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Comparison of two assets side by side to findout duplicates
You may find in your inventory a device with missing data. You scratch your head because you're sure it was properly filled a few days or weeks ago.
After some searching you discover this asset may be a duplicate of an other. Added by someone despite it already exists, or imported twice by an automatic inventory tool.
To ease comparison between two assets, GLPI should display them in a single page, side by side and show differences. Three buttons would help to solve the "conflict" : merge, delete A or delete B.
After some searching you discover this asset may be a duplicate of an other. Added by someone despite it already exists, or imported twice by an automatic inventory tool.
To ease comparison between two assets, GLPI should display them in a single page, side by side and show differences. Three buttons would help to solve the "conflict" : merge, delete A or delete B.
Customer support service by UserEcho
Such feature would be useful in situation as described (where you already lost time finding out that there are duplicates in you inventory).
A possible workaround is to use text-format (eg. CSV) export.
that would be really useful. Not just for finding duplicates but just for comparison. Possible compare two or more.
GLPI already has a mechanism to control the unicity of objects (menu Configuration > Unicity).
You can add rules to block object creations according to the desired criteria, and you can directly see also in this rule (tab "Duplicates"), objects that are already duplicates.
http://glpi-project.org/DOC/EN/glpi/config_controls_unicity.html
Since you don't have a unicity rule yet (otherwise you wouldn't have duplicates ^^), to fix them you can use the "uninstall" plugin (https://github.com/pluginsGLPI/uninstall) and its "replace" model.
Example : Serial unicity on Computers.