How to easily clear a date in the date field

[Karen_Walker_Da]

I am having the most difficult time just trying to clear a date in a field where I’ve previously entered a pickup date. When that pick up gets cancelled, I simply want it to be blank once again. I’ve tried backspacing, selecting and hitting the space bar and the moment I leave the field, it is repopulated with the last entered date! I must be missing someithing simple! What am I doing wrong?

[Bill_French]

@Karen_Walker_Dawson,

When I use the delete key on a date field I get an empty date cell.

[AlliAlosa]

Is the type of the field in question an actual Date Field (as opposed to a Formula Field or a Lookup/Rollup)?

[Bill_French]

Another explanation could simply be sharing constraints. I think a table without write attributes would behave this way, maybe?

[Karen_Walker_Da]

A Date with a Time Field included.

[Karen_Walker_Da]

Maybe it’s different because this Date field has the time includes a time field option?

[Karen_Walker_Da]

Date Field with the time option turned on.

[Bill_French]

I tested that as well - worked fine for me.

Is there a possibility you’re looking at this base from an account where the base was shared to you without the ability to make changes?

Double click the field name and copy/paste what you see here.

[Karen_Walker_Da]

Thanks, but I just figured it out. Looks like, as long as I wipe out the time field first - it’s no problem to wipe out the date. If I try to wipe out the date field while there is still a time, it just keeps reappearing.

Thanks for all the assistance.

[Bill_French]

This is why I was asking if you are using the [delete] key. It wipes the entire cell - no need to specifically select and delete two separate elements of the cell.