wildcard search

Is there any way to add a wild card search such that an asterisk (*) can be utilized as the first character. This would be useful to find all content created within a range of dates and/or by user, etc. Am I missing a work around for this (other than using SQL Query), or will this be a future feature?

Thanks,
-Paul

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JTNeville

I inquired this very issue with tech support and because of the search engine used currently, sadly no you can't.

I do believe the current search is being replaced in an upcoming version.

I didn't dig any farther once support emailed me back, but it probably can't hurt to go root around Tomcat's site and see if anyone else created a work-around or patch.

dbguy

To execute the searches you mentioned, you do not need a wild card search. Just go to the advanced search page, leave the "Search for:" field empty and set the other fields accordingly.

JTNeville

You will find that the system doesn't allow the kind of searches he is trying. It errors and wants something in the fields. --->There's one exception for a certain file types but otherwise in the common searches it wants a character to base the search on. I have three users who are search happy and they spent a very, very long meeting demonstrating to me all the ways search didn't work as one would expect.

**I use a similar search to the one mentioned below to see all changed files in the system everyday, but the lucene limitation is just that.

Here is a cut and paste of Interwoven's answer, and I have found Ajay to be consistently diligent is getting me the best answer even when it doesn't meet what we would like. Perhaps if a fix is found it will be or has been included in a hf release.

"JT:

You can search like "b*03F18AX11" then it will return the results but you have to put at least one character of the first word. As long as there is one leading character, then you can add the wildcard character. But you can't search only for *
This is a limitation from Lucene. We are searching the Lucene database to see if there is any option to search with the wildcard.

Issue:
Summary: With saved searches, the * character doesn't appear to work. Whenever it is used, regardless of how refined the search is, we get this error:
"Full text condition is too generic for performing search..."

Thanks,
Ajay Yadav
Sr. Support Engineer
Interwoven, Inc."

Edited by JTNeville on 03/09/05 09:23 AM (server time).

dbguy

If all you want is to find documents created by some user within a time range, you do NOT need a wild card search. Just go to the advanced search page and specify the user and/or time range, leave the free text field empty.

See the attached screenshot for an example.