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How to format field values of a varying field name?

auaave
Communicator

Hey Guys,

I have events with duration (seconds), then I chart the sum of duration per week. So now, the field names are the week numbers and the values are the duration. Formatting to[h%:m%:s%] converts my duration to string that is why I can't format the duration before charting.

How can I format the duration now to [h%:m%:s%] when my field names (week number) are changing every week?

| bin _time span=1w | convert timeformat=("%V") ctime(_time) 
| chart sum(DURATION) as duration over DESCRIPTION by _time useother=f 
| addtotals 
| sort Total desc limit=10

Thank you!

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mayurr98
Super Champion

hey you can try something like this

| bin _time span=1w 
| convert timeformat=("%V") ctime(_time) 
| chart sum(DURATION) as duration over DESCRIPTION by _time useother=f 
| addtotals 
| sort Total desc limit=10 
| foreach * 
    [ eval <<FIELD>>=if("<<FIELD>>" == "DESCRIPTION",DESCRIPTION,tostring('<<FIELD>>',"duration")) ]

let me know if this helps!

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