Maintain custom fields by default when replacing
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Spencer McFarlane
It would be invaluable to have the option to maintain custom fields when replacing items by default. The current default checkbox is that it doesn't, and it resets every time you replace. This has led to many occasions where I replace an item with notes in the custom fields, and the data is overwritten.
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Naresh Nichani
Spencer McFarlane Kevin Frye
We have already have an option to persist in Project Settings.
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Spencer McFarlane
Naresh Nichani Wow! I completely missed that. Thank you very much.
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Kevin Frye
My concern here is that custom fields are often used in a part-specific way. Instead of assuming this is the default, which I expect is actually the edge case, we should offer settings to capture a default and repeatable behavior.
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Spencer McFarlane
Kevin Frye I was wondering about that. Maybe it could remember the last state of the replacement settings. That way, if you have a set of items that need replacing with specific parameters, it will remember that until changed. It's the same thing with updating items from the catalog; the fields to be updated are reset for each item.