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Preventing duplicate contacts from being created?

Posted on 27 Nov 2024 00:04:59 by 20

Hi everyone,

I’ve created an automation that performs the following:

  • When a new item is added to a Microsoft List, it automatically creates a corresponding contact in Outlook.

So far, this is working well (setup image attached below)

My next goal is to prevent duplicate contacts from being created.

  • Is there a condition I can add to the flow to check for duplicates before adding a new contact?
  • Alternatively, does Outlook have a feature to detect duplicate records and prompt the account holder to review them?
  • Expiscornovus Profile Picture
    Expiscornovus 30,571 on 27 Nov 2024 at 13:55:35
    Preventing duplicate contacts from being created?
    Just of interest, would you also be open for an approach which handles this on the input side of things? This would also save you some flow runs.
     
    You could check if it is a duplicate when people are adding it to the list by using a Power App with power fx code.
     
    Below is an example article about duplicates:

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