I can confirm that default fields only get added when the symbol is edited AND the default field’s value is non-empty. So it doesn’t seem to me that the proposed patch would pollute existing BOMs. Or am I missing something?
Seth’s comment regarding localisation is an issue, though, as we don’t currently translate default fields. > On 22 May 2018, at 17:53, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
