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Custom fields same name in two data sets
September 28, 2012, 06:33:08 pm
I have two different data sets used for different things.  I'd like to have the field name in both of them.  It is not allowed.  I understand not having the same name in the same data set.  I don't understand it in different ones.  In the database you end up with different tables for each data set so there isn't a problem here, beside for some arcane reason all the fields get a number appended to them (makes writing sql queries against the raw data fun) so they would have unique columns anyway.

Am I missing something?

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Re: Custom fields same name in two data sets
September 29, 2012, 07:23:48 am

I think this was done for some forgotten historic reason and is no longer relevant today. Can you take a look at the code and submit a patch to ensure that this check happens only for fields in the same table and not across all tables

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Re: Custom fields same name in two data sets
September 29, 2012, 10:53:09 am
indeed this comes up a fair amount - e.g http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,18674.msg109285.html#msg109285 - would be nice to fix it.
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