Fusion: Does anyone know an efficient way to mark a custom field as "updated" without adding or subtracting any data? or making any changes to the value?

[RandyRoberts]

I have an automation that looks for updates to a "DE:Job Number" field and then prefixes that value to the front of the Project:name. So all projects are named "Job Number" - "Project name".

I want to find a way to do a sweep to make Fusion think the field was updated in all active projects so it will trigger this automation.

I could automate adding a dot or hyphen to the value of all open jobs and then subtracting it but that's two changes and seems like a hack. I just want Fusion to think the field was updated so it will trigger the "look for updated field" scenario.

Any ideas?

[RandyRoberts]

Would updating the job number with the job number work?

[RandyRoberts]

I did some tests and found that updating the “DE:Job number” field with the “DE:Job Number” field does not make Fusion think it has been updated. That would have been too easy.

Even adding a space to the value and then doing a trim doesn't fool it.

So I used an update record module to add a bullet ‚Ä¢ to the end of the Job Number field and then in the same scenario, I added (IF job number contains a bullet, replace the bullet with “null”, else leave it alone). That worked but now for every update, there’s two updates.

Is there a more efficient way to make Fusion think a field has been updated to trigger a watch field module?