# Creating a List with duplicate entries

**URL:** <https://forum.bubble.io/t/creating-a-list-with-duplicate-entries/93564>\
**Category:** Need help\
**Created:** [May 24, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/creating-a-list-with-duplicate-entries/93564 "2020-05-24T20:01:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Szymon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/szymon/32/61332_2.png) [@Szymon](https://forum.bubble.io/u/Szymon)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/creating-a-list-with-duplicate-entries/93564/1 "2020-05-24T20:01:08Z")

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Hello Bubblers! 🙂

I am having 8 separate inputs in my app. They look like below:  
 ![Zrzut ekranu 2020-05-24 o 21.44.29](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/a/8/a853dc4b34f5c2fbab12a81f61f9a2a0914cde24.png)  
(example data filled)

I need to create a list basing on those inputs. For the above inputs, the desired list shoud look like below:

> `ABC, DEF, GHA, GHA, DEF, , POD, XXR`

- As you can observe, the GHA and DEF entries are saved double into the list, as input by user
- There is also empty list item between DEF and POD entries, as input by user

I’m now using the :plus item function. While it does add an empty item to the list (that’s perfect), it also merges the duplicate entries (which is unwanted). The result is:

> `ABC, DEF, GHA, , POD, XXR`

As a result the list has 6 entries instead of 8 and is incomplete. How can I do it the other way to make sure that the duplicates aren’t removed and the list contains all 8 input texts?

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**Author:** ![Szymon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/szymon/32/61332_2.png) [@Szymon](https://forum.bubble.io/u/Szymon)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/creating-a-list-with-duplicate-entries/93564/2 "2020-05-25T15:17:30Z")

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Support in this case would be very welcome, as this is pretty much a blocker for my app development. ☹  
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**Author:** ![J805](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/j805/32/41267_2.png) [@J805](https://forum.bubble.io/u/J805)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/creating-a-list-with-duplicate-entries/93564/3 "2020-05-26T19:05:49Z")

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Hey there,

For some reason Bubble doesn’t allow duplicates of text. I have tested it myself and see the same thing. @eve is this a bug or is this intended?

Also, instead of using text you can save each piece of text as a new data type “input”. Each piece of data would have a unique ID which would allow you to save duplicates. Then you can attach it as a list of “inputs” instead of a list of text.

> **Want to learn more?**
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> [www.nocodeminute.com](http://www.nocodeminute.com)
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> ![Presenting](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/6/5/65f6fab3efed1c82ed9ceb6b067f755e0766996c.gif)

Hope that helps! 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/2/8/2847faa74692c2ffa5d939d3dc3724cdd060d247.png) [@system](https://forum.bubble.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/creating-a-list-with-duplicate-entries/93564/4 "2020-08-02T20:01:10Z")

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