Hello all, how can I prevent duplicate records? I have a scenario where if an appraisal record already has data for major achievements and areas of improvement, the system will notify the user and prevent them from submitting a new entry. Thanks and appreciate the advice 
In the Settings of “Appraisal” check the “Must be Unique” box. Knack will prevent duplicates automatically.
Hi Erik, thanks for taking the time on this. Appraisal serves as a connection so no option that it will be a unique.
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Hi @RonB - unfortunately there is no built in simple method to check for duplicate values currently. This can be done with Javascript so it checks before the form is submitted. I’m not a coder but there are plenty in the Knack community. The other option may be to checkout my college (@JulianKirkness) blog post on this subject.
Hello @RonB ,
You can do 1 thing instead of preventing duplicates you can remove that from the dropdown. Add a count field in the Appraisal object. if the count is >0 then don’t show this in the dropdown.
Regards,
Sunny Singla
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Hi @Sunny_Singla , thanks for taking the time on this. The dropdown is an auto increment ID so that must be unique when I create something with the Appraisal object.
Ron,
In form where you show this connected dropdown add rule show only records having count field is <1 or count=0
Thanks,
Sunny Singla
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