Experimental Library.kicad_sym (296.1 KB)
Here is a (maybe stupid??) but easy experiment (attached). I made a copy of my op amp symbol library and opened it with Notepad text editor.
Then I used “replace all”:
I replaced “footprint” with “pawprint” and “datasheet” with “vendor_propaganda”. No serious comments intended. 
Does this do any good?
This took me maybe 2 minutes…
What are you trying to do? Batch-editing of the symbol lib (fields) or editing of the schematic symbol/part fields contents/field names?
Are you aware that within the table of symbol fields (schematic) you can mark cells and use copy & paste actions to move whole columns to other columns? Or edit/import/map data fields in external spreadsheets like Calc/Excel and copy it back? Previous you can decide about sorting/grouping or adding new fields/columns.
BOM or the Bill of materials from KiCad is awful, because library data is awful. So, I want edit library fields or record either in bulk or one by one. I noticed that Copy/paste works atleast partially, so that helps.
Excel import/export would be nice too. Excel export import would be easier to make in KiCad, and editing is already possible in Excel. (Careless editing of Excel rows would be great way to really make mess of the libraries)
I added current library view and something better.
You use generic connectors. There is no lib part information for this type of elements. It is not intended IMO. The normal workflow is to copy generic parts in own libs and set some needed information for your personal use case.
Why don’t you copy and paste the data from Field4…8 into the named fields? You can select several cells (line and colums). After that you can delete the fields not needed anymore.
I am not asking anyone else to fill records of my libraries. I’ll do it my self. The problem is uneven structure of KiCad’s libraries, which I have to clean and edit. Copy/paste works, but I hope the information is accurate when field name is something like FieldXX. A lot of work.
Not sure what this means. If possible, could you add a little detail.
Same for me. I’m unsure what the problem is.
Could someone please confirm these FieldXX names? Where are they from? From the KiCad lib?
Manually added information can be added in freely definable fieldnames. In the general options user-defined global fieldnames could be set. If part info should be reusable you should copy parts in user libs and extend the fields.
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