What is the use of erased_fields=true in REST API ?

When you delete a record Sugar does not remove the records from the DB immediately, rather it marks them with a field: deleted = 1

Those records are then truly purged when the scheduler to remove them runs, I believe that out of the box it's set to run once a month.

The "erased_fields = true" includes those records with deleted = 1 in the result set.

FrancescaS

Thank you for your response. Francesca Shiekh

Hi Francesca Shiekh & Gurpreet Singh,

I believe erased_fields has do with PII in the Data Privacy features of Sugar, not with returning soft deleted records. What the actual flag in the API query achieves is something I am not clear on, but that is the only feature I know of that uses terminology similar to this. My best guess is that, when enabled, it would return an indicator whether a particular field's contents were erased as part of a data privacy action.

Chris

Ah, that makes more sense.