It may be that all the boxes I checked to share ingredients finally caught up...I'll have to check to see if everything on my list is coming up. Maybe I'll put in a new test item that I can track to see what's going on.

Yeah...checked to see whether all inventory items showed up as before and, no...I had gone through and toggled the contribute function on most everything so that must be what's showing up. Unless it's shared with the main fermentables list and one of the admins or coders adds it into the data base, it's still stranded.
Well, it's better than nothing, I guess. There's still hope that the Beta will go live at some point and fix some of the mess.

 

The things in my inventory that I set up to contribute to the fermentables show up in the fermentables drop down. And those items appear as regular fermentables without all the superfluous custom fermentables information clogging the space in the recipe calculator and sort as they're supposed to just like regular fermentables.They didn't for the longest time even though I toggled and toggled several weeks ago.
There are items in my inventory that don't show up in the fermentables drop-down and those are ones that I haven't toggled to contribute.
Before all this, inventory items, including custom fermentables appeared in the drop down without doing anything. I was thinking that the Beta version had gone back to this way of doing things, but it's not the case...anything that doesn't eventually find it's way into the global fermentables list with the contribute function toggled still has to be dealt with as a custom fermentable through the special inventory button on the recipe editor.
No problem. That's just the way it is now and if the contributed fermentables in my inventory are actually showing up in the drop-down, I can live with that. It just looks like it takes a long time between activating the contribute function on an inventory item and having it show up in the drop-down.
It seems workable and functional at this point.
Thanks.

 

Here's an example...I've got my local malts from Blacklands in my inventory (entered as Custom Fermentables). They didn't show up in the regular fermentables drop-down until quite some time after I toggled the contribute function but now they do.
One of the Blacklands malts, Silver Star, doesn't show up in the fermentables and I'm assuming that I didn't toggle the contribute function. If I want to add that to a recipe, it can be accessed through the inventory button and shows up as a custom fermentable with the full info (still wish that could just go away) and it doesn't sort with the rest of the fermentables.
Try adding a custom fermentable to your inventory and then try to put it into a recipe and you'll see what I mean.

I've just toggled the contribute function on that Silver Star malt and I'll monitor whether and when it shows up in the regular fermentables drop-down.

 

Yeah, I noticed that, too. I had given up on them actually being on the list, but then they seem to have appeared after some time had passed.

Update...I toggled one on this afternoon that hadn't been on the list and now it seems to come up on the list. Much sooner than all the others seem to have done. Progress, I suppose,
@Yooper

 

I now seem to have multiples of the same malt in the drop down. Also, the malts don't show up for inventory deduction in the brew session unless they're pulled from the inventory button, not the drop down list.
Whatever...I'm over caring about it.
I'll just expect the quirks and glitches to keep on coming and maybe it'll settle into something that I can figure out.

 

Pretty much says it all...

 

What appears to have happened is that there are now 2 solutions to the problem of including inventory items. In Beta I now have duplicates of items held in inventory and then those items appear below that in regular drop-down. For my own personal preferences, my inventory doesn't need to appear in the global malt list, just mine. The inventory section at the top of the list covers that (sort of like it used to be). Now that they've been contributed, can they be un-contributed?
As for the duplicate entries on some inventory items, that's a mystery. I didn't check to see whether either or both duplicates would be deducted in the brew function. I'll try to include a screen shot here...I still can never get pics from Dropbox to work.
Nope... here's a link
BF inventory list.jpg (file://USER1-PC/Users/user%201/Dropbox/Public/BF%20inventory%20list.jpg)

 

Duh...I've been trying to upload every photo with the URl since that seemed to be the only option.
And the format seems to hate Dropbox.
@Yooper