Merge Duplicates - Only Show Differences
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Benjamin West
With so many custom fields required to capture our congregation and beyond, the Merge Duplicates feature becomes extremely difficult to use. We have maybe 100+ custom fields, for children, volunteer compliance, youth etc. They all show on the Merge Duplicates page.
Request is for only a small change: either by default only show the "actual differences" between people, or maybe just a highly visible checkbox to "Show only differences between people".
That way it only shows the fields that are relevant and different. Much more usable in my opinion.
Benjamin West
This doesn't seem to be functioning. Raising a support ticket.
Stewart Polley
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This got started recently and should be available next week.
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Anna Richardson
Yessss... this would be great. I'd vote for a checkbox or option to select 'only show differences' though, as I often use some 'same' fields to convince myself that it is actually a duplicate person and not two people with the same or very similar names (of which we have several!)
Stewart Polley
This is such an obvious thing that I'm surprised we hadn't done it originally.
I'll review this with the devs and review how much work this would take to get done.
Stewart
Benjamin West
Stewart Polley: Thanks! Also raised this one after reading your comment:
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Spencer James
Stewart Polley: While you're reviewing, is it possible to create a way to merge duplicates by manually selecting accounts? I find myself recognizing a duplicate based on something the system can't match and needing to put in a fake email address so the system will recognize it. Then, I can merge...
Stewart Polley
Spencer James: That would most likely be done independently. I believe there's an existing request for that though if you want to vote for it.