Default manufacturer's part number field in KiCad libraries

[kasbah]

I made a request for comment on the KiCad dev mailing list to and a standard MPN field: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg27021.html

[TwoSpoons]

@SembazuruCDE

In Eeschema’s Schematic Editor Options there is a tab called Template Field Names. In this is where you can define for the schematic you are working on a whole plethora of custom fields that will be auto generated (and populated if you define the Default Value) whenever you go to edit a schematic part.

Dammit! I wish I’d seen this 6 months ago. Its just what I’ve been looking for - a way to globally add fields to my projects! It nicely renders the need for default fields in the library moot.
BUT - it would be good to have a community wide naming convention for common fields, to facilitate the creation of add-on scripts for BOM handling, etc.
(And I want to offer a huge thankyou to those people writing and publishing their scripts.)