How to protect duplicate entries?

[meaf]

2nd-time the same text/number entry will not be taken if entry is done once before?

[Kal_Lam]

Welcome to the community, @meaf! You could do this by following our other post (that exploits the dynamic data attachment feature):

Preventing duplicate entries by respondents

Welcome to the community, @nkwantanorth! You could do this by exploiting the dynamic data attachment feature as shown below: In the survey tab of your XLSForm: [image] Data entry screen as seen in Enketo (when the record is already present in the server): [image] Reference XLSForm: Beneficiary Name Check (Case Management).xlsx (9.4 KB) Please note the following when using the Dynamic Data Attachment feature to work: It takes 5 minutes to sync the data To make this work, you must link t…