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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> Perhaps one feature request regarding custom fields would be (if possible)
> to select which field is used for grouping components, instead of just the
> value field. Either a custom field or one of the standard ones like
> footprint name or symbol name. Think editing all 0402 resistors, or all the
> connectors with the same footprint but different value, etc.


The default behaviour is that *all* fields must match for two components to
be considered "equal".

I have added an option for each column to be removed from this check, so
you can specify as many (or as few) columns as you like.

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 11:50 PM, José Ignacio <jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Perhaps one feature request regarding custom fields would be (if possible)
> to select which field is used for grouping components, instead of just the
> value field. Either a custom field or one of the standard ones like
> footprint name or symbol name. Think editing all 0402 resistors, or all the
> connectors with the same footprint but different value, etc.
>
> Thank you very much for your excellent work!
> Jose
>
> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Oliver Walters <
> oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Steven,
>>
>> Unless you mean something different to what I think "custom fields"
>> means, then this is already the case - any extra fields (beyond REFERENCE /
>> FOOTPRINT / DATSHEET / VALUE) are preesnt to be edited in the table...
>>
>> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Strontium <strntydog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Oliver,
>>>
>>> Just had a chance to check out your component table viewer, its nice.
>>> Great work.
>>>
>>> Is it on your roadmap to be able to view/edit a components custom fields?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Steven
>>>
>>> On 03/05/17 05:35, Oliver Walters wrote:
>>>
>>>> Wayne,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for merging!
>>>>
>>>> I will address those points at some stage - there are other ideas I
>>>> have too but I thought it was better to get the first iteration done and
>>>> make incremental improvements.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Oliver
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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