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Transaction with two fields have that have the same value

hartfoml
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in my logs the "connectionid" on one _raw log and the fcid

I tried this

sourcetype=foo | rename connectionid AS transactionid fcid AS transactionid | transaction transactionid

and it seems to work but there has to be a better way.

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somesoni2
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sourcetype=foo | eval transactionid=coalesce(connectionid , fcid)| transaction transactionid

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hartfoml
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Somesoni,

Thanks for the suggestion. Can you put this in as an answer so I can give you credit

somesoni2
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sourcetype=foo | eval transactionid=coalesce(connectionid , fcid)| transaction transactionid

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