How to populate 1 field text to all rows?

[kitkat]

I'm trying to take the text from say row 1 that contains a name and have this text populated as a new field for every row in the file. 

So for example, an input for Row1, field 1 contains a month name.  How would I get this same month generated as a row text for each record?  

[tcroberts · Accepted solution]

You could use a MultiRow Formula Tool configured to create a new field, and to set "Values for Rows that don't Exist" to "Values of closest valid row". Your formula would then just be:

[Row-1:Name]

Since the MultiRow Formula Tool runs row-by-row, as it moves down the dataframe, the previous row will have already been populated with that value, allowing it to continue.

Let me know if this helps or you need clarification,

Cheers!

[kitkat]

thank you! i understood what you were getting at and have it working