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FredJones

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Duplicate Matching Question
August 19, 2008, 07:18:09 am
It appears to me that the email-based duplicate checking only checks the primary email, which means that if I create a contact account (via signing up for an event) using my 'personal' email and then another account using my 'work' email I will now have two contact records. Is this correct? Is there any way to adjust this behavior?

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Re: Duplicate Matching Question
August 19, 2008, 02:17:11 pm
Quote from: FredJones on August 19, 2008, 07:18:09 am
It appears to me that the email-based duplicate checking only checks the primary email, which means that if I create a contact account (via signing up for an event) using my 'personal' email and then another account using my 'work' email I will now have two contact records. Is this correct?

yes

Quote from: FredJones on August 19, 2008, 07:18:09 am
Is there any way to adjust this behavior?

no easy way in 2.0 and prior. in 2.1 we've changed the dupe match algorithm and modified a fair amount of code with regard to this to enable dupe checking on the rules decided by admin. Would be great if you could do a test drive on sandbox.civicrm.org and see if it addresses this issue

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FredJones

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Re: Duplicate Matching Question
August 25, 2008, 08:02:49 am
Yes, it indeed does. Thank you!
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