I had the pleasure of using the Dedupe App the other night on a huge client project that involved 3,500 duplicates with mismatched data.
Not just pairs of duplicates, but sometimes groups of 2, 3, or 4 duplicates. And not IDENTICAL duplicates, but duplicates that might or might not have different field information from one another.
I was really dreading the project, but it turned out incredibly well because the Dedupe App is absolutely perfectly designed!!
The Dedupe App is EXTREMELY well-designed, EXTREMELY intuitive, EXTREMELY powerful, and it has ALL THE OPTIONS that you could ever dream of in a Dedupe App!
For example:
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You can match on any number of fields that you’d like.
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You have the option to hide matching fields (i.e. fields where the data is 100% the same across multiple records), so you can instantly tell at-a-glance if you can safely merge multiple records.
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It lets you REMOVE records from a set of 3 or more duplicates, so you can just merge the records that you want to merge.
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It has full keyboard shortcut support built into the app, so you can quickly fly through thousands of duplicates without continually moving your mouse all over the screen.
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You can skip over groups of duplicates if you’re not sure what you want to do at the current moment.
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And much more.
Whoever designed this app within Airtable deserves a gold medal. I’ve worked with several database platforms throughout the years, and I’ve never seen Dedupe functionality as good as this one before.
Whoever designed this app is really a rockstar who TRULY UNDERSTANDS the headaches & the hassles that go along with eliminating duplicates — and they solved ALL THE PROBLEMS for us! :grinning_face_with_big_eyes:
I am truly blown away by this app. I was able to get through 3,500 duplicates in less than 2 hours, thanks to this app.
Thank you, Airtable!! :grinning_face_with_big_eyes: :raised_hands: :thumbs_up: :pray:
@Taylor_Savage @Jason @raghavsethi
