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tedevangtedevang 

Prevent Duplicate Opportunity Name

I would like to set a rule that doesn't allow duplicate Opportunity Names. Can this be done with workflow/validation or do I need to set a trigger for this?

 

Thanks.

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tedevangtedevang

Actually I ended up doing it using workflow. I set up a custom field called "Opportunity_Name_Dupecheck__c" and upon saving the opportunity, copied the Opportunity Name to the custom field. The custom field was set up to require a unique value so that it now throws an error when someone tries creating the same Opportunity Name. One side benefit of this is that the error has a link to the Opportunity so you can go right to it. The only extra thing I needed to do was bulk update any open Opportunities to populate the value of this field - which only takes a couple minutes.

 

Thanks.

 

-Ted

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Imran MohammedImran Mohammed

Trigger will be the right solution for this.
Imran MohammedImran Mohammed

Were you able to achieve it with a trigger or did you find any other way of doing that?
tedevangtedevang

Actually I ended up doing it using workflow. I set up a custom field called "Opportunity_Name_Dupecheck__c" and upon saving the opportunity, copied the Opportunity Name to the custom field. The custom field was set up to require a unique value so that it now throws an error when someone tries creating the same Opportunity Name. One side benefit of this is that the error has a link to the Opportunity so you can go right to it. The only extra thing I needed to do was bulk update any open Opportunities to populate the value of this field - which only takes a couple minutes.

 

Thanks.

 

-Ted

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