Duplicate Review

Review and manage potential duplicate survey responses

The Duplicate Review dashboard helps you identify and resolve potential duplicate responses collected in your surveys.

When to Use It

  • When duplicate detection flags responses that may be the same submission
  • When you need to merge duplicate responses or decide to keep both
  • When you want to review duplicates by survey, status, or confidence

How to Access This Page

  1. Log in to the application
  2. From the sidebar, navigate to Data → Duplicate Review
  3. Or, directly navigate to /duplicates in your browser

Permissions or prerequisites

  • You must be logged in to access this page
  • You need appropriate permissions (typically submission:view or full access)

Page Layout

The page shows a table of duplicate groups with filters at the top:

Filters

  • Survey: Filter by a specific form, or show all forms
  • Status: Filter by Flagged, Merged, Discarded, or Kept Both
  • Min confidence: Set a minimum confidence score to filter groups
  • From date / To date: Filter by when the duplicate group was created

Duplicate Groups Table

Each row shows:

  • Primary Response: The main response in the group
  • Duplicate Response: The potential duplicate
  • Confidence: Confidence score for the match
  • Survey: The form the responses belong to
  • Created: When the group was created
  • Status: Current status of the group
  • Actions: Options to change status or merge

Step-by-Step Tasks

Review Duplicate Groups

  1. Use the filters to narrow down the groups you want to review
  2. Look at the Primary and Duplicate responses and their confidence scores
  3. Click the action menu for a group to review or take action

Change Group Status

  1. Find the duplicate group in the table
  2. Use the status dropdown/action to set status to Merged, Discarded, or Kept Both
  3. The status will update and the group will reflect the new state

Merge Duplicate Responses

  1. Find a flagged duplicate group
  2. Click Merge (or the merge action) for that group
  3. In the merge wizard, review the two responses side by side
  4. Choose which values to keep from each response
  5. Complete the merge to combine them into one response

Tips & Notes

  • Start by reviewing groups with higher confidence scores first
  • Use the date filters to focus on recent duplicates
  • Merging combines responses according to your choices in the merge wizard
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