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Status Under Consideration
Categories 01. General/Multiple Areas
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 20, 2018

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Search - Enable Wildcards as first character in a query (e.g. *nections, ?onnections)

Users tend to search with a wild card as first character. Unfortunately this leads afaik into no results with the current search setup / engines. As a work around a search like "a*[remaining search term] OR b*[remaining search term] [...] OR z*[remaining search term]" - maybe there are better ways ;-) - can at least close this gap, but are not practical for a user.
For sure these kind of searches are a performance pain for the underling search engine/server. Still this is a user demand. Please help to get this implemented into both on-prem and cloud for search.

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    Adam Gartenberg
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    |     Oct 27, 2021

    We agree this would make for a better user experience. While this seems like it should be a simple update, it would actually require a major update to our underlying search technology, which we do not have in the roadmap at this point.

  • Guest
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    |     Oct 27, 2021

    Almost 3 years have passed - Any Update on this?

    Our users constantly complain about not being able to search with wildcards as first character.

  • Guest
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    |     Sep 3, 2019

    I think using wildcards also as first characters of a search string correspond to the current state of technology.

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