Skip a member in import format

Hi All,
I'm creating an import format for a location to load a csv file.
In that I need to skip an entity(actually 20+ entities) related data while importing.
But "SKIP" is not working here.
FIELD NAME FIELD NUMBER NUMBER OF FIELDS EXPRESSION
Skip 3 4 2219
Above combination is not working while import. All record with 2219 got loaded and failing at validation.
Is "SKIP" mentioned for the same purpose?
Is there any possiblity to skip a particular combination member as well using SKIP? (EX:- abcdxx1234, ijklxx5678 - member contains xx should be skipped)
Target is Planning Application, Adapter ES 11x-G4-H
Facing one more issue.
This is first time i'm using essbase adapter.
When I try to import map, import completed successful from excel. But no map got updated.
Map not getting updated even with a single member.
Thanks in advance.

Those entities should be skipped as long as the value 2219 is found in Field3 so it must not be matching 2219 against any values in that field. Are you sure there are no whitespace characters in the source field? Another option would be to map the Entity 2219 (and other entities you are not interested in to a target of IGNORE in youe Entity mapping. You can Skip based on a particular combination but this would require an import script to define the more complex criteria and execute the skip.
In terms of your mapping import issue are you sure that the Location ID specified in your Excel mapping template actually corresponds to the Location ypou are trying to import the maps to?

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We have a requirement our source file is CSV file ( Delimter file) in that we have below records
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1001         USD              C001                  1000
1002         INR               C002                   2000
1003         EUR             C003                   3000
From the above data we want only USD data records to be imported in FDM .like this
1001     C001       1000
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Can anyone help me in resolving this

Thanks for the quick reply SH
We don't have currency dimension Filed in the import format. below are examples of our source file and import format
Currency column is in source file , but it will not be in import format
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1001         USD              C001                  1000
1002         INR               C002                   2000
1003         EUR             C003                   3000
Field Name            Field Number    Numberof Fields           Expression
Account                    1                      4
CostCenter                3                      4
Amount                     4                       4
Skip                          2                       4                             Script=Skip.uss
After your reply i have corrected my script and written below script
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strSkip = strField
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now also its importing all the records it not skipping INR AND USD records data
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Thanks for your help. It works fine with the script. Now it return only the rows I need.
I only inverted the condition so if it's CAD, the function return the value, else it skip the line (to exclude USD, EUR or any other currency it may encounter in the future).
Thanks again.
My script looks like that :
Function SelectCADLines(strField, strRecord)
'UpStream WebLink DM DataPump Import Script:
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'Date Created: 2/19/2013 10:35 AM
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Dim strAccount
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