Custom recipes?

[pcace (Johannes Frölich)]

Hi there,
i am just starting to look into pollination cloud. is there any way to create custom recipes - and if there is, is there any manual / tutorial available?

Thank you so much,

pcace

[mostapha]

Hi @pcace and welcome to the forum! This should be a good starting point:

Why would I want to create my own recipe?

Hi @Max, This is one of those questions that is really critical to how and why we build Pollination that I wanted to write a longer answer - sorry that I didn’t reply last week. It seems you have already faced a case where you need to edit the recipe but here is a slightly longer answer. I will use Grasshopper analogies to make it easier to make the argument here. I wrote a longer post about how to write your own recipe here but in short there are two user-facing concepts in Pollination that ar…

That said, depending on your needs, it might be much easier to develop a custom app instead of writing a full recipe. You can use the recipes from inside an app. See this post:

Introducing Pollination Custom Apps

Hello, Pollination community! We are extremely excited to announce the support for building Pollination [custom] apps. Pollination apps will become a major part of the Pollination ecosystem and provide a new level of freedom and flexibility to prototype and build new functionalities on top of Pollination. Here is a sample app to review the results of a simulation for the LEED Option II daylight credits. You can try out this app live here! Content TL;DR (Too Long; Di…