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Qrew Captain

4 years ago

Stop overzealous end users from saving duplicates

Hi, Running into an issue where users of a survey app are accidently saving multiple entries due to how fast they are clicking the green save button. Any thoughts on how to stop them from submit...

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MarkShnier__You

Qrew Legend

No problem,

Create two fields on will be called [User and Today's Date formula]. It will be the concatenation of the ToText of he current user and todays date.

Then have another text field field called [Sorry, your Survey has already been Saved for Today] and mark it as Unique.

Make a form rule to populate the text field form the formula field.

That should work. The user will try to double save and the message will comer up saying

"Sorry, your Survey has already been Saved for Today"

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AustinK

Qrew Commander

4 years ago

Maybe I misunderstood the question here but if a user is on a new record and hits save twice, it should only save a single record right? Assuming that they are using the normal native save button.

I have never seen the double record issue happen. I just tried to make it happen by spam clicking the save button but it doesn't do anything except save a single record, it even appeared to disable the button after I clicked. I assume they have some different set up here than the native button. How else would this happen?