Duplicate matching restricted to Group - cannot be Smart Group

[petednz]

I think I fell foul of making up Smart Groups to limit my DeDupe run. I saw a couple of places where it suggested reducing TimeOut errors by just running on particular groups by adding &GID='##'

So I tried but got nowhere. Then I figured maybe it was cause I used Smart Groups. And on Demo I tested it with Adams Family and Adams not smart Family - and got the duplicates I expected on the latter but not on the former.

I have added a rider to the Tip at http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Find+Duplicate+Contacts

NOTE: This will only work with Standard Groups - i.e. it will not work with Smart Groups.

If I am correct then I will make the effort of adding that to other threads in this forum on this issue.

And before you ask why I was trying with Smart Groups - because that is what you can do from 'more actions' though I believe you have put have 'add to new group' in the more actions in 2.1

Onward

[Piotr Szotkowski]

Yes, it seems the group limiting of dedupe in CiviCRM 2.0 works only with standard (non-smart) groups. We hope to fix it in 2.1, but it might get pushed to a later release.

[Piotr Szotkowski]

Lobo just added code to make smart groups handling transparent (from the point of view of dedupe – CRM-3082), so this will be fixed in CiviCRM 2.1.

[petednz]

Sounds great - good work guys