Duplicate Management - Don't Allow Matches on Name Only

When reviewing possible duplicates in RENXT webview, we are seeing thousands of false positive matches (0 dots) where there are records with just a name (i.e. a tribute record or other. Would it be possible to update the algorithm to not consider possible matches where there is only a name in the record? The name isn't enough to identify whether a record is a match (i.e. which of the 9 John Smiths with different addresses is the same John Smith who has a record with just a name? this example would generate 10 possible duplicates as the "name only" is possibly matched to all the other John Smiths on just the name field)

I realize that records with just a name is a future cleanup/data retention project (or a lot of checking "not duplicate" boxes), but for now, they are adding a lot of noise to the the possible duplicates total. I am assuming that we are not the only organization this is impacting?

  • Donella Robb
  • Nov 26 2024
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  • Jennifer Watson commented
    01 Jul 18:02

    I have just spent some time cleaning up some duplicates where the name was the same but bday was 30 years apart. We need the ability to have other fields as criteria for matching dups.