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Fill field with first value

cxs6345
Engager

I have a data set for web traffic.  A sessionID ties all traffic for an individual browsing session together - all events from the time you open a new tab until you close it.  There is also a memberID field.  Some records do NOT have a value populated for memberID, so I want to return each record for the sessionID with the FIRST non-null value found in the sessionID.  For instance

timesessionIDmemberIDevalField
12:011<NULL>abc
12:021<NULL>abc
12:031abcabc
12:041<NULL>abc


Can someone help me out with how to get this evalField column?  Thanks so much!

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

That's job for eventstats.

<your search>
| eventstats first(memberID) as memberID by sessionID

 

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

That's job for eventstats.

<your search>
| eventstats first(memberID) as memberID by sessionID

 

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