Plans
The Plans screen is where you define roast targets before stepping in front of the machine. A Plan sets the coffee you’ll use, the machine you’ll roast on, and any weight targets you want to track.
You can open Plans from the main navigation.
What you see
Section titled “What you see”The Plans page is a table of every Plan you have saved, one row per Plan. By default the Plans you roasted, used or edited most recently come first.
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Name | The Plan’s name |
| Coffee | The green coffee assigned, or each Coffee Line of a blend |
| Machine | The Plan’s Machine |
| Batch size | The charge weight the Plan targets |
| Target loss | The weight loss target, if you entered one |
| Roasts | How many times you have roasted the Plan in Rostoc |
| Last roasted | When you last roasted it, or Never |
Roasts and Last roasted count only roasts recorded in Rostoc; a roast imported from another app does not. Click any row to open the full Plan — its Reference Curve, batch history, and the statistics from every roast run against it. In the desktop app, the … at the end of a row holds Open in Roast Studio, Edit plan, and the two reference curve imports, the same menu as on the Plan’s page.
Sort, search and filter
Section titled “Sort, search and filter”Click the Name, Batch size, Roasts or Last roasted header to sort the whole list by it, and click again to reverse it. Roasts and Last roasted sort the highest and the latest first.
Above the table:
- Search plans finds a Plan by its name, its coffee or its notes.
- Coffee and Machine show only the Plans for one coffee or one Machine.
- Last roasted shows the Plans last roasted between two dates. A Plan you have never roasted counts by the date you created it.
Clear Filters brings the whole list back. A line above the table says how many Plans match, and the list loads more as you scroll, however many Plans you have.
The columns icon at the end of that line (its tooltip reads Columns) chooses which columns the table shows. Your choice follows your account, so it is the same on every computer and in the web app. The other tables in Rostoc, such as Coffee lines, Lots, Orders and a Plan’s roasts, have the same icon.
Create a plan
Section titled “Create a plan”Click Create Plan to open the create form. Give the plan a name, then set your targets: how much green coffee you’ll charge and your expected weight loss percentage if you track it.
Choosing a Machine and a Green Coffee is optional but worth doing. A new plan starts on the Machine that is connected, else your default, else your only one. The plan’s Machine is the one Rostoc roasts it on; if a different Machine is connected when you start, Rostoc asks which to use (see Plan Details). The green coffee links the plan to your inventory, so every Batch recorded against the plan automatically deducts from the relevant Lots. For blends, each Coffee Line deducts proportionally.
You can assign a single Green Coffee or configure a blend of multiple Coffee Lines. If you use a blend, set a percentage for each Coffee Line and make sure the total is 100%.
Add any working notes in the Notes field; they travel with the plan and are visible every time you open it.
Click Save to add the plan to your library.
Create a plan from a roast
Section titled “Create a plan from a roast”Already roasted this coffee in Artisan or Cropster? Start the plan from that roast. Use Start from a roast file at the bottom left of the create form, or the … menu beside Create Plan and choose From Artisan or From Cropster. Pick the exported file: the create form opens large on the roast’s own curve, drawn as it will be on the plan. Rostoc fills in the plan’s name, charge weight and weight loss from the roast (anything you’ve already typed stays). Pick the green coffee yourself.
When you save, the roast becomes the plan’s Reference Curve, and the plan opens. The roast keeps its own name and date and is marked imported; it does not count as a roast you recorded in Rostoc. Until you have a plan of your own, the Plans page offers both ways to start — the sample plans don’t count — and so does the plan step of the setup checklist.
A file exported from Rostoc itself is refused: to reuse one of your Rostoc roasts as a reference, star it in the plan’s roast list. See Plan Details.
Roast without a plan
Section titled “Roast without a plan”A roast doesn’t need a plan, and the Plans page has no button for one. To start a Batch without pre-defining targets, use Open Roast Studio on Home, or Start Roast on Batches.