39 Posts
10 years ago
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Hi! I have a content type frontend form that allows users to submit information. The article title field is used in the frontend to allow the user to create a name for their submitted content item. Everything works fine, but when someone enters the same title in a next form submission they get an error because the alias is already created. So how do I prevent this? Is there a way to check if the title already existst in the database?
39 Posts
10 years ago
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Hi, solved it. I added a validation to the article title field for the frontend form. I used the Ajax 'Availability' validation on the #__content table, Column :'title'.
215 Posts
10 years ago
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Does this still prompt the user for a new title or does it automatically generate a different alias, e.g. by adding a digit, or other?
IN my case, I did use the Concat type field using
<content> to add the next id separate with " - ", e.g.
#trf_owner#||#trf_patient#||#trf_clinic_name#||<content>
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10 years ago
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Yeah.. that's right.. glad you find a workaround...
693 Posts
10 years ago
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Hi!
Another way that I have found to do this is to use Simon's SD Field Concat found here.
You might want to create a title using the first_name and last_name, but if the same name is used more than once then changing their name is not an option... So you can concatenate first_name, last_name and date for example...
Hope that helps!
Another way that I have found to do this is to use Simon's SD Field Concat found here.
You might want to create a title using the first_name and last_name, but if the same name is used more than once then changing their name is not an option... So you can concatenate first_name, last_name and date for example...
Hope that helps!