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[Borge]

I am trying to make my clothing industry as efficient as possible, but my miller seems to always favor milling sweet pods rather than dimple cups despite the fact i have a dimple cup stockpile right next to the millstone. It's unfortunate you cannot change a workshop profile to mill only certain items, maybe in Dwarf Fortress 2016, in the meantime is there a workaround i can use that will keep my cloth industry efficient? I have no use for dwarven sugar, my food supply of lavish meals is already insane with eggs, fish and meat.

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[Orange Wizard]

Set the stockpile to give to the appropriate workshop. I can't remember the keys involved, but in the stockpile's [q] menu, there should be an option to "give to workshop".

[Borge]

Set the stockpile to give to the appropriate workshop. I can't remember the keys involved, but in the stockpile's [q] menu, there should be an option to "give to workshop".

Excellent thankyou, i have also burrowed my miller into this area. Hopefully he won't starve or sleep on the floor inside the burrow, maybe i'll make him a joining bedroom and assign him to an inactive workers union squad so he fills a backpack and waterskin to eat and drink on the job. Maximum efficiency!

[wlmartin]

Or failing that
Make a stockpile of JUST the item you want milled next to the workshop and without any further direction Urist McMiller will pick that before looking for anything else

[Panando]

To mill a specific plant you need both a plant stockpile and a furniture (bag/box set to bag materials) stockpile set to give to the mill.

[Bumber]

Or failing that
Make a stockpile of JUST the item you want milled next to the workshop and without any further direction Urist McMiller will pick that before looking for anything else

That might depend on what's closest to the dwarf, not the workshop.

[Quitschi]

It is actually documented in the wiki:
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Quern
The stockpile with give to workshop order is the way to go.

[Loci]

Well, the easiest way to prevent the milling of sweet pods is to stop growing sweet pods.

[Niddhoger]

Well, the easiest way to prevent the milling of sweet pods is to stop growing sweet pods.

Dwarven syrup (from sweet pods) can be processed into a very expensive food ingredient for your fort.  Combine dwarven syrup with whip vine flour with even an unskilled cook... and you are looking at insanely high priced meals.  Each unit is worth 20 (equal to Hydra meat), and whip vine flour is 25 (dragon meat is 30). 

A cooking overhaul is seriously overdue.  I shouldn't be able to take an untrained cook and EASILY whip out 15k+ in prepared meals before the first caravan with nothing but what I grow/pick from shrubs/fish/hunt in a few months.  Legendary cook? ....maybe.  Cook starting from 0? HELL NO.

As has been said... make a stockpile that ONLY accepts dimple cups (or blade weed, silver barb, and hide root) next to your quern/mill and have it "take" from your plant stockpile near your farms.  You can add in flour plants as well... but your dwarf will freely pick between the two.  For better control you would have to make another quern with its own dwarven flour/whip vine/hemp/etc only stockpile near it to force your dwarves to only mill flour or only mill dye.  These would need to be some distance from each other, though, to prevent confusing your millers.
 

[greycat]

For better control you would have to make another quern with its own dwarven flour/whip vine/hemp/etc only stockpile near it to force your dwarves to only mill flour or only mill dye.  These would need to be some distance from each other, though, to prevent confusing your millers.

It might confuse the player, but the Dwarves won't be any more confused than they always are.

I have been eschewing dyes for a long time now, but if I were going to use a 2-quern setup like you describe here, I'd want them fairly close to each other, so they can share a bag stockpile.  (They'd each have a dedicated quernable plant stockpile of course.)

[arbarbonif]

There is also a DFHack script that lets you control what inputs are used by a job, based on what is legal for that job.  I haven't tried it with the new release, but it works pretty well in the old one.