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SharePoint Search does not work
Are you using the Title field as well? A lot of times that field sits empty in doc libraries, you could try putting data in that field as well and see if the results are better against title than file name.
I hope that helps!
Thank you for your answer, but the length of the file isn't the problem. And, also, yes, I am using the Title column and it has same text.
Here is another (simple) example:
I have 4 documents in my test doc lib with metadata column called "aaa":
So, if I search fro term "77", I get nothing.
If I search "77*", I get only 1 file.
I can't get file with metadata "p77940", unless I start with "p77*"
Another example:
If I write "52" as a search term - I get NOTHING.
If I write "52*" as a search term - I get NOTHING.
But, when I write "852*" - i get the file.
So, this means that SP search uses "startsWith" function for searching??
How can I search the middle of the word??
MarioZagreb I am having the exact same issues. Search is not returning the correct results. Anyone else have ideas on how to solve?
- I found this:
*: The asterisk symbol, known as the search wildcard, broadens your search by returning results that include variations on the given term. Searching edu* returns results that include educate, educational, education, and any other words that begin with edu-.
Wildcards can only be used at the end of a word. You cannot begin a word with a wildcard. For example, you can’t search *smith in hopes of getting results that include blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, locksmith, and the like. But you can search smith* to get results that include Smith, Smithson, Smithsonian, and anything else that starts with Smith (likely a lot of people names).
Wildcards can only be used at the end of an exact phrase search.
Is this really true???
