On Jan 12, 2:39 pm, tom <[email protected]> wrote: > hi > > is there a plugin or something else which could assist in finding > duplicates in a model / table? > > even with validations, users tend to enter data twice / wrong (for > whatever reasons...)..so i was wondering if there is something out > there to find these entries, preferably across multiple columns
Never heard of a plugin to do this, but one thing that can help is adding :disable_with to submit buttons - you'd be amazed how many users double-click (or more) buttons. You'll notice this if you're using timestamps and you see a stack of identical records created <1s apart. --Matt Jones
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