From 7fe76656f2aa583b1647fb5d91f9bf7a01792e68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: shamoon <4887959+shamoon@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 12:58:50 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix: editing of existing custom fields violates throws unique
 error

---
 src/documents/serialisers.py | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/documents/serialisers.py b/src/documents/serialisers.py
index 48e26dea3..546a8d8e7 100644
--- a/src/documents/serialisers.py
+++ b/src/documents/serialisers.py
@@ -463,7 +463,14 @@ class CustomFieldSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
             "name",
             self.instance.name if hasattr(self.instance, "name") else None,
         )
-        if ("name" in attrs) and self.Meta.model.objects.filter(
+        objects = (
+            self.Meta.model.objects.exclude(
+                pk=self.instance.pk,
+            )
+            if self.instance is not None
+            else self.Meta.model.objects.all()
+        )
+        if ("name" in attrs) and objects.filter(
             name=name,
         ).exists():
             raise serializers.ValidationError(