Create Contacts with same FisrtName, Lastname via API

[BillVelasquez]

Hi,

When creating a new Contact via API, if a Contact with same Firstname and Lastname exists, we get HTTP Status 409 (Conflict) after POSTing the contact.

Is there a way to allow creating contacts with same name via API?

Thanks in advance

[tanya]

Hi,
add to createEntity params forceDuplicate=true
(read application/Espo/Services/Record.php)

https://forum.espocrm.com/forum/general/24671-error-502-duplicate-data

[BillVelasquez]

Thank you Tanya!

"forceDuplicate":true in my JSON payload made the magic.

This should be included in the API documentation

[yuri]

An official way is using an HTTP header "X-Skip-Duplicate-Check: true"

https://docs.espocrm.com/development/api/crud/#create