2025 October Release Notes

This release notes article documents the new features, fixes, validations and new attributes added to Erudus for the month

New Features

Manufacturer Users


  • When marking a product error as “Resolved” any text that has been entered in the reply box will be sent without needing to press the “Add Reply” button before resolving

  • Manufacturers can now archive multiple specifications at once from their product catalogue via the Manufacturer Dashboard. The knowledge base article How to Archive Products in Bulk has been made available to advise users how to use this new feature.

Wholesaler Users


  • Wholesalers can now remove their wholesaler product codes in bulk. The Knowledge Base article Removing Wholesaler Product Codes in Bulk has been published to support users performing this action in Erudus

  • A new CSV download format has been added for data to be uploaded to Avendra

Fixes


All Users


  • There was an issue when selecting a country of origin using the Query Builder. Every other option in the list of countries was “Not Specified”. This has been fixed and now the list has only one instance of each option for country of origin

  • There was an issue causing some special characters not to display correctly on PDF specifications. This has been resolved and special characters used in specifications will now display correctly

  • After submitting a product data error, using the “Back” button on the specification page would no longer work and just refresh the page for the specification. This has been resolved and using the back button ofter submitting an error will take you back to the previous page you were viewing

  • There was an issue when adding multiple products to product lists. Adding multiple codes related to the same product was presenting a validation error implying that a code couldn’t match to a product. This has been fixed and when adding multiple codes for the same product to a list there will be no validation errors implying products can’t be found

  • Following enhancements to the search tools, there was an issue not presenting any results when searching for 8 digit GTINs. This has been resolved and searches for 8 digit GTINs will present users with results when a match has been found

  • Formatting changes to multipack specification PDF downloads to more clearly indicate where individual components are on the specification 

Manufacturer Users


  • There was a temporary issue where a non mandatory attribute “Cheese Texture” was being flagged as being mandatory. This has been resolved and users will no longer receive validation errors for Cheese Texture not being completed

  • There was an issue when creating multipack product specifications in the product editor, nutritional attributes for “Nutrition As Prepared” was only present for one component and not all components in the multipack. This has been fixed and the nutrient attributes in “Nutrition As Prepared” are present for all components in a multipack specification

  • When publishing or updating  a specification, users were prompted by their browser to stay on the page or leave the page they were on. Staying on the page would publish the specification but the user would stay in the product editor with an unresolvable validation error. This has been resolved and users will no longer receive the prompt and be directed to the specification after publishing

  • Users were presented with a 404 error when trying to publish a new specification with a future publication date. This has been resolved and users will no longer receive an error when publishing specs with future publication date

  • Manufacturer users with the role of “Editor” were not able to mark product data error alerts as “Resolved” This has been fixed so now Editor users on Manufacturer accounts can mark product error alerts as resolved after making any necessary changes to a specification

Wholesaler Users


  • Following reports from some Wholesalers that not all product codes in their product catalogue were auto stepping to the latest version of a product based on their account preferences, we have made changes to the way in which the auto stepping is triggered to ensure all codes step up when a change is made based on the account preference

Caterer Users


  • The search functionality for Recipe Builder when trying to find ingredients in the database has been optimised following reports from users of slow searches and occasional timeouts. When searching for ingredients in the Erudus database, users will no longer receive timeouts and will experience shorter wait times for search results

  • Some recipes in users libraries would not display diet suitability correctly based on the ingredients used. This has been resolved and all recipes should display diet suitability correctly

Validations

  • A validation has been added that will not allow users to set the “No Inner Component Present” attribute to “Yes” if the product is a multipack specification. If the attribute is set to “Yes” before changing the specification to a multipack, the inner component attributes will no longer be greyed out and can be filled in

New Attributes

  • An attribute has been added to declare whether or not a drink product is a sugar sweetened beverage or not. This attribute is specific to the Drinks specification type

  • An attribute has been added to declare the cheese texture of a cheese product with the options of; hard, semi hard, semi soft and soft. This attribute has been added to the Cheese specification type

  • A new “Sustainability” section has been added to the product editor with the following attributes added

            • Sustainable Soy Used?
            • Sustainable Coffee Used?
            • Sustainable Cocoa Used?
            • Sustainable Tea Used?
            • Sustainable Bananas Used?
            • Is this product in scope of the EU Deforestation Regulations?

  • The following accreditations have been added to applicable Specification Types:

            • Laid in Britain (Generic, Bakery Products, Alternatives)
            • Poultry Health Scheme (Generic, Bakery Products, Meat)
            • British Quality Wild Venison (Generic, Bakery Products, Meat)
            • Red Tractor Turkey Standards (Generic, Bakery Products, Meat)
            • Red Tractor Pork Standards (Generic, Bakery Products, Meat)
            • Red Tractor Duck Standards (Generic, Bakery Products, Meat)

  • When creating waste packaging components for specifications. Manufacturers can now declare the % of recycled material used in to make packaging component for each base material available

  • A new attribute “Fish Type” has been added to the “Fish and Seafood” specification type. This attribute is multi select from the following options
          • Oily
          • White
          • Shellfish
          • Other

  • A new attribute “Milk Classification” has been added to the “Dairy” specification type. This attribute is multi select from the following options
          • Whole
          • Semi Skimmed
          • Skimmed
          • 1% Fat
          • Organic
          • Raw

  • A new attribute “Flour Type” has been added to the “Bakery” and “Cereals” specification types. This attribute is multi select from the following options
          • Plain
          • Self Raising
          • 00 Grade
          • Wholegrain
          • Strong/Bread
          • Rye

If you have any further questions, please feel free to reach out to the Erudus support team on 0333 121 8999 or via email at support@erudus.com

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