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The autoarchiving feature is intended to help you organize large numbers of recipes that are downloaded or imported. Once you have configured the feature most of your recipes will end up in the correct cookbooks and chapters instead of having to download to a single cookbook and move them around later.
Let's say you like to organize your recipes by cuisine. You have a cookbook named My International Recipes with the following chapters:
- My International Recipes (cookbook)
- American (chapter)
- Cajun (sub-chapter)
- Tex Mex (sub-chapter)
- Chinese (chapter)
- French (chapter)
Enable autoarchiving for recipe downloads
Let's start by turning on the autoarchive feature for recipe downloads.
On the Tools menu, select Options.
Under Internet, select Recipe Download.
Under Download target (on the right), select Use autoarchiver.
Click OK.
Select the default autoarchive location
Now, let's make our cookbook the default location for autoarchiving. The default autoarchive location is where the autoarchiver puts recipes when no autoarchive rules match the recipe.
On the Tools menu, select Options.
Under Recipe, select Autoarchive.
next to Cookbook.Configure autoarchive rules for a chapter
Select the Recipe Navigator.
Select (or create) the American chapter in the My International Recipes cookbook.
On the Action menu, select Edit Cookbook Chapter.
Select the Autoarchive tab. This is where we will define the rules that will describe the recipes that we want to put into this chapter.
Click the Add button.
Select Recipe Type from the Attribute list.
Type American in the Expression box.
Note Autoarchive expressions are not case-sensitive.
Select Standard as the autoarchive rule type.
Click OK to close the Add Autoarchive Rule window.
Configure the remaining chapters
Now we can repeat the process with the Cajun, Tex-Mex, Chinese, and French chapters. The process is exactly the same for these chapters except you should enter 1 in the Autoarchive rule priority" box for the Cajun and Tex Mex chapters. We want these chapters to have a higher priority than the American chapter (e.g. if a recipe is tagged as Cajun and American we want it to land in the Cajun chapter, not the American chapter).
Search for recipes to download
Now that we have configured our cookbook and chapters we can start downloading recipes.
Select the Internet Navigator.
If the search toolbar is not visible, select Find from the Action menu.
On the search toolbar, type Jambalaya in the Look For box.
Select Internet from the Search In list. This step is important.
Click Find Now.
You should see an everylastrecipe.com search results page populated with Jambalaya recipes. Here's another way of doing the same thing:
Select the Internet Navigator.
Type www.everylastrecipe.com in the address box of Living Cookbook's web browser.
or press the return key.Download a recipe
To be absolutely sure that the Jambalaya recipes listed are Cajun recipes, click the Cajun filter in the Filter by Cuisine facet on the left of the everylastrecipe.com results page.
A download prompt should appear at the top of the webpage. Click the Download button on the download prompt.
Verify the location of the recipe
If everything has gone according to plan, the downloaded Jambalaya recipe should now be in the Cajun chapter in your Living Cookbook database. Let's make sure.
Select the Recipe Navigator.
Select the Cajun chapter in the My International Recipes cookbook.