# Failed to merge when there is a required field

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/failed-to-merge-when-there-is-a-required-field/9407>\
**Category:** Bugs & Issues\
**Created:** [August 13, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/failed-to-merge-when-there-is-a-required-field/9407 "2025-08-13T23:28:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/failed-to-merge-when-there-is-a-required-field/9407/1 "2025-08-13T23:28:59Z")

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I have a relationship where a profile entity requires a person entity, and person can have 0 to many profiles.

There are duplicate people in the system, each with a profile, but when I try to merge I get the following error.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/2/2dd6a433658f18f5927b5824d28dd6be1832b0a0.png)

**Expected behaviour:** since this “person” would be replacing the other, the resultant relationship should have both profile entities linked to the one person entity.