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Display multi date_wday values in single column

ahogbin
Communicator

Hello,

I am attempting (unsuccessfully so far) to display multiple date_wday values in a single table column.

My search checks for errors over a 7 day period. There are errors that occur on multiple days or may only occur after a certain day (in the case of application updates etc).

My end aim is to produce table that has the error and the days that the error occurred on.
<Search> | table error dayserroroccurredon

++Output++
ERROR XXXXX Mon, Tues, Wed
ERROR XXXXX Wed, Thursday

I have tried various appends but none give me the result I want and simply put each day on a new line

Is there away to combine the day values into a single field that can then be outputted to a table ?

Any help or advise will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Alastair

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woodcock
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It is hard to be sure without more detail but perhaps this:

... | stats values(date_wday) AS dayserroroccurredon BY error | nomv dayserroroccurredon

The stats command creates a multivalued field and the nomv command merges all the values into a single whitespaced conglomerated value.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

It is hard to be sure without more detail but perhaps this:

... | stats values(date_wday) AS dayserroroccurredon BY error | nomv dayserroroccurredon

The stats command creates a multivalued field and the nomv command merges all the values into a single whitespaced conglomerated value.

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ahogbin
Communicator

Works a treat.. thank you.

Now just to work out how to get the count of the number of times the error occurred.

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ahogbin
Communicator

Thank you... I ended up adding
stats values(date_wday) AS dayserroroccurredon count(errortype) AS errCount BY errortype but I prefer your way as it is neater and easier to understand.
Cheers and thanks again for your help

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Like this:

... | stats count values(date_wday) AS dayserroroccurredon BY error | nomv dayserroroccurredon
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