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Issue:

If you are trying to paste down a blueprint such as a mall that has parameterized sections and you don't have the tech reaserched, you can't choose that as an option at all, even with the "Show all items in selection lists" enabled.

This means that for the options that the blueprint suggests, you can't pre-plan your mall.

Example:

Here I have selected in the options "show all items in the selection lists"



and I place down a blueprint that asks me for gun turrets (which I have) and laser turrets (which I don't have researched)



I am unable to select lasers and won't be able to future plan my mall / blueprint.

Solution:

I think this is an oversite as you already added "Show all items in selection lists" to prevent this kind of issue of people seeing items that they shouldn't see. Have it so if you have it enabled you can select all items for parameterization should fix the issue.