Schematic doesn't get updated

[FantomXR]

Hey,
again the plugin is great. But its not working properly at my side. I'm working on Mac.
While the graphical issues have been solved which is great, I now have the problem, that the plugin does not update the schematic.

Here is what I do:
I open up the board (schematic is closed). I open up the plugin. I select a part and toggle BOM. If I open the part inside the board, I can now see that the BOM has been toggled. So far so good.
Now I do "Export to schematic" to write the new settings to the schematic.

If I now open the schematic, the new settings have not been overtaken and if I update now the board from the schematic, the new setting gets overwritten by the schematic.

Same is valid for other things like LSCS part number... I guess this is valid for all settings.

Is my workflow wrong?

Thanks,
Chris

[Bouni]

Hi,

the export to schematic function s kind of hacky. KiCAD does not provide a proper API to write to the schematic.
They intended to come up with such an API for V7 but postponed it for V8.
But I doubt that it will make it in V8 as I've not seen even a early alpha of said API.

I cannot inverst time in a feature that is about to be changed anyway soon.

My workflow is to add LCSC numbers manually to the schematic. I totally see that this makes a large part of the plugin kind of useless, but my spare time is so limitid that we will have to live with that until the API lands.

Sorry that I cannot provide a more satisfying solution ...

[John-Titor]

Thanks for sharing details about the situation here; it makes perfect sense. Looking at the code, it seems like there are three property names (LCSC, LCSC_PN, JLC_PN?) that are supported, though only LCSC is added if they don't exist.

Is the correct workaround here to manually add an LCSC property to schematic entities with the LCSC part number? That's almost too easy...