Oct 02, 2018 02:57 AM
I’m a big fan of look-ups but I would really like to be able to remove records the occur more than one time. Is there a way to do that?
Feb 13, 2022 12:35 PM
Would love this feature too!
Feb 14, 2022 04:40 PM
This would solve a big problem for us. The user @David_Krizan posted a screenshot that would solve all our problems. It’s been several years and we haven’t had any movement on this topic.
Feb 14, 2022 05:14 PM
Come on Airtable, throw me a freakin’ switch! I (and many others) have been asking for this for over 3 years now! There’s been a US presidential election and a global pandemic in the interim, and all we’re asking for here is a wee little switch that does the ARRAYUNIQUE() function.
In case y’all forgot…
Feb 15, 2022 02:18 PM
In the last two days I’ve implemented about six instances of the whole lookup—>rollup—>automated multiselect field. At an overhead of extra fields and at least two automations per.
Seems there are a bunch of other commonsense features that are missing, and complained of for just as long… :triumph:
(Some of which mirror this one, in that you need to use this trick to work around them. Like teasing items out of a multiselect into discrete single selects, so you can generate a kanban; rather than being able to specify which value in multi-select to use as the key when creating the stacked view…)
Feb 15, 2022 03:04 PM
Is it correct that the rollup & automated entry on update workaround only functions for entering items into a choice select field, but not into a multiple link field? Even if the string matches when manually typing it into the link field?
Like so:
If it matters, the Entry Grid is pulling from the Sync Grid in their mutual origin base and they are both sync’d to this destination base.
The project here is adapting Airtable’s sample “legal analysis” template so each instance of the template can draw upon a common source base relating points of law to their supporting cases and code sections.
The original discussion of this technique was talking about input to linked item fields, not choice fields, so I’m not sure what’s up with the behavior I’m seeing. I did have to use SUBSTITUTE(ARRAYJOIN(ARRAYUNIQUE(values)), '"', '')
in the rollup to strip the quotation marks that appear when manipulating sync’d data, as opposed to just ARRAYUNIQUE(values)
– does that have something to do with it?
The log appears to indicate permission errors, but that doesn’t make a lot of sense…
"Updating the record failed due to insufficient permissions.
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Mar 03, 2022 08:59 AM
I need this as well. Anyone knows if this feature is planned for a future update or has it been ignored all this time?
Mar 07, 2022 12:36 PM
The lack of this feature has been a major headache for the past couple of days. There is no adequate workaround. Sure would be nice to be able to toggle a unique lookup like @David_Krizan proposed.
Mar 23, 2022 03:25 PM
Still facing this problem 3.5 years since the original post. After seeing the number of people requesting a fix for so long, I hope Airtable is considering prioritizing this feature. @Adam_Minich
Apr 08, 2022 07:52 AM
+1 this feature would greatly benefit our organization as well, seems like a very intuitive thing to implement.
Apr 18, 2022 09:17 AM
+1 on the request for @David_Krizan 's proposed solution to add an “Only display unique linked records” switch here. :slightly_smiling_face:
May 13, 2022 12:30 AM
+1 from me also! It would help greatly
Jun 06, 2022 03:07 PM
+1 it’s kinda ridiculous at this point
Jun 07, 2022 04:58 PM
+1 for that one !!!
Jun 10, 2022 12:56 PM
+1 For this useful switch!!
Jun 10, 2022 01:42 PM
It’s a bug in Airtable.
But you can get the desired effect by creating a rollup field instead of a lookup field, and using the formula:
ARRAYUNIQUE(values)
Sep 17, 2022 09:04 AM
Please airtable add this feature!!
Sep 17, 2022 09:12 AM
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In the meantime, you can achieve similar functionality by creating a rollup field with the formula:
ARRAYUNIQUE(values)
Mar 02, 2023 07:24 AM
Maybe people should read the case before suggesting Arrayunique, which is not a solution (you don't have linked records)
I'd love to see this feature (a "display only unique linked records" toggle)
Forever bumping this thread, 1612 days after it was posted
Mar 23, 2023 02:01 PM
+1. This is pretty basic. I agree that the duplicates seem more like a bug than a feature - I guess maybe there's a use case where that would be helpful but I can't think of one. Adam Minich's workaround on page 3 seems like the best option, but still isn't great.
Apr 05, 2023 11:42 AM
Just thought I would add myself to the dozens of users requesting the very simple solution of allowing us to filter out duplicates from lookup fields.
Very disheartening as a relatively new enterprise account manager that this functionality is not available, and that is has been requested for 3.5 years with no response from Airtable.