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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.