Semantic problem with KiCad component treatment?

[retiredfeline]

@Andy_P

That “add field” thing is wonky, and not really useful. I just tried it. I added a field Foo, with the expectation that it would add that field to all of the symbols in the design. It didn’t add it to any of them. A new column for that field is added in the Symbol Fields Table, though.

I put a value in that field in the table for a part. I clicked the “Apply” button, then closed the dialog with OK, then checked that part, and yep, there’s the new field with the value I entered.

As you have dscovered it only adds the field for the symbols where you fill in the field. If you were populating the schematic from an enhanced DB where parts have IDs then the field would be filled in.

Users should not push the contents of the part field back to the library, that’s the job of the librarian.