BigOven

I am on this page http://beta.bigoven.com/recipepage.aspx?id=160504 and I would like to "Import" the recipe into Big Oven on my computer. Am I missing something, or where is the "import" button?

Not yet added but will be put there soon. 

In the meantime, as you probably know, you can look at the recipe id number in the URL, then go to BigOven for Windows, click Find, and type that number into the find box to quickly find and import the recipe.  Thanks!

An update -- the "import" button is now on the bottom of the beta site.

Thanks! Website looks good. Bold colours are very impressive. Easier to search for a recipe now and the "Recent Raves" is a good place to start if one is looking for something different.

Why not put the "Import" button right up beside "Try Soon, Favourite and Send to a Friend" in another red button? It would be more useful and helpful, as it is a decision that can be made about the recipe as the others are.

The reason why is that only a small fraction of the total visitors to the site own the BigOven for Windows software.  (BigOven.com currently gets over 3 million unique users a month, and we haven't quite sold that many copies of BigOven for Windows yet :-)). 

OK, I see your point, but "maybe" this might encourage people to buy the software, eypecially if the button stated "Import directly into my BigOven program" or something like that. Might get them curious about the program. Just a suggestion. :-)

I have to agree with qwerty here also, I find having to scroll down to the bottom of the page is more tedious than having a button at the top with the rest.  Seems like it would go great next to the rest of the red buttons as another red button and as qwerty mentioned would maybe make more people aware of the software capabilites or even that it exists.  At the least it may make people ask what that button is for or search the forums to find out that the cool program offered can import recipes right inside it and that they don't always have to get them all online.  Just my 2 cents :P

 Thanks, but this also causes frustration for the many users who use the Mac, Unix, etc., and can cause unnecessary support issues for us. 

In the software, you should NOT be scrolling down the page to import it.  Look for the (much bigger) import! button in the software itself, above the recipe you're looking at, on the "web navigation bar" of BigOven.

The preferred way of getting recipes into the software is not to use that tiny import button in the footer at all (that's why it's in the footer, and that's why it's tiny).  In general, you should first launch the program, then find the recipe (you can simply type the recipe id number into the dialog that pops up after you click "Find")... then click "import" above the view window.

The main reason that tiny button exists is if you are already a BigOven for Windows user, and if you don't have it open and run across a recipe you like on the main website, then clicking it will automatically launch the program and let you import the recipe.

But like MS Windows, there should be many ways of doing things. You want us to use the Big Oven webpage, and then you tell us to use the program. If I'm on the webpage, I don't really want to open the program and do a search again. I want that recipe and I want it now.

The scrolling isn't on the software it is on the site.  The comment was about adding the button on the site by the nice pretty new red buttons that have the Try Soon, Favs, etc. instead of having to scroll to the bottom of the recipe on the site page to import it.

I would find your other suggestion useful if there was an ID number in the recipes on the site?  If there is I'm totally missing them, I just checked 3 recipes for the past few minutes and see no ID number on them.  It's there nice and easy to find in the program right by the name of the Recipe, but not on the site.  If we are supposed to be able to import by putting the recipe ID into the program then I guess we need an ID number?  Or I am totally misunderstanding what you meant LOL.

*btw, bug in your forums that when I hit enter twice because I keep forgetting that this thing doublespaces automattically, if I backspace to go back to the next line it always goes to the end of the previous line instead of the beginning lol, not sure what you can do about that, I guess it depends on what forums you're using etc. but anyways I posted it here because I have done it 3 times in this post lol*

I have to agree with qwerty on the issue of I don't always have the program open either when I'm looking for something, many times I do but sometimes I'm just checking something out on the site and get side tracked and find a new recipe I want to import so I hit the import button waaaay dowwwwn attttt the botttommm offf theee paagggeee LOL.  I'm confused on how putting that button at the top by the other red buttons on the site will mess up other operating systems?  That didn't quite make sense to me unless you were thinking we meant in the software?

Anyways, not wanting to argue with you over it, like I said I do know where the button is on the site page, just would be nicer on top instead of bottom.  Other than that, I guess the ID number thing needs clarification for me please :)

qwertz:

But like MS Windows, there should be many ways of doing things. ...If I'm on the webpage, I don't really want to open the program and do a search again. I want that recipe and I want it now.

Sounds like a job for -- BigOvenTool for IE.

>> I would find your other suggestion useful if there was an ID number in the recipes on the site?

Ahh, good point.  We should make this more prominent on the webpage, but the recipe id number is the only number that is in the URL when you are viewing the recipe page.

For instance, if you're browsing:

http://www.bigoven.com/164785-Garlic---Parmesan-Crusted-Pork-Chops-recipe.html

The recipe id # is 164785

... and for:

http://www.bigoven.com/150972-Black-And-Green-Olive-Tapenade-recipe.html

the recipe id number is 150972.

One of the new features of the website is that you can also now quickly find a recipe by id number by typing it into the search box in the upper right of the website.

ahhhh tyvm that helps a lot for importing, is still a few steps that shouldn't be necessary if the import on the site works to open the program etc. which it does, just opens multiples is all hehe, but.... at least this will save time having to re-search things in the software if we find them on the website.  Hopefully someday you'll move that import button to the top on the website for us though :P

On a second note as to another thing about software vs. website, the website is so pretty now that I want to be on the site searching rather than always in the software LOL, will it be pretty in the software too eventually?  That would be really nice *hint hint* LOL, just kidding, not sure that's in the works or feasible, just letting you know that it's actually nicer searching on the site than in the software which is part of the reason it would be nice to have it more functional between the software and site too :)

P.S.  BigOvenTool for IE?  What's that?

Another suggestion - how about putting the recipe number in a red box at the top. We (who own Big Oven) would know to click it to open Big Oven and import the recipe. Those that click on it out of curiousity would be taken to a page where it is explained that they can buy/try the program, and by clicking on that button again, the recipe will be automaticall imported into their new Big Oven program.

I have to agree with a previous poster. I now like using the BigOven.com for searching instead of searching via my BigOven Software program. And I do spend more time on BigOven.com than I did in the past. However, it is more trouble to import a recipe from the internet site than from the software. Until reading this post I would just search the exact name of the recipe in my software program and import. It was helpful to learn from the responses to this post how I can find the id number and just search with that instead of having to search by the name of the recipe which would always bring up several similar names. So searching by id # is easier. But still not as simple as the import button on the software program. I did scroll down to find the small import button on the internet site. But it does not import as easy as it does through the software, as it requests if I want to save or open the file. I did not know if I selected save where it would put the file and then if I would have to move it to the recipe box I wanted. So I did not use it. I found it easier to copy the id # and import directly into the recipe box that I wanted through the software program. Yes, the option to import from the website just like we are used to doing from the software program would be nice. But if that is not an option in the future at least copying the id # and searching via the software and importing is still easier than manually importing from the clipboard, and then having to import the picture.