Why do I need it?
We’ve noticed the CRM Duplicate detection doesn’t allow for much creativity, you can only create Duplicate Detection Rules with the following condition:
- full string match
- begins with (number of characters)
- ends with (number of characters)
The problem with this is that people or companies aren’t always entered in the same format. For instance if you look at our company name we would create the account with the name "Orbit One". Other people might write "Orbit One BVBA" (the bvba part is a type of business entity)
There are some other examples that come to mind:
"Dell NV" vs "Dell"
"HP Belgium" vs "HP"
"Gaëtan" vs "Gaetan"
"François" vs "Francois"
These exceptions will never be caught by the default CRM Duplicate detection.
How can I fix this?
We added the following attributes and filled the with data:
- on account => new_matchname (contains the accounts name)
- on contact => new_matchname (contains the contacts first + lastname)
- on lead => new_matchcontact (contains the leads first+ lastname)
- on lead => new_matchcompany (contains the lead company name)
The fields are filled with a normalized name. The process is:
- to lower case and trim.
- replace special characters (except parenthesis, a-z, 0-9, special characters like éèàç …, and spaces) with empty string.
- remove everything between the parentheses eg: "HP (was Compaq)" becomes "HP"
- remove suffixes and prefixes that are type of business entity
- remove all spaces
- replace special characters (eg: é > e, à => a, ç => c, ñ => n, …)
Next there need to be some new duplicate detection rules.
- full string match on new_matchname for contact
- full string match on new_matchname for account
- full string match on new_matchcontact for lead (add companyname if needed in your specific cases)
The current implemented type of business entity which will be stripped are:
- nv
- sa
- vzw
- bvba
- cvba
- sarl
- sprl
- scrl
- nvsa
- bv
- llc
- gmbh
- ltd
- ag
- kt
- og
- vof
- cvoa
- commva
- commv
- ebvba
- ez
- belgium
Duplicate Detection Jobs
In CRM you can add duplicate detection jobs by going to Settings > Data Management > Duplicate detection jobs
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Create a new Duplicate detection job for for instance accounts. Make sure you filter on only active records. When you merge a duplicate record the record that isn’t the master record will be placed on inactive. So if you forget this filter you’ll keep getting the same duplicates Image may be NSFW.
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Once the job ran, you can see the duplicates entries.
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What we think is another major pain in the a$$ is that you can only merge 2 records at a time. So not really in bulk… Maybe we will come up with a solution for this later Image may be NSFW.
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You can find the Matchname plugin on CodePlex. There is an installer include so that you don’t need to worry about the plugin registration, creating the steps, …. More on this on CodePlex.
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