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How to deal with lookup with empty columns?

woodentree
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Hi,

We have a huge lookup file with accounts’ data. Some of lookup’s columns has a value for each account, lake ‘username’ or ‘startdate’. However, another one may have no value at all, like ‘subcontractor’.

When we perform a search like subcontractor=company_A it works great, but when we perform a search like subcontractor=* it returns no result.

The only solution we were able to find is to use an eval function to create an empty value for every column:

 

| eval subcontractor =if(isnotnull(subcontractor), subcontractor,"")

 

It works but it doesn’t looks like the right way to do it, especially if you have dozens columns like this one. Do you now a better way to deal with lookup’s columns?

Thanks for the help.

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| fillnull value="N/A"

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| fillnull value="N/A"

woodentree
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Exactly!

Thanks for the help.

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