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How to create fields dynamically

wolfgangs
Engager

Hi,
I have events which contain 3 Fields: "StartDate", "Value_per_month" and "Nr_of_Month". They basically disclose some monthly financial flow which beginns at "StartDate" and ends after "Nr_of_Month".
The goal is to show a sum of "Value_per_month" for each month over all events.

In most cases the dates are in the future, so it will be a bit tricky to get this to work. However, at least a table view would be great and use some basic vizualisation on top. I thought I could create fields for each month, for example "value_yyyy-mm" and assign the value to each and then sum up the values in each field accross all events.
However I have not found a way to do this dynamically in a loop for X times, based on variable "Nr_of_Month".
I have checked combinations of eval, makeresults, foreach, gentimes, etc.

Any basic idea how to approach this would be welcome.
Many thanks in advance

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Can you give some sample events showing the issues you are dealing with?

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wolfgangs
Engager

of course an example might tell more than a page of explanation, sorry for not adding initially 😉
imagine several contracts with monthly payment, one contract per event. First one runs for 6 month, second for 4 month

 StartDateValue of MonthNr_of month
event 15th Dec 20213.56
event 28th Jan 20221.54

 

my thoughts to add fields:

 2021-122022-012022-022022-032022-042022-05
event 13.53.53.53.53.53.5
event 2not existing1.51.51.51.5not existing

 

expected result:
I would like to see the payment to expect each month

Monthsum of Value
2021-123.5
2022-015
2022-025
2022-035
2022-045
2022-053.5

 

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