Creating Shopping List

Description

This set of instructions helps you create and use the shopping list features of BeerSmith.

Have you ever forgot an important ingredient for your favorite recipe at the beer store? The shopping list feature for BeerSmith helps build a shopping list directly from your recipes with a single click of a button.

The Shopping List View

You can view your shopping list by selecting the Shopping List from the shortcut window or the Shopping List command on the View menu.

To add items to your shopping list, just click on the New Item button and fill out the dialog describing your item.

Adding Ingredients from Other Views

You can also add items to your shopping list from other views. For example if you go to the Hops View, it has a command Add to List on the context bar that adds the currently selected items to the shopping list.

Note that you can also drag and drop items directly to the shopping list. For example if you drag a hops item from the Hops View to the Shopping List view in the Shortcut pane, it will be added to the list.

Adding an Entire Recipe

The same process used above can be used to add an entire recipe to the shopping list. For example you can use the Add to List button to add a recipe to the shopping list. In the case of a recipe, however, all of the items are added to the shopping list.

If you add multiple recipes to the shopping list, you will see that the quantities for identical items are actually added together to build the total list.

Drag and drop also works with recipes. You can drag a recipe from the Recipes view and drop it on the Shopping List shortcut to add its ingredients.

Undoing Added Items

The Undo command works with items added to the shopping list, so you can remove them using the Undo command on the View menu.

Printing the Shopping List

Select the Print List command on the context bar while in Shopping List View to print a copy of the shopping list.

Emptying the Shopping List

Select the Empty Shopping List command on the Actions menu to empty your shopping list.