Thank you Clemens and Kevin for your responses. Clemens, you raise that you are not happy with hard-coding fields at all because there is no standard way to do it. But KiCad’s symbols already come with a datasheet field for instance. To me, the datasheet field is way less useful than an MPN field. In any case we are trying to come up with a better, standard way to do it, what's the problem with that?
You then go on to describe your method and say you have no use case for it. That’s fair enough but I think its clean that I and a few other people *do* have a use case. Furthermore, the proposal, if implemented, shouldn’t affect your way of working at all. Kevin, you say that this would not work for generic components like resistors and capacitors. I don’t think I was clear enough: the proposal is to add a standard MPN field to schematic symbols to be populated *when they are part of a schematic*, i.e. their values (and tolerances etc) have been assigned. Really we are talking about the schematic format. Your alternative system is interesting but* is* a bit more complicated. Standardizing on an MPN field is something existing tooling could make use of very quickly but with yours they would have to change their way of working quite substantively. I think further discussion of your proposal is a separate point and should continue in another thread. All the best, Kaspar
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