# How to prevent form submissions creating new contacts
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-prevent-form-submissions-creating-new-contacts/52740
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**Created:** [October 27, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-prevent-form-submissions-creating-new-contacts/52740 "2022-10-27T22:42:45Z")
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### Author:  [@jamesmctaggart](https://community.glideapps.com/u/jamesmctaggart)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-prevent-form-submissions-creating-new-contacts/52740/1 "2022-10-27T22:42:45Z")
Hey everyone!
I work for a media company who manages a collection of public Spotify playlists. We receive a large volume of submissions every week so I’ve been working on a form and dashboard through Glide where submissions can be made, then automatically added to a “pending for review tab” in our admin dashboard. From there, I’ve setup automations which automatically create a contact for that submission in the “Contacts” tab. But if an existing contact submits another song, they end up being added to the “Contacts” list again. Is there a way for Glide to check if a contact already exists? By checking for the same first & last name and email perhaps?
Ideally, I’d like the song submission to go through to the pending submission page, without a new contact being generated if they already exist in the contacts table.
Hope I explained this well
Cheers,
James
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-prevent-form-submissions-creating-new-contacts/52740/2 "2022-10-27T23:28:20Z")
You may want to consider custom forms. This will allow you to build relations to check for existing contacts. Then you can set up a custom action to add a new contact row only if the relation is empty.
> [@How do I create a custom form?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-i-create-a-custom-form/25014):
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> I’m just dropping this here so I have something to refer people to when they ask. This is a simple concept app (copyable), that demonstrates the following techniques: Building custom forms for adding and editing list items (as an alternative to the native forms provided by Glide) Preventing duplicate new entries using [User Specific Columns](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/reference/data-editor/user-specific-columns) and [Relations](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/reference/data-editor/computed-columns/relation-column) Enforcing mandatory input items The use of visibility conditions and user specific booleans to control user flow There is nothing particula…
You could also try this with a native form that has an Add Row action in the On Submit action. I’ve heard that relations partially work in a native form, as far as checking if they are empty or not, but I’ve never tried it myself. I’ve been using custom forms more often lately.