Populate Issuer Fields in Reference Data Center Securities

The Issuer field is considered a special field within the Reference Data Center.  To select a new value or overwrite data other than in the drop-down box, use the Select Issuers dialog to populate the field.

To populate an Issuer field using the Select Issuers dialog:

1. From within the Edit Securities window, right click on the Overwrite field.
   You see the Overwrite dialog.
2. In the New Value field, to select a value or overwrite data other than in the drop-down box, click the ellipses next to the drop-down.
   You see the Select Issuers dialog.
3. Enter part or all of the Issuer ID or Issuer Name in the search box and then click Search.
   The dialog redisplays with the results of your search. 
4. Select the issuer by checking on the corresponding check box. 
5. You can also select the Make this My Default Search by clicking the corresponding checkbox.
6. Click Apply to close the window and then click Save.
   You see the value displayed in the Issuer field.

• In step 2 – I think the instructions should clarify that if you want to use the free form to override the Issuer value (instead of the ellipses), that you need to populate the Issuer id, instead of issuer name. The reason questions originally came up surrounding this field is because when clients try to override an issuer, they will likely try to type in something like “General Electric” (instead of issuer id “001367960”) which would then populate an error stating that “no data exists”. Clients typically use the free form by default if they know exactly what they want to type in because its faster. However, most clients won’t know that they need to type in Issuer id which I think is really what we want to make clear in this article.