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CiviCRM Webform - Dedupe issue when using a shared address
We use webforms to register adults and children for events and memberships within the organisation. We require that adults register with an e-mail address but for children we do not expect this.
We ...
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Webform CiviCRM Integration and duplicate contacts
I’m using Drupal 7.39, CiviCRM 4.6.7, and Webform CiviCRM Integration 7.x-4.12. I have a webform built whereas I’ve enabled the ‘Existing Contact’ field as I want the fields in the form to be filled ...
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Create new contacts every time someone makes a contribution ( with duplicate emails )
Currently, we have a custom profile field on our contribution page named: "Designation" which user need to have, but also we have contributors that make more than one donation and therefore the ...
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How can I prevent spam bots from making submissions to CiviCRM?
I ALREADY had reCaptcha enabled in Civi and on my Profile type, but it seems that spam bots were still making submissions to CiviCRM and creating contacts (and got assigned to a group).
I only ...
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Is there a way to search/export potential duplicates?
I'm about to run dedupe (Contacts > Find and Merge Duplicate Contacts) and I was wondering if there is a way to put all potential duplicates from a certain rule into a group so I could export them as ...
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CiviSMS merge option prior to sending?
When exporting search results or preparing a New Mailing in Civi Mail, there is an option to merge contacts from the same household/address (export) or remove duplicate emails (CiviMail).
Does a ...
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Contact merge is throwing "Could not find valid value for cid"
We've recently started getting "Could not find valid value for cid" when trying to merge contacts. I just upgraded CiviCRM from 4.5.8 to 4.6.4 in the hopes it would cure the problem and it did not. ...
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How can I prevent deduping from killing my server?
On a reasonably big data set (e.g. one with 70,000 individual contacts), it's not hard to kill your server with a naive manual de-duplication attempt. For example, if you don't specify a group, that ...
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Error on merging duplicate contacts, wordpress, civi 4.4.14
Scenario 1:
1. Select last name, email rule, all contacts
2. List of potential dups is displayed
3. Select first pair
a) Displays error message at the top of the screen:
: title in /home/...
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contact match script?
I'd like to import an inconsistent list of contact names with associated donations and match the names to contacts. IMO there are 3 options:
Clean the csv in advance by displaying contact ...
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Can Drupal Webform Integration update matching contacts
On the CiviCRM profiles you have the ability to set it update matching contact. I don't see this functionality with the Drupal webform CiviCRM Integration module. Is it there and I'm simply missing it?...
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Deduplicating - unexpected over-ride behaviour
We're using Civi 4.5.4 and Drupal 7, and finding that the deduping rule is confusing us - or we have a bug.
Unexpected duplication of addresses.
Contact A (the duplicate) has a home phone, email or ...
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Is there any documentation for 'safe' and 'aggressive' merge modes?
We are investigating the 'Process batch merge' scheduled job in CiviCRM, to automatically batch merge duplicate contacts. This calls api.job.processBatchMerge which seems to take the rule to use as a ...
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Unsupervised dedupe rules in the background?
It is my understanding that unsupervised dedupe rules take effect when one attempts to create a new contact, and they can also be run manually like any other rule. Can unsupervised deduplication be ...
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Adding value conditions to dedupe rules
It's possible to specify on a dedupe rule that 'Contact Subtype' must match. Is there any way of attaching specific values to that, for example, 'and they must both be Student'?
Some of this could be ...
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How to distinguish "Contacts with the same name" when assigning an activity?
A couple of people have exactly the same name in CiviCRM: John Smith.
When assigning an activity you select a person by starting to type its name.
However in case that people have exactly the same ...
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How do I find duplicate contacts by nickname?
Here's an example of a very common situation I have:
Database has a contact like this
first name: Robert
nick name: Bob
last name: Smith
email: [email protected]
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Event registration form ...
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Wordpress duplicates my contacts
I haven't quite worked out under which circumstances, but our WordPress (4.0.1) and Civi (4.5.2) seems to create duplicate contacts for the same WordPress user. I think it happens when they log in, ...
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