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Devices in a field that is surrounded by another field adopt the installation and location of the outer field.
This is intentional behavior.If a field is drawn to surround an existing field on a schematic page, the devices in the inner field will adopt the Installation and Location of the outer field if the "Rename existing symbols to the Inst./Loc. of the field" check box is set on the Field Parameters dialog when the outer field is drawn.
Inner fields do not "protect" devices from the renaming process initiated by the creation of an outer field. This is to avoid performance issues caused by the potential for many layers of nested fields and large amounts of affected devices. Previous versions of promis.e also worked this way.
Instead of creating the outer field(s) last, below are some alternate workflows:
Create the outer field first and then the inner field.
Choose not to "rename existing symbols" when drawing the outer field last. Then, to make the Installation and Location of the outer field apply to some symbols, set "Adjust device ID when symbol(s) is moved" on Options > Project Options > Display Formats, move the desired symbols, then move them back.
Choose "rename existing symbols" when drawing the outer field last. Then move the inner field and back to rename the devices in the inner field with the Installation and Location of the inner field.
Keywords: symbol, assignP/S: 34230, 500000061023