"Easy" Import of hierarchical sheets kicad 8.99?

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Hi
I haven’t used kicad for quite a while maybe even the release of kicad 7 and now using the nightly version of 8.99 using hierarchical sheets I figured I’m not able to “Import” pints from the schematic to the sheet symbol like I used to but “sync” em with a miniwindow so first, you can’t use ++esc++ key to close the window, can’t use ++enter++ to add new pin semiauto from there,
but the main thing is that it takes a lot of clicks and unnecessary mouse movements to get each pin in place unlike how it used to be, anyidea what’s up with that or did I just miss the “import hierarchical pin” feature?

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8.99 is a work in progress. It is not stable. It is a testing program. 8.99 can’t be guaranteed to work. 8.99 will eventually become 9.0.0 next year some time.

Have you tried the current stable Kicad 8.0.4?

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I’ve came here to ask and try to figure out what is the devs direction with the thing and it is for now a workflow hikup that maybe can be tweaked a bit to make it work fine.

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I have not used V8.99 yet, but also, time of developers is a very scarce resource of the KiCad project, and I would rather have them working on new features then explaining to users how these features might be going to work. There are just over 300 open issues on gitlab with “hierarchical” in the title. You should be able to find which of those discussions are relevant to this new feature relatively quickly yourself.

https://gitlab.com/groups/kicad/-/issues/?sort=created_asc&state=opened&in=TITLE&search=hierarchical&first_page_size=100

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Sounds like maybe this bug? Cursor mode (undefined?) after placement of hierarchical label via Sync Sheet Pins function (#17703) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab

If so, consider giving it a “thumbs up” to show that it also impacts your usage.

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Actually I didn’t use the part feature correctly and the problemt was down to the unit indexing
where by default the first unit you spawn into is numbered 0 instead of 1 for A and 2 for B requiring renumbering the unit index variable of schematic elements manually according to the intended corresponding unit and won’t change automatically according to the app set “schematic unit space”