I have an object called CLIENTS, with 2 fields CLIENT NUMBER and CLIENT NAME.
For various reasons, we cannot legally prevent the same person from creating multiple CLIENT records, which means I cannot require the CLIENT NAME to be unique. This leads to the circumstance where JIM SMITH might have 3 CLIENT records numbered 101, 443 and 876, for example
I am looking for a way to highlight the existence of duplicated names, so the operational staff are aware the person has more than one client account.
I was hoping that I could just provide a grid of all clients, grouped by NAME, and then find a way to remove any group that has less than 2 rows.
You could use a pivot table to group by client name, but Knack doesn’t let you sort highest to lowest count, which makes it hard to determine the duplicates in a sea of clients.
Combined with a pivot table, you can use this small snippet of code to remove all pivot table rows that have a count of less than 2.
Replace view_xx with your pivot table’s view.
$(document).on(`knack-view-render.view_xx`, function (event, view, data) {
// For each row in the pivot table...
$(`#${view.key} tbody tr`).each(function() {
const calc = parseFloat($(this).find('.kn-pivot-calc').text().trim()); // Get the count field value
if (calc < 2) {
$(this).remove(); // Remove the row if the count is less than 2
}
});
});
