Filemaker Pro Import New Records

I am trying to import only new records from a coom delimted file into my filemaker data base. Each time I import, all of the records get imported and not just the ones with new id numbers. This is a list of about 9000 records and it would be very time consuming to weed out all of the duplicates. Does anyone have a solution for this?
Any ideas would be welcome.
AKS

Hi Con,
As a practical scenario, your file may contain records for update as well as create action during imports process.
MDM has got a standard functionality for this as a import action which can be sent at a global level or at a record level based on the matching criteria.
The process is as below:
1. Select the source and destination
2. Do field mapping
3. Select fields for Value Matching (These fields are used to identify duplicates)
4. Based on a match type the import action can be defined as a global action.
For individual records, you can set the action in below Record Matching window.
Hope this clarifies.
Regards,
Sambhaji
If this has answered you question, kindly change the status of question to "probelm resolved" and very helpful answer.

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In the Match records I see that the new records are being shipped. (as there is no match to any record in MDM)
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Hi Con,
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We defined one Port to import all supplier catalogues. In the port, we enter the Import map which is to be used for all suppliers. All suppliers deliver their catalogue in a predefined and fixed format.
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srmmdm20/helpdata/en/30/96cbb9f3cd40b5bfc4cef178880e66/content.htm
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1001            8002
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The answer is given in Patch 4.
Note 1292931. https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1292931
After this patch dynamic filtering can be done. See copy text from note below.
For more info look at article on SDN Using Dynamic Record Filtering in MDM Import Manager. https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/d0245870-0adf-2b10-46a8-ca9dcf8e1a4d
We have not yet implemented it but is seems to solve the problem.
Kind Regards,
Job Jansen
Extract Note 1292931:
MDM Import Manager:
Enhanced: Support for dynamic source/destination filter. Added a virtual value "[Mapped Values]" into the matching fields filter. When this value is selected, ImportManager and MDIS will substitute it with all the map values of the lookup field during record matching. This creates a generic map that supports source/destination filters that are based on map values instead of fixed values.
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