Answers.Body: <p>CiviCRM is telling you that there is no "supervised" rule configured for the Individual contact type - it doesn't know how to check that those "friends" are new unique contacts and not existing donors/members/contributors etc.</p>
  
  <p>There's some information on <a href="https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/common-workflows/deduping-and-merging/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">deduping and merging contacts</a> in the <a href="https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CiviCRM User Guide</a></p>
  
  <p>In particular please check that you have a supervised rule configured for individuals as seen in the screenshot on the first linked page.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: does it make sense that Supervised is actually involved - wouldn't this be an Unsupervised Rule? so while the fact one is missing, is it actually being used. If it is using 'supervised' that seems to imply that if i enter an email then i will be told if it already is in the system, and i dn't think we should be divulging that info at that point should we
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Answers.Text: I actually didn't have either an unsupervised or a supervised rule for individuals. I just made both and tell a friend worked! Can't say which was responsible for it tho.
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Body: <p>When I click "tell a friend" and submit my friend's name and email after I've made a contribution on our contribution page I get error, "Supervised Rule for Individual Doesn't Exist" -- what does this mean? How can I fix this so our contributors can share information about our organization? </p>
  
Tags: <civicontribute><contribution-page>
Title: Option to Tell a Friend
ThreadText: # Option to Tell a Friend
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-02-18)
  
  When I click "tell a friend" and submit my friend's name and email after I've made a contribution on our contribution page I get error, "Supervised Rule for Individual Doesn't Exist" -- what does this mean? How can I fix this so our contributors can share information about our organization?
  
  **Tags:** civicontribute, contribution-page
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2020-02-18. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  CiviCRM is telling you that there is no "supervised" rule configured for the Individual contact type - it doesn't know how to check that those "friends" are new unique contacts and not existing donors/members/contributors etc.
  
  There's some information on [deduping and merging contacts](https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/common-workflows/deduping-and-merging/) in the [CiviCRM User Guide](https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/)
  
  In particular please check that you have a supervised rule configured for individuals as seen in the screenshot on the first linked page.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: does it make sense that Supervised is actually involved - wouldn't this be an Unsupervised Rule? so while the fact one is missing, is it actually being used. If it is using 'supervised' that seems to imply that if i enter an email then i will be told if it already is in the system, and i dn't think we should be divulging that info at that point should we  
  > **username_0**: I actually didn't have either an unsupervised or a supervised rule for individuals. I just made both and tell a friend worked! Can't say which was responsible for it tho.  
  > **username_1**: I’ll do some testing @petednz-fuzion and work out which and make sure we’re not disclosing!  
  
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