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Manage Recipe Revisions and Publishing

What recipe statuses mean (Draft, Active, Revision, Archived), how revisions are created, and how to publish or discard them.

Written by Souha Alameddine

Recipe Statuses

  • Draft: A new recipe before it has been published for the first time. Drafts do not appear in the recipe book and cannot be added to menus. Gaia saves all edits to a draft automatically.

  • Active: The most recently published version of the recipe. This is the version that appears on production records and public menus.

  • Revision: An in-progress edit to an Active recipe. The Active version stays live while you work on the revision. Edits are saved automatically.

  • Archived: A version that has been replaced by a newer one, or a recipe that has been deactivated. Archived recipes do not appear in normal search results.

Editing an Active Recipe

When you edit a recipe that is already Active, Gaia automatically creates a Revision. The Active version remains live for school menus and production records until the Revision is published.

While a Revision exists, the recipe page shows the in-progress changes in edit mode and the Active version when viewing or printing.

Publishing a Revision

  1. Open the recipe in the Pantry.

  2. Confirm your changes are complete on each tab.

  3. Click Publish on the recipe page.

  4. Optionally add a publish note describing the change.

  5. The Revision becomes the new Active version, and the previous Active version moves to Archived.

Discarding a Revision

To abandon the changes in a Revision and keep the current Active version, use the Discard option from the recipe actions menu. Discarding removes the in-progress edits and restores the recipe to its last published state.

Version History

Each published version of a recipe records who published it, when, and the publish note. Use the recipe's version history to review past versions and the reasons they were published.

Where Each Status Appears

  • Draft: hidden from the recipe book, cannot be added to menus.

  • Active: visible in the recipe book; appears on menus, production records, and the public menu.

  • Revision: the recipe book and menus still show the Active version. Your in-progress changes are visible in edit mode on the recipe page.

  • Archived: hidden from the recipe book unless the archived filter is on; appears on historical production records.

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