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how to give a warning if there is an error happened on a field with unique value required

  • March 6, 2020
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I created a list in SharePoint 2013.  See detail information below.

Columns:

Title: not required, but enforced unique

State: lookup, required

County: lookup, required

I create a workflow, to set Title as 'State'-'County'.  If user enter an duplicate item, e.g. CA-Orange is already existed in the list, there is an error happening.  

My questio:

1. How to check if an error is happening and pop up a warning to user? For my case, how to check it the data entry is duplicated?

2. How to set the error message in Nintex workflow?

Thanks, 

Jen

    1 reply

    Michel
    Nintex Partner
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    • MichelNintex Partner
    • Nintex Partner
    • March 9, 2020
    Hi Jen,

    Instead of using Nintex Workflow, I would suggest using Nintex Forms. If you use Nintex Forms, with a calculated field, you are able to format the Title field to be set to 'State'-'Country' as well.

    Then, before submitting, with rules you are able to verify if that exact combination already exists in the list. If so, you can show a notification that tells the user that the chosen combination already exists.

    Kind regards,
    Michel
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