Prevent Duplicate Collections

[vismonkey]

Is there a way to prevent creating a collection with the same name. For instance I have a simple button that creates a new “company” collection as well as names it from an input. However I don’t want the company to be added more than once as a collection. So I would like for the button to be disabled or something similar when the input for the company name already matches a company collection with that same name.

Thanks

[ibornset]

I also need this solution, to prevent a record with the same name from being added.

[geoffrey.tissot2]

Hi, did you guys find a solution here ? Thank you

[Victor]

Hi @geoffrey.tissot2,

There is no “built-in” way to prevent creating duplicate records in the collections.

This is a common question, so I’ve decided to create a video tutorial for that, see here:

Adalo hints: how to prevent from creating duplicate records in the collection (UPDATED with 2nd video)

Sometimes one needs to be sure that the value of the property in collection is unique for each record. As an example - you need to be sure that name of the company / restaurant / event / etc. is unique and record with this name can’t be added for the 2nd time. UPDATE: added a second video how to make a modal window with warnings. Thanks for your comments inspiring that! UPDATE #2: please note, the check is case sensitive; so “UGC ODEON” and “ugc odeon” will be treated as different entries. He…

Best regards, Victor.

[geoffrey.tissot2]

Interresting, thank’s for the video