If you like this following suggestion, then you should vote for this ER. Go to the customer portal, then click on Enhancement Requests under the My Support header. Do a search for "popup BOM", and click on the link to vote for it. This has gotten the attention of the development team, but they need votes from the ER system to give it priority. So if you like this, help me get it some priority.

SolidWorks has done a good job of getting rid of all the pop-ups. Especially around the 2007-2009 timeframe, we went from being constantly barraged with pop-up windows, to almost never having to use them.

I appreciate that, I think it really helps smooth my workflow. Here is another option that I would like to see changed to remove a pop-up that I frequently see, and often gets in my way. It is the "lined value" pop-up that shows when you edit a cell in a BOM.

This pop-up shows up when you edit a cell that is linked to a property of the part file it references. I often want to keep the link. Unfortunately, I don't always want to keep the link, occasionally I will want to override the description written in the part file for one that is more appropriate for the assembly it is in. If I were just to check "don't ask me again", I would never be able to break the link.

With the below example of my proposed functionality, I would like for a default action to happen, and then have a toggle (button) to switch between the two. The default action should be whatever was previously selected. This way every time I edit a cell in a BOM it doesn't give me a pop-up that I have to click through.

Here is an example of how I think it could look. The two icons in the right of the cell show a "linked" description, and a "not-linked" description. It would be a toggle, so only one of the icons would be visible, and toggle to the other when you click on it.