Creating an unique custom field

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Tagged: Content-submission forms, CRED API, Toolset Forms

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Last updated by Waqar 4 years, 3 months ago.

Assisted by: Waqar.

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October 31, 2020 at 2:46 pm #1830623

kelvinL-2

Dear Sir/Madam,

Can I create a custom field and assign it as a unique field? For example, I want to add the mobile number field to user profile, I don't want more than one user can input the same number, or I create custom post "bank", there is no duplicated bank number allowed.

Can I do that? If not, any alternative solution? Will Toolset consider it?

best regards,

Kelvin.

November 3, 2020 at 8:25 am #1832855

Waqar

Hi Kelvin,

Thank you for contacting us and I'd be happy to assist.

If your website's users are using the Toolset's front-end forms to add data into these fields, then you can use the "cred_form_validate" hook for this check for duplicate entries:
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/cred-api/#cred_form_validate

You'll find an example snippet for a similar requirement in this reply:
https://toolset.com/forums/topic/need-to-validate-unique-values-in-post-field/#post-1201756

I hope this helps and please let me know if you need any further assistance around this.

regards,
Waqar