# Confusing Instructions

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/confusing-instructions/24829>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [July 21, 2022, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/confusing-instructions/24829 "2022-07-21T13:28:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![miamiman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/miamiman/32/1118_2.png) [@miamiman](https://forum.mautic.org/u/miamiman)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/confusing-instructions/24829/1 "2022-07-21T13:28:13Z")

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![Screenshot_5](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/1/18012e489e5eec9bf15c857c7883058f2321827f.png)

Don’t overwrite value if already exists: =\> No / Yes.

What does this mean? It’d be a lot clear if written,

Overwrite value if already exists: =\> No / Yes, but I’m not certain that’s the logic here?

Would someone advise?

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**Author:** ![joeyk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/joeyk/32/11164_2.png) [@joeyk](https://forum.mautic.org/u/joeyk)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/confusing-instructions/24829/2 "2022-07-21T13:47:47Z")

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It means:

It means, that it will overwrite all values.  
If you turn it as YES, then it won’t overwrite it.

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**Author:** ![miamiman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/miamiman/32/1118_2.png) [@miamiman](https://forum.mautic.org/u/miamiman)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/confusing-instructions/24829/3 "2022-07-21T14:19:21Z")

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Ok … **NO** will overwrite the current values.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![joeyk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/joeyk/32/11164_2.png) [@joeyk](https://forum.mautic.org/u/joeyk)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/confusing-instructions/24829/4 "2022-07-22T07:26:47Z")

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Cool. I hope this won’t cause no misunderstanding

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**Author:** ![steverobinson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/steverobinson/32/174_2.png) [@steverobinson](https://forum.mautic.org/u/steverobinson)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/confusing-instructions/24829/5 "2022-07-22T19:24:28Z")

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For background, when we commissioned this PR, we were told that the convention in Mautic is to default options to “No”, and this should follow the same pattern. The language of the label had to be flipped in logic.

It is unfortunate. Hopefully we can flip the logic and language to “Overwrite value if field is populated” with a default of “Yes” in Mautic 5.

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**Author:** ![miamiman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/miamiman/32/1118_2.png) [@miamiman](https://forum.mautic.org/u/miamiman)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 10:51am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/confusing-instructions/24829/6 "2022-07-25T10:51:00Z")

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Agree. The double negative is confusing.