On 5/22/2018 12:43 PM, Jeff Young wrote: >> It should output all fields defined in schematic symbols regardless if >> each optional field is defined in every symbol. If they are outputting >> anything other than that, I would consider this a bug. > > I had trouble parsing this. Are you saying that the list of output fields > should be the union of all fields which have a value somewhere (but excluding > default fields which are uniformly blank)?
Yes. It should be the equivalent of a logical OR. If a field exists in a single symbol, it should get added to the BOM. > > As it stands in 5.0, default fields don’t get pushed to symbols unless the > symbol is edited. At that point I’m not sure if they’re all pushed, or only > those with values. > It used to be that fields only get saved when they are added to the symbol using the edit symbol properties dialog. That code has changed a lot since it was originally written so I cannot confirm this. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
