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                | DanWiggins
  
 
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                      |  Posted - 13 Aug 2020 :  16:32:50     
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                      | Went in to create a new template, saved it so I could try it.  Didn't work, so I went back to BOM Composer to try it again and now there are NO templates around. 
 Go to the "Default Templates" directory - nothing there.  Everything was blitz.
 
 Using V22 of EasyPC.
 
 In general, I've found BOMs to be the Achilles heel of EasyPC.  They are, put simply, terrible.  I cannot get them ever to work right.  I want a BOM where every component has its own line (yes, that means sometimes I'll have 15 lines with the exact same part listed), and it also dumps out the custom values I put in (I use DPN - the Digikey Part Number).
 
 Never been able to make that work, ever - and now my BOM Composer is completely borked.  Do I need to re-install?
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                | edrees
    
 
                United Kingdom799 Posts
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                      |  Posted - 13 Aug 2020 :  16:52:28       
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                      | I think there was a major improvement to the OUTPUT =>BOM Composer in V23. 
 Previously, I used my own custom template in OUTPUT=>Reports but it tool me a long time to optimize the template file to get the format the way I wanted, but I did get there in the end.
 
 Nowadays, I just use the improved BOM Composer, import it into Excel (or rather Calc in Open Office) to tweak it to exactly as I require.
 
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                | Iain Wilkie
     
 
                United Kingdom1022 Posts
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                      |  Posted - 14 Aug 2020 :  09:00:43       
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                      | Same as you Ed .... the old reports method was really awkward to set up, so I like yourself always use the BOM Composer which I have to say is a breeze to use. 
 Iain
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