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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/17/2013 10:17 AM, Miguel Angel Ajo wrote:
> Hi!, thanks!, 
> 
> Yesterday I was struggling through the same problem trying to generate
> some documentation for a project we must assemble & deliver soon.
> 
> I still miss some fields (user inserted) that we (Tome Verissimo, hi!) 
> include in the schematic parts, like supplier codes, etc..
> 
> At this moment, the .csv BOM generator can build a CSV with user fields,
> but if you have variable fields in your parts
> 
> part1:
>    field_name_A: "aaa content"
>    field_name_X: "xxx content"
> 
> 
> part2:
>    field_name_A: "aaa content"
>    field_name_B: "bob content"
>    field_name_X: "xxx content"
> 
> 
> the field names get lost in export, and the the columns move back and forth across the rows.
> 
> So I was thinking to add an extra .CSV writer that takes care of this, and, may be even
> some kind of json writer, that writes a dictionary that can be used for
> interoperability/scripts.


Do not do that.

Read chapter 14 of the eeschema.pdf

The made an hour ago.