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Merging contacts brings me to the contact's profile
March 01, 2011, 12:10:05 pm
So we just upgraded to 3.3.5 (which looks great!) but one problem is that when you use the merge function instead of bringing you back to the list of duplicate contacts so you can continue merging, Civi brings you to the contact's profile that you just merged. This required you to go back to the admin panel and seared for duplicates all over again. At this rate is would be impossible to keep the database clean.

Any quick fixes for this? Anyone else having this problem?

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Re: Merging contacts brings me to the contact's profile
March 01, 2011, 12:20:16 pm

This is fixed in 3.4 where we allow you to go to the next merge pair after we are done merging a pair. We are also caching the dedupe results, so we can render the list quickly without running the same set of queries again (which is what happens in 3.3 and prior)

For 3.3, the recommended hack is to: Always merge in a new tab and keep the original list in the same window, i.e. avoid running the dedupe engine too much (since its computationally expensive)

if these improvements are useful to you/your org, consider making a contribtution towards the project: http://civicrm.org/contribute and/or your favorite MIH: http://civicrm.org/mih

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Re: Merging contacts brings me to the contact's profile
March 01, 2011, 12:50:59 pm
Thanks!

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