[Logging] Recall Custom food on subsequent Barcode scan
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Dan Dipasquo
When I use Barcode to scan a food item and the nutritional content information is wrong (e.g. recipe or size of packaged product has changed), I use "Edit this item" to create a Custom food - this record includes the barcode. However when I subsequently use Barcode and scan the same food item, the result comes from the global database (and is thus incorrect) rather than the Custom food item that I created.
If a Custom food item matches a scanned Barcode, the app should present the content of the Custom item - (or some option to choose between the Custom or the database version.)
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Lynette Diaz
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Lynette Diaz
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[Logging] Barcode search and custom foods
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Rebecca Schulman
It would be great if the barcode search worked on custom foods. Since we’re entering the barcode information anyway, it would be nice to then be able to scan those foods. That does not yet seem to be the case. Also, it might be nice to have an option to flag wildly incorrect entries that come up in search.
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Dan Dipasquo
It appears this still does not work as expected. There is another thread on this here https://levels-health.canny.io/feature-requests/p/recall-custom-food-on-subsequent-barcode-scan
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John Bonin
Perhaps on the 2nd time with this food just use your custom food instead of scanning it again? The scan errors are another issue entirely
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Katie Boone
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John Agnew
100%!
I also find barcode scan mismatches with what's on the package. It would be nice for a user entered correction to the barcode scan to then go out and be validated by other scanners (or Levels "power users") of that same barcode, and if in agreement, that should update the database. It's frustrating to have to correct and recorrect, and recorrect the same item... I end up just going with the bogus info and moving on with my life...
Wikipedia has trusted editors who make corrections. Maybe Levels could have a similar approach... or if X users all agree that a barcode is wrong, that might update the database...
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Rebecca Schulman
I’ve actually had a conversation with one of the levels team about this and it is supposed to work the way you and I want it to, but for some reason doesn’t. They seemed surprised when I told them my custom foods weren’t what was coming up when I used barcode scan after modifying an incorrect entry (or in some cases making a new one).
The system really should give an option to choose from multiple items when you barcode scan just like when you search, at a minimum, but imo it should always preferentially pull from your custom foods.
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Dan Dipasquo
Rebecca Schulman I thought I might have done it wrong before but confirmed that this does NOT work as I expect. In fact because it didn't work I created a second copy of a custom food to correct incorrect data from the global database - and after another Barcode scan still got the original (wrong) data.
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Lynette Diaz
Rebecca Schulman Hi there! If you scan the barcode first, and are prompted to create a custom food. The next time you scan the barcode you should see your custom entry pull up. Let me know if that's not the case. I think the caveat is that the barcode # needs to be in the custom food.
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Tuna Ertemalp
I've been able to scan barcodes for my custom foods after I created them while having meals afterwards.
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Rebecca Schulman
I haven’t tried recently after it didn’t work the first couple times, so maybe it was already in the works and I just missed the feature?
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Rebecca Schulman
Tuna Ertemalp Still doesn't work for me. Can you share your secret?
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Tuna Ertemalp
Rebecca SchulmanHmmm... At a loss. Just tried again. I had scanned an "ethnic" bag of sunflower seeds few weeks ago, before the database was expanded to include a lot of such items, complete with my own naming, made sure the barcode assigned to the custom food exactly matched that on the package with all the leading and trailing digits, and now when I scan that barcode, my custom food comes up... Not sure what I did or am doing extra to make it work.
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Rebecca Schulman
Tuna Ertemalp glad it works for you! Still doesn’t work for me :(
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Tuna Ertemalp
Lynette Diaz Is this a feature that is only in some builds and not in some others?
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Lynette Diaz
Tuna Ertemalp Rebecca Schulman hey there! Actually this should be accessible in all recent builds. However, from my experience, the order matters here. You'll want to scan the barcode first, if the item isn't in the system, you'll be prompted to create a custom food. In these cases, you should see that the barcode number has already been filled in. Once you add the remaining macros and save the log, you should be able to scan the barcode in the future and have it pull up your custom food. Let me know if that helps.
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Rebecca Schulman
Tuna Ertemalp I’ve tried it where I scanned a barcode that wasn’t recognized and created a custom food, created a custom food and manually typed in the barcode, and scanned a barcode to discover wildly inaccurate info and subsequently modified it to create a corrected custom food. When I then scan the barcode I’ve almost always gotten the original incorrect food or other random entries come up. That means it’s not preferentially using my saved customs, which makes no sense and goes back to one of my other requests. I haven’t actually had one just not
come up at all, but that’s probably inevitable. That most likely means my customs overlap with entires other people have made, but so many of those have incorrect data it’s laughable and I generally don’t bother searching and just make my own customs for most foods with labels and use the database for easy things like “blueberries.”
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Lynette Diaz
Rebecca Schulman that's interesting. Custom entries can only ever be used or seen by the individuals who made them. How many custom foods do you have? If you're open to it would love to have a chat and maybe we can explore this feature together to figure out what might be going on here, feel free to schedule a time with me here, 📞 https://calendly.com/lynette-at-levels/support-call.
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Rebecca Schulman
Lynette Diaz I'd be open to that. I'll take a look.
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