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abby_xr
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Based on my dataset, I have 10 items in total and I wanna generate a new field randomly for each different item. 

E.g.:

basesearch

| eval new_field=case(
FieldA=item_1,(random() % 4) + 1,
FieldA=item_2,(random() % 4) + 1,
FieldA=item_3, (random() % 4) + 1,
......
FieldA=item_10, (random() % 4) + 1)

but the results of new_field for each item are different. what I want is the newfield_1 is fixed, for example,

"newfield_1=(random() % 4) + 1, if fiedA==item_1: FieldA=newfield_1 (newfield_1 won't change again)"

How can I keep consistent for the different items? Thank you for the help.

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