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Devices in a field (inserted with the Insert Field tool) 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. The key is the order in which the fields are drawn. The last field "wins".
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. More specifically, the last operation should be to insert the field to which you want the symbols to belong.
Choose "rename existing symbols" when drawing the outer field last. Then move the inner field away and back again to rename the devices in the inner field with the Installation and Location of the inner field.
Keywords: symbol, assignP/S: 34230, 500000061023