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You shouldn't need the fields as part of the block definition, thats redundant.... no? I'd make everything NOT intended to be controlled by the sheetsetmanager in a block definition and everything else as mtext (or dtext).
i initially desired to have a block/xref for borders with everything in it and soon learned what you are now learning... there's no need to have fields bound into a block :-)... but if you do it, as long as all the fields point the correct place you can explode a block and it'll adopt the attributes, that's pretty impossible to do with borders/sheets because a sheet typically has both field types SHEETSETCUSTOM and SHEETCUSTOM....
short answer, avoid fields in blocks you don't intend to explode 
EDIT: we have a dwg file saved as dwt file with all the title block fields linked to a "blank" sheet set and use the dwt and the example sheet set to get desired results.... it is quite tricky though.
I respectfully disagree with your assesment of SSM and block attributes. The intent of SSM is to control fields primarily in attributes as well as text objects.
You may wish to investigate the BlockPlaceHolder because in you own work flow you are manually assigning SSM fields directly to dtext or MTEXT, presumably to reference one sheet from another in a callout. See Detail <X> on draing <Y>, and View port titles and scale. The BPH is designed to do just that( ever wonder what the View tab is for? Keeps track of your plan callouts.). I suggest you get a hold of the White paper "Sheets Happen"
The use of SSM in Blocks and text is only limited by the users imagination.
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Sure thing.
I'm not sure I understand how/why your BMP approach to drawin composition effects the use of SSM? SSM doesn't care.
You use SSM, right?
I'm not sure I understand how/why your BMP approach to drawin composition effects the use of SSM? SSM doesn't care.
You use SSM, right?
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Very common practice.
All that gobaltgook about levels vault yadayad is great to know and does not sound all that different than xrefing my data set. That includes my title block
If I may ask how exactly do you use SSM in your work flow for filling out sheet info? And when do you insert field directly from SSM? I ask because I think we are talking about the same thing and this "TitleBlock" talk is confusing the discussion.
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Yes, as I thought - we are not proposing to insert the "Border Frame in as a block, only the fields. You see the "block" is not the border frame but a collection of attributes that are inserted in the layout, or resides in the template layout for pulling in - same as you. And the benifit of the attributes are many. And not to say yours is wrong - its not. with the attributes the block can be made dynamic to fit any size or client specific border that gets xrefed in instead of having several layout templates. Only a matter of preference but the big difference is with the attributes if you had to extract information from the border for another document it can be done with dtext not as easy.
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Take a look at the attached files.
The title block is inserted as a block. All the fields are in ATTRIBUTES. The attributes are setup (in the block editor) with the Default Value being the field.
P.S. You will need to change the sheet properties so that it can find the dwg file in its new location.
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