Duplicate Account names should not be possible.

[bpaulien]

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[DistroByte]

Can confirm you can have duplicate account names screenshot

[CharlesEkkel]

I've made a PR for this issue as you can see above ^ I figure the simplest way to deal with this is just to add a validation rule when creating accounts.

[MatissJanis]

👋 May I ask: why not? Why should I not be able to have two accounts with the same name if I wanted to?

For example: I might have multiple accounts with the same bank. But these accounts might be of different types: checking, savings, mortgage, investments.

[rich-howell]

👋 May I ask: why not? Why should I not be able to have two accounts with the same name if I wanted to?

For example: I might have multiple accounts with the same bank. But these accounts might be of different types: checking, savings, mortgage, investments.

How would this work for things like importing? How would you differentiate between the two accounts in a drop down?

If I look in my bank I have my bank called starling but inside that is current account and savings account

Having two accounts in the account register with the same name will become confusing.

[j-f1]

Having two accounts in the account register with the same name will become confusing

Agreed, I name mine “USAA Checking” and “USAA Savings” to disambiguate.

Since people might already have duplicate account names I think we should just block any new attempts to save an account name that’s already used rather than having some preemptive approach.

[MatissJanis]

Ok, you convinced me. For import purposes it does make sense to require unique names so we could map 1:1 (we could also use account iDs for that, but it would be.. quite "clunky" experience).

Should we make this a feature request?

[rich-howell]

Should we make this a feature request?

Or is it a bug?

[rich-howell]

Should we make this a feature request?

Or is it a bug?

Took an executive decision, it is a bug.

[Tigatok]

We can handle this on the front-end if we want a quick win, not sure how intense this would be for the backend/at the API level. Let me know if you want me to move to BE.

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