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Ordering an alpha numerical column and highlighting

shakSplunk
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Hi all,

I have the following dataset:

Name TitleDaysRemaining
TomWest50
Martinerrorerror
Billy Winter5103
WillFable2

 

I was wondering if there is a way to order the DaysRemaining field by first showing the 'error' value on the top and then ordering in ascending order - i.e. 2,50 and 5103?

In addition, is there a way to only highlight the DaysRemaining field, in which 'error' is highlighted red, values between 0-30 are also red, values between 30 - 100 are orange and values above 100 are green?

Desired outcome:

e.g..PNG

 

Appreciate any and all help greatly!

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bowesmana
SplunkTrust
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By default, sort will put alpha after numbers, so you will have to create a new field to sort on, which is dependent on the value of DaysRemaining. Use this code

| eval sort=if(DaysRemaining>0, DaysRemaining, -999)
| sort sort DaysRemaining
| fields - sort

 the sort field will be -999 if the DaysRemaining is alpha, so the sort will then sort on that field, which you can then remove.

As for colours, you can set colours for the numeric values, but to get the text field coloured also, I suspect you'll have to use CSS

 

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