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After creating field extractions using the field extractor in Splunk Web, why are none of the fields returned in search results?

dbcase
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Hi,

First time trying this. I have the below data. Using the | character as a delimiter, then going thru the field extractor GUI, it extracts 5 fields. So far so good. Then I rename 3 of the fields to a more descriptive name. Then it asks me to save it which I do, then there is an option to do a search with the fields I've just defined. I click on it and it shows a search, but none of the fields I just defined are there. Very strange. What am I missing?

15:15:55.664 | [[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '2' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] | DEBUG | splunk - | {'externalRefId':'exr654321','message':'RMA service return 202','serverResponseTimeMs':'143'}
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dbcase
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found a way to get this to work..... Cleared out all the events and recreated new ones. Then the field extractor worked....better, not perfect but much better than before

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dbcase
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found a way to get this to work..... Cleared out all the events and recreated new ones. Then the field extractor worked....better, not perfect but much better than before

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