Define And Save Recipes

Now that you've got the variables for your recipes, you need to tell HELIO that these variables make up a recipe type.

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1. Define a Recipe Type

1. Add a Recipe Type

Navigate to the Recipes View and:

• Click the Add button next to the Recipe Types header on the left.
• Name the recipe type Product Recipe.

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2. Add Parameters

Next, we need to add the parameters we want our recipe type to contain:

• Click Add next to the Parameters header on the right.
• Choose the Boolean variable and the Integer > WithEnumeration variable.

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3. Set Permissions

You need to allow read, write, and load operations for your recipe type, so your operators can use them. In the following example, all these permissions are set to Allow everyone.

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2. Save Your First Recipe

Create a Parameter Page with all the values of our recipe type and a Save as Recipe Action button so that you can actually create different recipes with different settings quickly.

In a real world scenario, the parameters of a recipe type might actually be scattered all over your HMI and you may want to add a Save as Recipe Action button to your header or footer.

1. Add a Parameter Page

Navigate to the Content View and:

• Add a Parameter Page and give it a descriptive name.
• Add a Parameter with a Magic Input for each of our recipe parameters.
• Add a Button to the footer of the page, set its action to Save as Recipe Action, and select our Product Recipe recipe type.

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2. Save A Recipe

Use the HMI Preview Panel and switch to Test mode.

• Adjust some recipe values and save the current state as recipe.
• Provide a name, for example Recipe 1, and save it.

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3. Save Another One

Hey, could you save another recipe with different values? That'll help us compare our first recipe to something else.

Mission accomplished!

We've got some reusable recipes saved for later, and we'll learn how to load them next.