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Merge Requests - How do they work?

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I recently discovered a Data Integrity feature called Merge Requests. It seems like a great tool to allow staff the ability to flag potentially duplicated records but I'm confused on its usage. The scant documentation on it say it allows those without permissions to actually merge records the ability to request a merge. But how would such a person even request a merge? Since they don't have the proper rights, they can't see the Merge People page or the Merge icon at the bottom of any list. Perhaps this isn't even talking about merging duplicate records but the Merge Template feature?

Thanks in advance!

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  • Photo of David Leigh

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    If the user has View permission for the Person Merge page, the Merge icon is shown in the list (unless it is explicity hidden for a particular block). Where the user does not also have Edit permission for the Person Merge page, a merge request is created and assigned to Data Integrity workers instead.

    I had to dig into the code to find this, so it's probably worth flagging this as an area where the documentation could use some improvement!