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Customized VTiger Duplicate Merge Tool

July 27, 2016
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VTiger has a built in ‘Find Duplicates‘ tool which works with all the standard & custom modules., The tool can be accessed from “Actions” –> “Find Duplicates”. It’s sophisticated enough where the user can select multiple fields to check for duplicates as well as exclude the empty values. In addition, the fields selected are displayed as columns and “Merge” button allows to compare records side by side, and of course, merge. Merging duplicates is a tedious process and requires a lot of patience, effort and most importantly, time. We’ve come up with a way to speed up the duplicate merging by enhancing current VTiger Duplicate Merge Tool. First – we added additional columns to allow users to see more information about the records to be merged, even though those fields/columns are not parts of duplicate check. Standard functionality only allows to show fields as columns which you are ‘checking as duplicates’,