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Documents & Reports, Items, Parties, Properties, Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability Check in Find Matching Items

Suitability Check in Find Matching Items In Find Matching Items you have the option to include a Suitability Check as part of your search. This option is found in the ‘Library Details’ group. To access this group, you will need to click the double arrow ‘Expand’ button. Once the option is selected you are given the option to specify the Party, Application, Dosage and TO. First the system will find items matching the search criteria, then they will be checked against any s...

Documents & Reports, Items 20/07/2023

Treat Complex Raw Material as Formulation

Treat Complex Raw Material as Formulation This is a useful setting if you purchase a mixture (which you buy as a ‘Raw Material’) and sell it to others. In order to use ‘Treat Complex Raw Material as Formulation’ it must first be enabled in Manage Application Settings To apply the Treat as Formulation option: Go to Modify a Raw Material Under Composition Tab, select Treat as Formulation = Yes Before the changes to the SDS will be implemented, it is required to recalculate...

Items 20/07/2023

Undo Pending Changes

Using ‘Undo Pending Changes…’ This area can be used to return items back to their previous version. The Checked Out version of the item is removed and the last Checked In version is reinstated. Undo Pending Changes to Composition of a Raw Material Select a User to generate a list of Raw Materials in the process of having composition information added or edited. To change the status, select the Raw Material of interest from the list and select ‘Undo Pending Changes’...

Items, Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability – Add Exceptions Based on Application

Suitability – Add Exceptions Based on Application Some clients may ‘ban’ an ingredient from being used in their products, except they allow it for specified applications. For example, they may ban ingredient ethanol from their products, except if the product will be used in an application of alcoholic drinks or fine fragrance. You can reflect this situation in Suitability Management, using ‘Exceptions’. As a summary the exceptions have to be exactly equivalent to th...

Items, Parties, Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability – Customer raw materials allowed

Data Import and New Property (for Customer ‘allowed’ raw materials and suitability) Background Sometimes a customer provides a list of allowed raw materials, meaning any other ingredients are prohibited within their formulations. Formpak can help in this scenario by: Importing the status of ‘allowed’ for each raw material Advising on properties, so the status for a formulation can be calculated from the status of the raw materials Advising on suitability, so that during p...

Items, Properties, Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability – Identify but Don’t Prohibit Materials in a Suitability Check Report

Suitability – Identify but don’t prohibit materials in a suitability check report Example of use: You have a customer who needs certain ingredients to be identified to them e.g. on a questionnaire, but they do not limit or ban those ingredients. Add a Yes/No Property to group the target ingredients together. For example if polycyclic musks are a target, you could use a yes/no property ‘PM’ Add PM = Yes to all the polycyclic musks Add a suitability constraint, as in the ex...

Items 20/07/2023

Recursion Error

A recursion error is preventing me from printing a Safety Data Sheet A recursion error means a formulation or raw material has something in the composition which contains itself. This prevents a robust explosion to determine the product structure relevant for regulatory review because it creates a loop of explosions which would go on forever, to smaller and smaller quantities (a recursion error). To determine where the recursion is: go to “Print the Composition of an Item” and choose...

Administration, Documents & Reports, Items 20/07/2023

Resetting Document version numbers

Process for resetting document version numbers Go to View Documents for an Item and open your Formulation Select the document Click Reset Document Click Yes This will reset the version number Last updated Apr 2016...

Documents & Reports, Items, Properties 20/07/2023

SDS Print Errors

SDS Print Errors These are common error message that appear whilst attempting to print Safety Data Sheets “CLPANN2SDSVALID is false” This occurs if a Flash Point and/or Recommended Use have not been entered for the focus item. In ‘Modify a Formulation’ or ‘Modify a Raw Material’ go to the Properties tab and use group ‘Physical Data’ to enter a temperature value for Flash Point and use group ‘Recommended Uses’ to add a Recommended Use. P...

Items 20/07/2023

Search for an Item

Search for an Item ‘Search for Item’ allows you to search for items using specific or a combination of criteria. You can search using identification information such as Code, Cross Reference Code or Name, to find specific items: You can also search using the ‘Description’ and ‘Comment’ fields from the ‘Key Details’ tab of an item: You have the option to search by ‘Composition Type’ and / or specific Item Classes: You have options to sea...