Hey everyone, nice to be a part of the fib fam :slight_smile: So, we import lots of data through CSV, and sometimes there might be duplicates from different files that get imported into the same type. Is there a way that I can set up an automation which checks for duplicate name fields and then de…

It’s actually quite difficult to do automatically, but there is a workaround way of highlighting duplicates: Create a many-to-many auto-relation to the type itself, where the criteria for a match is Name = Name: e.g. for the Task type: [image] Then create a formula that counts the number of tas…

How can I delete a duplicate entry automatically?

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Matt_Blais July 6, 2022, 3:55pm 7

Related: Check this post for (among other things) a script that does entity de-duplication using the GraphQL API:

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How can I delete a duplicate entry automatically?

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