How to append a column to the start of the table

[lostcauz3]

| makeresults | eval TYPE="CHANGES,INCIDENT,PROBLEM,TYPE" | makemv TYPE delim="," |  mvexpand TYPE

|appendcols [subsearch]

the above one is a static column which i want to be appended at the beginning  of the resulting table in the subsearch .

is there anything wrong with the order of the query, please help I'm new to splunk.

[ITWhisperer]

It depends what it is you are trying to do.

You might want to consider a table command to remove the _time column from the makeresults

| makeresults | eval TYPE="CHANGES,INCIDENT,PROBLEM,TYPE" | makemv TYPE delim="," |  mvexpand TYPE 
| table TYPE
| appendcols [search]

[lostcauz3]

I tried out what you said. The TYPE column is appearing first but the order of the columns of the subsearch table is getting jumbled in the result, not sure why that is happening .

[lostcauz3]

Ok so the order of the fields in the subsearch table is getting alphabetically sorted then it is getting appended to this static column type, any idea how I can retain the original field order  of the subsearch table.

[ITWhisperer]

You can use the table command to list the columns in the order you want them

[lostcauz3]

table "string values for kpi names",months
transpose header_field=months column_name=KPI

this is my resultant table from the above query(subsearch) and i want the type column added to the beginning of this resultant table without altering the order of this one.

KPI	Month1	Month2	Month3
data	data	data	data
data	data	data	data
data	data	data	data

[lostcauz3]

The months column is the last 3 months of data and this is dynamically generated. it will be like Oct2021,Sep2021,aug2021 that i've extracted using strftime earlier.

[ITWhisperer]

Transposethe makeresults, append a transposed version of the search, transpose them back again and remove the additional column

| makeresults
| eval TYPE="CHANGES,INCIDENT,PROBLEM" | makemv TYPE delim="," |  mvexpand TYPE 
| table TYPE
| transpose 0
| append 
    [| makeresults
| eval _raw="KPI	Month1	Month2	Month3
data	data	data	data
data	data	data	data
data	data	data	data" 
| multikv forceheader=1
| fields - _raw _time linecount
| transpose 0]
| transpose 0 header_field=column
| fields - column