Managing duplicates in the recording

[rizao]

Hello, I would like your support on a question. I want to register participants for a project, and multiple surveyors will be registering them. I would like to know how to configure a questionnaire that prevents the same participant from being registered twice by sending a message stating that this participant has already been registered.
Thank you for your support.

[hakan_cetinkaya]

Hi @rizao,

There is a workaround found by Kal_Lam about this issue, you might want to check it:

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 the …