# Accidentaly creating duplicate tags

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/accidentaly-creating-duplicate-tags/10135>\
**Category:** Bugs & Issues\
**Created:** [December 5, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/accidentaly-creating-duplicate-tags/10135 "2025-12-05T14:20:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Yuri\_BC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/yuri_bc/32/8803_2.png) [@Yuri\_BC](https://community.fibery.io/u/Yuri_BC)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/accidentaly-creating-duplicate-tags/10135/1 "2025-12-05T14:20:07Z")

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This appears to be a repeating issue: users clicking create instead of selecting the one already present, when both are the same.

Please add setting for unique values for many to many fields like Tags.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/c/ca6aca66739d4e4ddcfe95a2a4b071f0d473c656.png)

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/accidentaly-creating-duplicate-tags/10135/2 "2025-12-05T15:03:21Z")

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If your Tags are in a database, then you can simply require the Name field to be unique:

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/accidentaly-creating-duplicate-tags/10135/3 "2025-12-05T15:03:51Z")

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Alternatively, use access control to limit who is able to create new entities

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**Author:** ![Yuri\_BC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/yuri_bc/32/8803_2.png) [@Yuri\_BC](https://community.fibery.io/u/Yuri_BC)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/accidentaly-creating-duplicate-tags/10135/4 "2025-12-05T18:02:36Z")

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Thank you, that worked. Good enough for now (albeit a bit clumsy ux)

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/accidentaly-creating-duplicate-tags/10135/5 "2025-12-05T18:17:03Z")

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