Updating a contact deletes every other field

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I had a bright idea that I would create a contact with the main information in One Node, and then later in the workflow I would update some other fields in this case the notes field.

It appears that when I update a contact it deletes all the information that I’m not setting in the update?

In this case I have a first and last name, email and phone number in the create contacts
when I update the first and last name gets cleared.

Surely you don’t want to explicitly repeat every single field in an update?

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Hey @bally,

Looks like you may have found a bug there, I have created NODE-1166 as our internal dev ticket to get this fixed for a future release.

For now you would need to specify all the fields or use the HTTP Request node and follow the API docs to update the one field.

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Could you confirm if it is only the 1st and last name that get wiped or if anything else gets wiped?

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From what I remember it was everything for that contact.

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I thought that too but now it seems the email and phone number has stayed intact as has this custom field

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