Deduplicate Entry

Enable duplicate prevention upon manual entry

Last published at: February 27th, 2026
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Deduplicate Entry is a replacement entry page that you can use instead of the native Salesforce entry page. It shows duplicates while you are creating or editing a record. 

When using Duplicate Prevention in the standard Lightning Entry page, Plauti Deduplicate is limited to showing only a text message. To show the actual duplicate records while you are working on a record, replace the native entry page with the Deduplicate Entry Lightning Component. This way you can also display a warning or even prevent users from creating or updating a record if duplicates were found.

the Deduplicate Entry page

How it works

The Deduplicate Entry page will show up after clicking the button to create a new record or edit an existing record. Deduplicate Entry will check for duplicates in real-time, so potential duplicates will start appearing while users are filling out the fields.

For each duplicate record found, it will show the Score, the Result Fields as configured in the settings for that particular Object, and a button to view the potential duplicate record in a new tab. 

Based on the duplicates found users can then decide to update an existing record, or create or update the current record after all. Optionally, you can prevent users from creating or updating a record if duplicates were found.

For now, Deduplicate Entry is not available for the Task object.

To configure Deduplicate Entry:

  1. First replace the entry page
  2. Then apply scenarios
  3. Optionally, add full or partial insert blocking
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Deduplicate Entry and Verify Entry

Note that you can only configure one Entry page. To use both Plauti Deduplicate and Plauti Verify when creating or editing a record, do not apply Deduplicate Entry, but instead use the PV Entry page in combination with Deduplicate Scenario settings. Read more in Integrate Plauti Deduplicate with Plauti Verify‍.

1. Replacing the entry page

First, replace the Salesforce native entry page with the Deduplicate Entry page:

  1. Go to Salesforce Setup> Object Manager.
  2. Open the Object where you want to use the Deduplicate Entry page. 
  3. At left, go to Buttons, Links, and Actions.
  4. At the 'New' line, click Edit.
  5. At 'Lightning Experience Override', click Lightning Component, and select the dupcheck:dc3EntryRecordForm Lightning Component.
  6. Click Save.
  7. Repeat steps 5. and 6. for the Edit button: still in 'Buttons, Links and Actions', edit the 'Edit' line. 
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In older versions of DC, the lightning component to use used to be dupcheck:dc3RecordForm. This component is currently still available and will still work for now, but will be deprecated in the future.

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Inline editing

In the Deduplicate Entry form, fields are edited all in one go with the single Edit button.
If you prefer to have inline editing available for each field separately, do not use the override form, but instead use Deduplicate Entry via URL Addressable‍.

2. Applying a scenario

Then apply at least one scenario to manually inserting or updating a record.

To find duplicate records when creating or updating a record with the Deduplicate Entry override page, one or more scenarios should be enabled for this.

  1. Go to Deduplicate Setup > Object Configuration.
  2. At the Object(s) where you want to use Deduplicate Entry, click Configure.
  3. At the Scenario tab, find and edit the scenario you want to use for Deduplicate Entry or create a new one.
  4. In the Scenario configuration, at Apply to
    • Add 'Manual Insert Prevention' to use Deduplicate Entry when creating a new record, and
    • Add 'Manual Update Prevention' to use Deduplicate Entry when updating an existing record.
  5. Click Save.

Blocking entry (optional)

Optionally, you can prevent users from saving a record when duplicates have been found. Either block saving completely, or initially block but offer an 'Ignore and Save' option.

Fully blocking a duplicate entry

To ensure records cannot be saved if duplicate records were found:

  1. Go to Deduplicate Setup > Settings.
  2. At 'Duplicate Prevention in Native Entry Page Lightning', make sure the toggle switch is set to Enabled.

Now, when a duplicate was found when creating or editing a record, the record cannot be saved.

Blocking a duplicate entry with an option to override

To enable record blocking, but leave an option to override for certain users:

  1. Go to Deduplicate Setup > Settings.
  2. At 'Duplicate Prevention in Native Entry Page Lightning', make sure the toggle switch is set to Enabled.
  3. Go to Salesforce Setup > Permission Sets or Profiles.
  4. Open the permission set or profile that should be able to ignore the block.
  5. Go to its Object Settings and open the Object(s) where you want to use Duplicate Prevention.
  6. In the Field Permissions section, find the Disable Deduplicate field. 
  7. Make sure the permission set or profile has at least Read access to the Disable Deduplicate field.

Now, when a duplicate was found when creating or editing a record, the record cannot be saved, except when the user has a permission set or profile that has Read access to the Disable Duplicate Check field: then they can save the record even if a duplicate record is present. A warning is shown informing them that duplicates were found, but they can click Ignore & Save to save the record anyway.

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For non-standard and custom objects, you need to create the 'Disable Deduplicate' checkbox first, and the hard-block will only work when the Apex Trigger is created. Find out how in steps 2 and 3 of this article.

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Deduplicate Entry via URL Addressable

You can also access the Deduplicate Entry form via a URL. You can create a link that opens a Deduplicate Entry page for a particular object and record type, and pre-populate values. In addition, a success or failure URL can be set.

Using Deduplicate Entry via a URL also means that records can be edited with the Edit option next to each field, instead of only via the Edit button top right.

Read more in Deduplicate Entry - URL Addressable‍.

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Blocking duplicates with override in earlier versions

Up to and including DC version 3.361, the Disable Deduplicate checkbox (labeled as 'Disable Duplicate Check' at the time) needed to be added to the page layout of the object in order to override the blocking of a duplicate entry. Only if ticked could a record with duplicates still be saved.

From DC 3.362 onward, the Disable Deduplicate checkbox can still be added to the page layout, but it will not work anymore in Deduplicate Entry. Even when unticked, a record with duplicates can still be saved if a user has at least Read access to the field.
Only when using the native Salesforce entry page does the Disable Deduplicate checkbox still work.

Blocking entry with the native SF form

Even if you choose not to use the Plauti Deduplicate Entry override form, you can still use Plauti Deduplicate to find and block duplicates when creating or updating records.

  1. Apply one or more scenarios as described in step 2. Applying A Scenario above.
  2. Block saving duplicate records by enabling 'Duplicate Prevention in Native Entry Page Lightning' in Deduplicate Setup > Settings.
  3. Allow override when blocked by adding the Disable Deduplicate checkbox to the page layout (optional). When a duplicate record was found, and users tick the Disable Deduplicate checkbox on the record, they can still save the record via an 'Ignore & Save' button.

So with applying one or more scenarios, and the 'Duplicate Prevention in Native Entry Page Lightning' setting enabled, users will not be able to save a record if duplicates were found to exist; but if you add the Disable Deduplicate checkbox to the page layout, and they have edit rights to that checkbox, they will still be able to save it if needed.

For non-standard and custom objects, you need to create the 'Disable Deduplicate' checkbox first, and the hard-block will only work when the Apex Trigger is created. Find out how in steps 2 and 3 of this article.