Unique Items on Podio

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Julius Danek

• March 10, 2017 15:05

Hi there, 

 

I know that there are some older posts on unique items on Podio already but I wanted to reiterate the point. I am having a hard time believing that it isn't possible to define a unique key in Podio. This is a major problem for tying Podio into apps like Zapier, using the Podio webform or even having my colleagues use Podio. In one of our contacts templates we have around 5000 entries, so duplicates happen very easily but I would really like to avoid them. This is such a nuisance – also when trying to import via API or bespoke other sources. 

Please give implementing this feature some serious thought – it shouldn't be such a difficult issue.

Thanks,

Julius

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  Pete Cuff

  • March 10, 2017 15:27

  Hi Julis, 

  There are 2 unique keys you can access for Podio items: one is the App Item ID and one the Podio Item ID.  To turn on the App Item ID it's under an app's advance settings.  For Podio Item IDs these need to be accessed via the API but for example this is easy using platforms like Globiflow.

  Hope that helps

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  Julius Danek

  • March 10, 2017 15:29

  Hi Peter, 

   

  that doesn't help unfortunately because I meant me setting a unique key. Like an email address as a unique key. Liken it to a SQL db where you can set unique keys on any column. In Podio I haven't seen the possibility to do that. 

   

  Thanks!

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  Bill Carovano

  • March 10, 2017 16:09

  Hi Julius

  To prevent duplicates, you can use Globiflow and a "when item created" flow to check for the existence of the unique key.  If found, you can delete the new (or existing) item.  You could also choose to update existing item values if desired.

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