# Recipe Properties

Once you define a recipe, you can set properties to dictate how it executes upon application start up.

In the Explorer pane, right-click the recipe and select Properties.

Choose one of the following options in the Start Up Mode drop-down box:

- None - The default setting, which indicates the recipe will not run automatically upon application start-up.
- RestoreLast - The recipe will run upon application start-up with your last saved Recipe settings.

Enabling Save By Reference will mean that it no longer saves all the data for a Configurations into a single file. This allows for customers to workaround the ~500MB recipe limit due to splitting the file. As a consequence the recipe folder contents will change.

- Without Save By Reference a recipe's folder would look like:

- With Save By Reference a recipe's folder would like:

Inside the .Blue and .Green folder you would find individual ingredients saved as separate files. e.g.