Unique Custom Properties - Update existing records upon import rather than failing

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Hi yall. Grateful HubSpot allows us to set custom properties as “unique” allowing only one record to exist with a value unique to that record.

We use this for importing Applications as Deals, and use the Application_ID as a unique value.

Currently, when attempting to import an Application that has already been imported, the line will fail, noting “‘application_id’ property requires a unique value but was set to a value already in use”
We would actually prefer the second import updates that Deal rather than failing, similar to how a Contacts unique identifier (email address) would update a contact on second import rather than failing.

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Hey @Jon_Sasala -- hope you’re doing well!

The situation you described should be how these unique IDs work within import. If that’s not the case for your imports, I’d want to dive into that.

We just rolled out support for custom unique IDs for contacts, so now all objects can be updated via a custom unique ID within import.

- Alex

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