[Question from the form] Deduplication through automation

AMA on automation with Troy Tessalone
1

I’m waiting for a deduplication feature or plugin to be added in Baserow. And I was thinking while this feature is missing can I use automation tools to check my data for duplications?

2

It may depend on your defined deduplication logic. (e.g. email vs email OR phone vs email AND phone, etc.)

Plus it will depend on what you are trying to do if a duplicate is detected. (e.g. stop OR update OR something else)

In general, the automation logic could look like this:

  1. Trigger: Jotform - New Submission
  2. Action: Baserow - Find Row
  3. Action: Filter
  4. Action: Baserow - Create Row
3

I assume the person who asked this question is referring to this feature that Airtable has: Dedupe Extension | Airtable Support. We received a few requests to add it.