decimals in properties issue

[vabene1111]

from @dsm1212

I realized you are still working on this so not submitting an issue, but the few things I tried to enter as a food just won't take. Here's a simple one. Baking powder at 1tsp (or 4.6g) has 1.3g of carbs. I tried to enter this multiple ways and none will work correctly. 4.6g/1.3g is an error saving. 1tsp/1.3g won't save correctly, it says success but ends up saving 1g/1.3g and with that impossible combo for 1tsp in recipe it show 0.05g of carbs which is odd. 46g/13g will save but the carb calculation for 1tsp in a recipe is 0. Probably I'm not doing the right thing with units.

opening a new issue as it has nothing to do with the other thread where this was posted

[vabene1111]

can confirm this is buggy

first of all food amounts did not support decimals, i added that but there is something else broken, looking into what it is

[vabene1111]

fixed the other issue as well

[dsm1212]

Thanks, is better but i'm still easily getting incorrect results. Couple of examples:

1. I set all purpose flour to 120g having 16g protein and 92g carb. I had to use 120g because I could not get 1cup to save. It seems like once you save the unit on that field it cannot be changed?
2. I added conversion of 120g to 1cup.

In a recipe which calls for 1.5 cups of all-purpose flour I get the correct totals for carbs and protein.
In a recipe for 1.25 cups of all-purpose flour I get zeros.
In a recipe for 2 cups of all-purpose flour I get zeros.
In a recipe for 2.5 cups of all-purpose flour I get zeros.

In all cases I'm drilling to the recipe by selecting "16 recipes" under all-purpose flour.

[vabene1111]

ok thanks, i need to look into that, reopening for now

[vabene1111]

i think all of this might be releated to a bug in the frontend. I wasn't abel to fully test this as i need to leave my desk now but i pushed the fix on beta (which is currently pretty stable).

The problem was that the food editor would always show gram as i had a small piece of code setting the frontend to "g" regardless of what it actually was. so you probably had cups set but it was showing grams. I did it to set the default unit to g but forgot to check if anythign else was already present.

If you want you can try out if the issue is fixed, if not i will when i get the time to do so

[dsm1212]

Sorry, I never switched to beta. I'm not seeing any difference on mainline (yet).

[dsm1212]

Ah, I take that back, it is better. What I'm seeing now is that some recipes I used the word cups when it was > 1 cup and my conversion is for cup. I added an identical conversion for cups and now it works. This is fine, but I mention only because you might want to add volume equalities globally. Then you could automatically include plurals as well as common things like 3tsp == 1Tbl so we don't have to add them everywhere.

Is it possible to manually add another property? Sodium, Potassium in particular. These have an impact on kidneys and some people count them, if I'm going to enter this stuff I'd like to enter these as well.

Thanks!

[vabene1111]

if you have plurals or not depends on what units you created. if you created cup and cups seperately you will need to add your own conversions, but you can also add cup with plural cups and only need one.

regarding properties: you can add as many properties as you like on the property type page

[dsm1212]

Sorry I poked around and I can't figure out what this means: "you can also add cup with plural cups and only need one". Are you just saying use the plural all the time or is there a feature to somehow add cup along with cups and it will treat like one unit? I don't see many options on the unit editor. Just "name, description and Open Data Slug". Is open data slug some way to extend to plurals? thx

[vabene1111]

it should look like this with plural on the second line. Add "cup" as name "cups" as plural. Maybe i could add cup as a base unit as well but i think its a bit disputed how large a cup actually is

[dsm1212]

Wierd that is not what I see. I only have name, description, and open data slug. Maybe I should switch to beta?