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Making email addresses unique
January 12, 2012, 08:09:58 am
Hi

Is it possible to set up civi so that if entering an email address which is already on the system this is flagged as a duplicate...? Our policy is one email address per member which then helps us create a joomla account.

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Re: Making email addresses unique
January 12, 2012, 08:43:02 am

You can use a validate hook to ensure this across all forms that your org uses. You can also add this to the post hook of the email object (and abort if so?)

Check:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC40/CiviCRM+hook+specification
http://book.civicrm.org/developer/

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