# Ability to prevent duplicate records from being created

**URL:** <https://community.noloco.io/t/ability-to-prevent-duplicate-records-from-being-created/1874>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** feature-request\
**Created:** [April 14, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/ability-to-prevent-duplicate-records-from-being-created/1874 "2025-04-14T16:22:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![kayla\_rcvr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@kayla\_rcvr](https://community.noloco.io/u/kayla_rcvr)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/ability-to-prevent-duplicate-records-from-being-created/1874/1 "2025-04-14T16:22:29Z")

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When a new record is being added, we would like for it to be required that the primary field is a unique value to our the base.

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**Author:** ![darragh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/darragh/32/12_2.png) [@darragh](https://community.noloco.io/u/darragh)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/ability-to-prevent-duplicate-records-from-being-created/1874/2 "2025-04-14T16:29:49Z")

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This is possible with a Noloco field on a Noloco table.

Unfortunately, if you’re using Airtable (which I believe you are) it’s not something Airtable enforce, and such it’s not something Noloco can support with Airtable