User-defined mfr_num field name

[JuliaTruchsess]

I have a substantial number of projects that use a field called "Manufacturer's Part Number" (because that's how I roll), and it's quite a tedious chore to manually go through the schematics adding a new field that conforms to KiCost's list of acceptable field names and copying the data from my old field to the new field. It's just a string that you're going to use to look up data from an XML file - why not let the user specify whatever string they want?

Apart from that, it's awesome so far, thanks!

[hildogjr]

@JuliaTruchsess, I will mark this to solve soon. A workaround, in kicost\edas\tools.py at your installation, add a new definition to field_name_translations. Example:

Before:

field_name_translations = {
    'mpn': 'manf#',
    'pn': 'manf#',

Your definition:

field_name_translations = {
    'mpn': 'manf#',
    'Manufacturer\'s Part Number': 'manf#', ## The \' here is to scape the interpreter.
    'pn': 'manf#',

[JuliaTruchsess]

Thank you!

[hildogjr]

Use:

kicost ... --translate_fields 'Manufacturer\'s Part Number' manf#

in the call. Or type --translate_fields 'Manufacturer\'s Part Number' manf# in the "Extra commands" of the GUI, this will keep saved in the configuration.