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Create a Field Static Value Based on Rule

chrisboy68
Contributor

Hi,

I have a field called "Applications". I want to populate this field from events based on a patterns.


date: xxxxxx

foobar

Based on the above example, I want to check for date:xxxxx followed by "foobar" and populate the field "Applications" with "MyApplcationName".

How can I go about doing this?

Thank you,

Chris

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lguinn2
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You could do this:

yoursearchhere
| eval Applications=if(match(_raw,"date:xxxxx.*foobar"),"MyApplcationName",Applications)

You could even create a calculated field if you want this to be done automatically for every search.

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lguinn2
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You could do this:

yoursearchhere
| eval Applications=if(match(_raw,"date:xxxxx.*foobar"),"MyApplcationName",Applications)

You could even create a calculated field if you want this to be done automatically for every search.

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chrisboy68
Contributor

Perfect. Calculated fields is where I needed to be pointed to. Got it working.

Thank you!

Chris

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