diff --git a/metadata-io/src/main/java/com/linkedin/metadata/search/transformer/SearchDocumentTransformer.java b/metadata-io/src/main/java/com/linkedin/metadata/search/transformer/SearchDocumentTransformer.java
index dd36f0a9456a7..bff6ebdd317c4 100644
--- a/metadata-io/src/main/java/com/linkedin/metadata/search/transformer/SearchDocumentTransformer.java
+++ b/metadata-io/src/main/java/com/linkedin/metadata/search/transformer/SearchDocumentTransformer.java
@@ -287,8 +287,10 @@ public void setSearchableValue(
           .forEach(
               fieldValue -> {
                 String[] keyValues = fieldValue.toString().split("=");
-                String key = keyValues[0];
-                String value = keyValues[1];
+                String key = keyValues[0], value = "";
+                if (keyValues.length > 1) {
+                  value = keyValues[1];
+                }
                 dictDoc.put(key, value);
               });
       searchDocument.set(fieldName, dictDoc);
diff --git a/metadata-io/src/test/java/com/linkedin/metadata/TestEntityUtil.java b/metadata-io/src/test/java/com/linkedin/metadata/TestEntityUtil.java
index 9ee4a16a3ab99..062041253aa1f 100644
--- a/metadata-io/src/test/java/com/linkedin/metadata/TestEntityUtil.java
+++ b/metadata-io/src/test/java/com/linkedin/metadata/TestEntityUtil.java
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ public static TestEntityInfo getTestEntityInfo(Urn urn) {
                 "value1",
                 "key2",
                 "value2",
+                "key3",
+                "",
                 "shortValue",
                 "123",
                 "longValue",
diff --git a/metadata-io/src/test/java/com/linkedin/metadata/search/transformer/SearchDocumentTransformerTest.java b/metadata-io/src/test/java/com/linkedin/metadata/search/transformer/SearchDocumentTransformerTest.java
index def14f9be7054..0723859b12452 100644
--- a/metadata-io/src/test/java/com/linkedin/metadata/search/transformer/SearchDocumentTransformerTest.java
+++ b/metadata-io/src/test/java/com/linkedin/metadata/search/transformer/SearchDocumentTransformerTest.java
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ public void testTransform() throws IOException {
     assertEquals(parsedJson.get("feature2").asInt(), 1);
     JsonNode browsePathV2 = (JsonNode) parsedJson.get("browsePathV2");
     assertEquals(browsePathV2.asText(), "␟levelOne␟levelTwo");
+    assertEquals(parsedJson.get("esObjectField").get("key3").asText(), "");
   }
 
   @Test