In Changing the unchangeable - a power symbol's value we concluded that despite advice within the software that “Power symbol value field text cannot be changed”, it was in fact changeable and this was a fine thing to do with no concerns on the horizon.
Now, shortly after that thread auto-locked, I find that is no longer true! Can anyone confirm that at least in v7.0.5, this functionality has changed? I’m no longer able to change the symbol value text of a symbol instance using the methods that worked for me in v7.0.0.
There remains one effective method - in the Symbol Editor, after dismissing the Properties dialog, I can edit the value field directly on the symbol. As long as I don’t return to the Properties dialog, the change sticks.
I feel like I’m running out of loop holes. Is it time I rid my practices of this assumption that value can be different to name?
