# Allow duplicate with unique values by allowing users to choose a new value

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/allow-duplicate-with-unique-values-by-allowing-users-to-choose-a-new-value/9179>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Created:** [July 10, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/allow-duplicate-with-unique-values-by-allowing-users-to-choose-a-new-value/9179 "2025-07-10T23:30:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![AdVhPkgKad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7993a0/32.png) [@AdVhPkgKad](https://community.fibery.io/u/AdVhPkgKad)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/allow-duplicate-with-unique-values-by-allowing-users-to-choose-a-new-value/9179/1 "2025-07-10T23:30:37Z")

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I don’t know if it’s a bug, oversight, or just not implemented, but when I try to duplicate a record…  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/2/237ab5c09ff9d4f0766e0a49f01ad507778ceb61.png)

I know this, because I’m making a sister company where all of the details are the same bar the location, so I was going to call it “[Company Name] - [Location B]” and rename the original to “[Company Name] - [Location A]”

It would be nice that it could detect potential duplicates and allow users to rectify any issues within a pop-up.

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**Author:** ![antoniokov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/antoniokov/32/201_2.png) [@antoniokov](https://community.fibery.io/u/antoniokov)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/allow-duplicate-with-unique-values-by-allowing-users-to-choose-a-new-value/9179/2 "2025-07-11T11:19:18Z")

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That’s a valid case, thanks for sharing!

We discussed the duplicate action during the development, but skipped it because we didn’t find a decent, easy-to-implement solution.

When unique values are required, we cannot duplicate entities without the additional user input, as you’ve pointed out.

If we see this issue popping up often, we’ll figure something out.

Meanwhile, you can create your own custom Duplicate [Button](https://the.fibery.io/@public/User_Guide/Guide/Buttons-52) and `Ask user` for the unique Field value:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/9/9b552ba5cc8c49490b338973749fc4a175388826.png)