Viewing and Editing Ingredient Properties

Every ingredient has a set of properties.

There are four types of ingredient property:

  • Profile properties define general characteristics of the ingredient, including its material name and number, its function in the formula, processing notes, and footnotes.
  • Weight properties define ingredient quantities, overages, and ordering weights. You can define the ingredient’s target level in the batch, and specify adjustments to the target level based on activity level, processing loss, and specific gravity.
  • Quantum Sufficit (QS) properties define how the ingredient's level floats to make up the difference between the percentage sum of the other ingredients and 100%.
  • Similar Materials properties define similar materials that you can use to replace the ingredient in formulas.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
About Ingredients
Adding an Ingredient to a Formula
Ingredient Properties
Expanding Composite Ingredients
Viewing and Editing Constituent Properties
Constituent Properties
Working with Similar Materials
QS Ingredients
Adjustable Ingredients

View Ingredient Properties

  1. In the formula grid, select the ingredient whose properties you want to view.
  2. Click Open/Close Dock in the vertical bar to the right of the formula grid.
    The Ingredient Properties pane opens.
    Note: You can view the properties of another ingredient while the Properties panel is open by selecting the row for the other ingredient.
  3. Click the tab for the properties that you want to view:
    • Profile
    • Weights
    • QS
    • Similar Materials

Edit Ingredient Properties

You can edit some of the properties of an ingredient.

Note: You cannot edit properties in the Similar Materials tab. However, you can replace the ingredient's material with a similar material. For more information, see "Working with Similar Materials."
Note: Changes that you make to properties are queued immediately for saving. This means that if your computer loses access to the Formulation Design server, for example because of a network outage, you never lose more than a few seconds of work. When you close a properties pane, all your edits are queued immediately for saving. Because properties are saved automatically, there is no user interface control for saving them.

Before you begin: To perform this task, you must have the Formulation Designer 3DS role.
  1. In the Profile tab, edit options. For details, see Ingredient Properties: Profile.
  2. In the Weights tab, edit options. For details, see Ingredient Properties: Weights.
  3. In the QS tab, edit options. For details, see Ingredient Properties: QS.

Hide Ingredient Properties

When the Ingredient Properties pane is open, click Open/Close Dock at the top of the pane.
The Ingredient Properties pane collapses into a vertical bar.