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[Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikkonen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 10:40 AM Lorenzo Marcantonio
<l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Since there is no population variation for schematics (hint hint :D)

https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2131 (hint hint :D)

> Is there already some plan or idea to handle this?

I wonder if you could utilize sheet variables (text/string replacement
variables) which is a new feature. You can add a Field to sheet
instance Properties and then use it with ${} syntax in symbol fields.
It resolves the variable for the generated BOM, too.

Eeli Kaikkonen