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Find and Merge Duplicate Contacts not working
February 08, 2011, 05:36:40 pm
I have a group called 'maiden' in the sandbox. It has some duplicate records that could be merged:

"First Name","Legal Identifier","Last Name","Email"
"steve","001","harris",
"dave","002","murray",
"adrian","003","smith",
"bruce","004","dickinson",
"nico","005","mcbain",
"steve",,,"bassATmaiden.com"
,,,"rguitarATmaiden.com"
"adrian",,"smith",
"bruce",,"dickinson","vocalsATmaiden.com"
,,"mcbain","drumsATmaiden.com"

I keep getting a message that '  No possible duplicates were found using rule.'

I've used CiviCrm dedupe before, but it was in 2007. But the interface now seems even more straightforward, so I'm kinda at a loss.

TIA

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Re: Find and Merge Duplicate Contacts not working
February 08, 2011, 08:16:53 pm
You need to set the rule ( individual: fuzzy ) accordingly, with respect to the weight of the fields ( on which basis you want to mark as duplicate ) and threshold value of the rule. Suppose you want to mark contacts as duplicate on first name and last name basis, then the addition of weights of those fields at least should equal to the threshold value of the rule.

Rajan

 
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