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How to set token from specific row & field in a table?

htrednek
Explorer

Ok, so I'm trying to consolidate some searches and one sticking point is that I've got an ugly base search chased by another doing an appendpipe to give me a summary row. Ideally I'd like it to be one search, however, I need to set tokens from the values in the summary but cannot seem to make that happen outside of the separate search.
I know it uses the $result.fieldname$ method and drilldowns use $row.column$. I'm kinda hoping there's a hybrid to specify the row# or last row specifically using the $result.xxx$ style. (If there is, I can 't get the syntax correct...)

<search id="bigolquery">
    <query> yadda yadda </query>
</search>
<search id="bigolsumm" base="bigoldquery">
    <query> 
        | appendpipe [ stats sum(fld1) as fld1 sum(fld2) as fld2 
        | eval fldavg=round(fld1/fld2*100,1)]
    </query>
    <done>
        <set token="fld1val">$result.fld1$</set>
        <set token="fld2val">$result.fld2$</set>
        <set token="fldavgval">$result.fldavg$</set>
    </done>
</search>
1 Solution

woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Add this:

... | eventstats last(xxx) AS _last_xxx

Then every row has an invisible field called _last_xxx with the last value of xxx so you can then use $result._last_xxx$.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Add this:

... | eventstats last(xxx) AS _last_xxx

Then every row has an invisible field called _last_xxx with the last value of xxx so you can then use $result._last_xxx$.

htrednek
Explorer

This works perfectly. Thank you!

niketn
Legend

@htrednek the default token $result.<fieldname>$ fetches the first row of result. So crooked way would be you use | reverse in your subsearch and your last row will become first row. Hence the $result.<fieldname>$ token will access the value from the last row.

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Are you using bigolsumm query in any visualization Or it's just for setting the token?

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htrednek
Explorer

yes. It's displayed as part of the table as well as setting the tokens.

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Ok.... as far as I know, you can't set tokens from specific row number in the table. What you can do is create another search which is not used in any visualization but is using base="bigoldquery" and running your appendpipe stats are regular stats. The purpose of this search will be just to set tokens.

<search id="bigolsummtok" base="bigoldquery">
     <query> 
         |  stats sum(fld1) as fld1 sum(fld2) as fld2 
         | eval fldavg=round(fld1/fld2*100,1)
     </query>
     <done>
         <set token="fld1val">$result.fld1$</set>
         <set token="fld2val">$result.fld2$</set>
         <set token="fldavgval">$result.fldavg$</set>
     </done>
 </search>
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