MDM Import Manager - remove multiple values from a multi valued fiedl

Hi,
We have this multi-valued field and we would like to clean the values from it.
How can we do this using MDM Import Manager?
Example:
Article A
Field XPTO has values Z, T and P.
We want this field XPTO with no values. How can we do a mass actualization to clean the field for some articles?
Thanks and regards,
Maria

*We have this multi-valued field and we would like to clean the values from it.
How can we do this using MDM Import Manager?
Example:
Article A
Field XPTO has values Z, T and P.
We want this field XPTO with no values. How can we do a mass actualization to clean the field for some articles?*
Hi Maria,
There can be multiple ways to achieve this -
1.After doing field mapping for XPTO you can set conversion filter for each of the values.
2.Value map with NULL.
3.Trigger a Workflow on import/record add,run assignment and make that field NULL.
4.Run mass update for conditional assignment based on that value of XPTO.
There can be more ways,whichever suits you best you can go ahead with that.
Hope it helped
Regards,
Ravi

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