Answers.Body: <p>I believe this a previous discussed issue even with an unmerged pull request on the Feed Me GitHub to allow this behaviour.</p>
  <p><a href="https://github.com/craftcms/feed-me/issues/797" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/craftcms/feed-me/issues/797</a></p>
  <p>You can potentially implement this without forking the entire plugin using the FeedMe field parsing events example in that issue:</p>
  <p><a href="https://github.com/craftcms/feed-me/issues/797#issuecomment-977858260" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/craftcms/feed-me/issues/797#issuecomment-977858260</a></p>
  <p>You'll need to add this to a module that's bootstrapped to your site, but using the field parsing events should work, until it is potentially accepted upstream as a configurable option or allows the behaviour to work.</p>
  <p>Edit: Per more recent events. FeedMe now directly implements this solution directly, the original answer is no longer accurate, but left as in for context.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: This was implemented as a setting per feed! March of 2023 https://github.com/craftcms/feed-me/issues/797#issuecomment-1474401559
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Answers.Text: @AlexKendrick Thanks! I've amended my original answer with a note, for clarity.
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Body: <p>I would like to import and update Entries using a FeedMe, based on a remote JSON file.
  Sometimes, the fields are filled, sometimes not.</p>
  <p>I would like FeedMe to update these fields if they are empty in the JSON. But currently, these blank values are skipped instead of replaced.</p>
  <p>For special field like Date/Time field, I need a true blank value, not the current date.</p>
  <p>Is this possible at this time? If so, how can I do?</p>
  
Tags: <plugin-feedme>
Title: FeedMe: how to update some Entries' fields with blank data?
ThreadText: # FeedMe: how to update some Entries' fields with blank data?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2022-06-23)
  
  I would like to import and update Entries using a FeedMe, based on a remote JSON file.
  Sometimes, the fields are filled, sometimes not.
  
  I would like FeedMe to update these fields if they are empty in the JSON. But currently, these blank values are skipped instead of replaced.
  
  For special field like Date/Time field, I need a true blank value, not the current date.
  
  Is this possible at this time? If so, how can I do?
  
  **Tags:** plugin-feedme
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2022-06-23. Score: 2
  
  I believe this a previous discussed issue even with an unmerged pull request on the Feed Me GitHub to allow this behaviour.
  
  <https://github.com/craftcms/feed-me/issues/797>
  
  You can potentially implement this without forking the entire plugin using the FeedMe field parsing events example in that issue:
  
  <https://github.com/craftcms/feed-me/issues/797#issuecomment-977858260>
  
  You'll need to add this to a module that's bootstrapped to your site, but using the field parsing events should work, until it is potentially accepted upstream as a configurable option or allows the behaviour to work.
  
  Edit: Per more recent events. FeedMe now directly implements this solution directly, the original answer is no longer accurate, but left as in for context.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: This was implemented as a setting per feed! March of 2023 https://github.com/craftcms/feed-me/issues/797#issuecomment-1474401559  
  > **username_1**: @username_2 Thanks! I've amended my original answer with a note, for clarity.  
  
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