Clear Field Indicator

The clear field indicator allows you to specify whether to treat a field in the parent object as null when performing an update from an external system. When an update is performed in the master index application, empty fields typically do not overwrite the value of an existing field. You can specify to nullify a field that already has an existing value in the master index application by entering an indicator in that field. This indicator is specified by the clear field indicator. By default, the clear field indicator is set to double-quotes (“”), so if a field is set to double-quotes, that field will be blanked out in the master index if the incoming record has a field value of null and the record being updated has a field value other than null. If you do not want to use this feature, set the clear field indicator to null.