You can do this with a transform on the Event Class. Depends a bit on whether the event class is used for events other than the pattern you have described Set the event class transform by navigating to EVENTS -> Event Classes and navigate down to the correct class. You get at the transform from the Action (gear) icon at the bottom of the left-hand menu. Try this:

import re
fk=re.match(r'^some fancy event\s*\d+$', evt.summary)
if fk:
evt.eventKey = 'fancy event'

Make sure you get the white space correct.

Basically the regular expression (re) utility looks for some fancy event followed by zero-or-more whitespace (\s*), followed by one-or-more numbers (\d+). ^ is start-of-string. $ is end-of-string.

If a match is found in the evt.summaryt field then set the eventKey field simply to 'fancy event'.

The trick here is to turn "matching" events into duplicate events. A duplicate is defined as having the device, component, event class, severity and eventKey fields the same. If eventKey is null (and this solution depends on your eventKey field being null at the outset), then the event summary field is also used to detect duplicates. The transform changes the dedupid field from using the summary to using a non-null, identical eventKey.

When a duplicate is detected, the event count increases and the event summary field shows that from the most recent event.

Cheers,

Jane

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thx :)