The extension is licensed under AGPL-3.0.
This extension offers a modular and flexible alternative to CiviCRM's built-in deduplication system. It is designed to be
- fast and scalable: CiviCRM's built-in solution tends to run into problems with large data sets
- highly configurable: you have almost 60 modules to be used for your configuration, and there's new ones being added all the time.
- automated: once you have worked out a configuration that is rock solid, you can schedule it to be executed automatically on a regular basis
- offers automated conflict resolution modules
Automated merges on CiviCRM contacts can be very hard to undo, so be sure to have you database backed up before experimenting. Ideally you would work on a separate test system until you know what you're doing.
- PHP v7.4+
- CiviCRM 5.29+
This is an extension not (yet) listed by default in the CiviCRM extension panel. Please refer to the CiviCRM documentation on how to install such an extension.
Once installed, you can access the X-Dedupe system via the "Administer => Automation" menu.
Note: The following is a quick readme, you can find a more thorough documentation HERE.
The control room lets you create, refine, test, and apply a particular deduplication configuration.
For more details please refer to the documentation HERE.
The configuration manager gives you an overview of all your saved X-Dedupe configurations. You can then decide to enable each of them:
- for manual, supervised execution via the control panel
- for manual, automated execution, i.e. by clicking a button.
- for scheduled automated execution, e.g. if you have a safe(!) cleanup routine to run every night
You will need the administer CiviCRM permission to use this extension, since
it allows profound and automated changes to be applied to the database.