How can I enable email duplication check? 

Users with the Customize Zoho Recruit permission in profile can enable this feature. All the Administrators will receive an email notification, when this feature is enabled or disabled. Please note that you need to enable it separately for the Candidates and Contacts module. Once it is enabled, all the users can use it and they will be notified while adding a candidate or a contact whose email address already exists in Recruit.

To enable the feature:

  1. Click Setup > Customization > Layout.
  2. In the Edit Page Layout page, select the Candidates/Contacts module.
    You need to enable it separately for the Candidates and Contacts module.
  3. Select the Do not allow duplicates in Email field check box.
  4. Click Save.
    You can disable this feature by unchecking the Do not allow duplicates in Email field check box.

Usage

 

There are different ways of adding a record in Zoho Recruit. You can fill the candidate/contact form, clone a record, use the web forms, import records, use API and use many other ways to add records. Below, you will find the various scenarios when email duplication check is performed.

  • Create and Edit records - You will get a notification message and you will not be able to save the record if the email address already exists in another record.
  • Related Lists - The email address duplication check will also be done when you create contacts in Related Lists.
  • Lookup pop-up box - While creating leads/contacts from the lookup field's pop-up box, email address duplication check will be performed.
  • Web form - Only records pulled from web-to-candidate/contact forms will have the email duplication check. In case there is a duplicate found, it will automatically overwrite the original record. If the duplication check is disabled, then it will create a duplicate record.
  • Clone - When you clone a record, in the Clone Candidate/Contact page, the Email value will be automatically removed. You can add a different email address and save the record.
  • Import - With the email address duplication check enabled, the Clone option will be disabled. You will be able to choose either Skip or Overwrite option as an action item for duplicate entries. When you choose the option to overwrite, Candidate/Contact ID cannot be mapped.
  • Mobile App - While adding a record using the Zoho Recruit Mobile App, duplicate check will be performed and you will not be able to create duplicate Candidates or Contacts.
  • For API Methods - Following are the scenarios, when the email address duplication check is enabled:
    • insertRecord API Method - Using this API method, if you add a record with an email address that already exists in the Recruit account, you will receive a notification message: <message>Record(s) already exists</message>. The record will not be added.
    • updateRecord API Method - Using this API method, if you update the Email field in a record, the email address duplication check will be performed. If a similar email address already exists in the Recruit account, then the record will not be updated. While updating multiple records, it will be skipped. 
    • convertCandidate API Method - Using this API method, if you convert a lead, the email address duplication check will be performed. If a similar email address already exists in the Recruit account, then the record will not be converted.

Note:

  • When this feature is enabled, in the Page Layout, the Email field cannot be removed. Also, you cannot remove the section that contains the email field.
  • If the Zoho defined Email field is hidden, this feature will not be available.
 

Limitations

 

Email address duplication check will not be performed in the following scenarios:

  • Updating or adding records using Zoho Sheet View.
  • During Data Migration.
  • Restoring records from the Recycle Bin.
  • Synchronizing contacts using Zoho Recruit Plug-in for Microsoft Outlook, QuickBooks, Google Contacts Sync features