance responsibility is assigned to child accounts, it cannot be reversed.
    
   
    
4. Click the OK button. The texture type is now the responsibility of the child accounts to maintain. Each child account will receive a notification on the home screen that states 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/Showing an Unpublished Texture Type on Extension Grids.
• 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 an account has been assigned maintenance responsibility for a fluid type, then on the Fluid Types screen the Maintained By column displays the account name beside the following symbol: .
 

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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. Open the Fluid Types screen.
    
2. Click the name of the fluid type that your account is currently maintaining and that you want to assign maintenance responsibility of to child accounts. The fluid type-specific screen appears. 
   
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3. Click the Assign Maintenance button. A confirmation message appears stating the fluid type will be maintained by child accounts. Note that once maintenance responsibility is assigned to child accounts, it cannot be reversed.  
   
   
    
4. Click the OK button. The fluid type is now the responsibility of the child accounts to maintain. 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/Showing an Unpublished Fluid Type on Fluid Substitution Grids.
• 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.