Transitioning From Zapier & Only looking for new records

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:bullseye: What is your goal?

I am interested in using Make, but I have a critical problem. I already have live Automations in Zapier that use new records in an existing mySQL table. When I ran a test in Make, it wanted to go to record #1 in my table. How do you transition live automations in Make without double posting all of your old data? Also, how do you throttle the number of times an automation can run? I burned through my free account data in a minute by accidentally going back to old records.

:thinking: What is the problem?

Transitioning automations from Zapier to Make without double posting data already done on Zapier automations.

:test_tube: What have you tried so far?

I tried creating a test automation and I burned through my account in 10 minutes.

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Hello @Brian_Broadbent,

Welcome to the Community!

There is no Watch New Items module for MySQL in Make.com.
You need, for example, a Created Time timestamp column to search for items created after the previous scenario run.
Unfortunately, you will have to build polling logic for that and continuously poll MySQL to watch for new database items.

I suggest setting up correct filters- for example, limiting the number of bundles that can flow from polling modules to the next ones.

You can learn more about triggers in Make here: Types of modules - Help Center

Have a nice day,
Michal

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