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SaraFennah
Dec 04, 2017MVP
SharePoint Search not finding results - Inconistent Experience with and without *
Searching a SharePoint Online Calendar, for a job number I can find some items without * and some items only with *. This is perplexing as the job number is part of a text field in all records. E.g...
Anonymous
Dec 06, 2017That is really strange indeed as i could think a column has text or number and the difference in that would explain the issue.
mm and it does it random?
SaraFennah
Dec 06, 2017MVP
As far as I can tell it’s completely random. Not one user’s entry, list not at limit. However it seems to always work if we search for string* even though the string isn’t first thing in the field so really should be *string*. The field I am searching always has structure [?] ????? Name
As we now have a way that always works it’s no longer an issue for my client, but i’ll be looking for it elsewhere too, see if I can spot a pattern.
As we now have a way that always works it’s no longer an issue for my client, but i’ll be looking for it elsewhere too, see if I can spot a pattern.