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Tip #1414: Enforce unique email but ignore inactive records

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Alternate keys are great way to enforce uniqueness of the column values. For example, if you want lead emails to be truly unique, just add an alternate key and no user will be able to bypass that (unlike the duplicate detection which is a fairly timid mechanism). The challenge is when you want that uniqueness […]

Posted on September 9, 2021 by George Doubinski (Twitter) in Dataverse
Tagged alternate keys, unique email | 1 Comment
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