Data hygiene is becoming more and more of a priority within my company’s Fibery workspace. Specifying a specific field for a duplication check within that form’s database would be extremely helpful. For example: add new contact form with the email as the duplication check. If that email exists wi…

Hey @ccollins I ran into this exact problem the other day and was able to write an automation using info from @Chr1sG 's post and this post from @Matt_Blais . Automation: The automation triggers for new entities created from a form. I put a hidden checkbox on all of my forms to indicate this. The…

I would also love some suggestions on this approach if people have better ideas. TBH I’m still learning how to use Fibery scripts.

I do not believe that there is any way to perform a duplication check that does not involve comparing a created entity with entities already in the database, and then making a decision. From a technical perspective, Fibery can’t currently know what the values of the entity’s fields are before it ha…

I hadn’t thought about how the pre-creation check would have to be implemented, I definitely see how there could be problems. I will look into adding creator notifications, thanks @ChrisG !

This is incredibly helpful! Thanks Tommy!

Is there a way that this automation could be executed on a formula field created after form submission? My example: have “first name” and “last name” text fields in a database and upon entity creation, the formula “name” is filled in with a concatenation of first name and last name. I’d like to chec…

You can trigger an automation when the formula field is updated (irrespective of the source of the data) which checks for duplication. We have a deduplication template that you can refer to for inspiration.

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Form Improvement: Duplicate Check

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