CI is used to capture where the issue/problem/change has occurred(if in the past for Problem and Incident) or change is to be deployed.
Usually CI field is available on Task table and the functionality can be used for all the tables extending from task like incident, problem, change, request, requested item etc.,
You can change/update the Primary CI value on a record but why do you want to do that?
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