# How to prevent record duplicate by the Smart Action

**URL:** <https://community.forestadmin.com/t/how-to-prevent-record-duplicate-by-the-smart-action/7883>\
**Category:** Help me!\
**Tags:** howtos\
**Created:** [February 18, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/how-to-prevent-record-duplicate-by-the-smart-action/7883 "2025-02-18T17:40:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Avishai\_Lippner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/avishai_lippner/32/5498_2.png) [@Avishai\_Lippner](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Avishai_Lippner)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/how-to-prevent-record-duplicate-by-the-smart-action/7883/1 "2025-02-18T17:40:17Z")

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is there a way to prevent row duplication?

I want to prevent duplication of a record for it has 1to1 relationship with another model, which gets transferred to the new record unintentionally, and I want to prevent users from making that mistake.  
I couldn’t found any standard way in the project settings to do such thing

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- Project name: Empathy
- Team name: All Teams
- Environment name: Production
- Agent technology: nodejs
- Agent (forest package) name & version: 9.3.20
- Database type: Postgres
- Recent changes made on your end if any: none

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**Author:** ![anon62739609](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@anon62739609](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon62739609)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 8:17am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/how-to-prevent-record-duplicate-by-the-smart-action/7883/2 "2025-02-19T08:17:56Z")

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Hi @Avishai_Lippner,

If you disable the `Create` permissions in the roles permissions, it will hide the duplicate button 😉.  
Does it fix your issue ?

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**Author:** ![Avishai\_Lippner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/avishai_lippner/32/5498_2.png) [@Avishai\_Lippner](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Avishai_Lippner)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 8:55am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/how-to-prevent-record-duplicate-by-the-smart-action/7883/3 "2025-02-19T08:55:57Z")

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It fixed the issue 🙌