Remove Duplicates

Overview

This module helps the administrator to easily remove duplicate nodes according to one of the node fields.

Features

The duplicate nodes found are permanently removed. It can be very useful with Drupal Feeds module (Feeds).

Requirements

• Drupal 7

Screenshots

Known problems

- No reports yet.

Documentation

• Check out README.txt

Tutorials

To use this module :

First step :

1. Select the node type from which you want to remove duplicates.
2. Select the field which is going to be used to group nodes (basic or custom field).
3. Select a layout for found duplicates (list, table, tableselect)
   • list : display found duplicates as a list with duplicates to remove autoselection
   • table : display found duplicates as table with duplicates to remove autoselection
   • tableselect : display found duplicates as tableselect with duplicates to remove manual selection
4. (optional : for list and table only) : Keep at least one published node. Tweaks the way the autoselection works. If checked, the first published node found in a set of duplicates will be kept, the others removed. Else, the first node found even if it's not published will be kept, and the others removed.
5. Find duplicates.

Second step :

1. Check the results.
2. (optional : for tableselect only) : Check or uncheck the nodes you want to remove or keep.
3. Remove duplicates !