jbrass
Frequent Contributor

Count Duplicates Based on Text Field

Hello!

I'm running into a problem that I'm struggling to solve and was hoping that I could get some help here. I have a numbered list that represents employees. Sometimes, employees are converted from part-time to full-time and when this happens, they are assigned a new employee ID. I need to be able to identify cases where there are multiple list items that represent the same individual (based on a text field that shows their name). In excel, this would be accomplished by using a countif formula. I'd like to know if there is a simple solution that I'm just not seeing. I think I could create a new list based on the concatenation of employee ID and name, and then have the name be a list property and then do a count based on that, but I'd like to know if there is a solution that requires less steps (preferably no need for a new list or import action). Screenshot below; The "Count of items" field is what I'd like to make formulaic.

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Thank you!

Josh

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jbrass
Frequent Contributor

Thank you@kevin.cho, this works perfectly.

Thank you@rob_marshalland@Misbahfor your help and commentary as well.

Philippe
Contributor

@kevin.cho

thanks a lot.

Very simple, you save my life:grinning_face: