Context:
I run controlled snowball surveys - respondents can add names not in the original Supplementary list to that list and if those names are in scope to the project their names are added to the Primary List to receive a copy of the survey.
At times for whatever reason a respondent will fail to identify the name in the list (ie format, spelling) and then enter a duplicate name in different format/spelling.
At the moment I have to identify duplicates and reformat the name and append the term ‘duplicate’ to the correctly formatted name to keep the list ‘tidy’ - so two or more instances of the person may be on the list. Final duplicate resolution happens at the end of the survey.
Feature request:
A merge names function that allows the identification and resolution of duplicates during a survey.
It would allow me to identify duplicates added to supplementary list and for Polinode to amend all instances of the resulting duplicate targets to the correctly formatted name and remove the duplicates from supplementary list.