Summary

When doing a user or group search to set Permissions on a page, the results are not reflecting the search pattern when the search has a space. Example: A search for "test j" will return the same results as "test" without considering the space or the letter "j".

Problem:
If the site has more than 6 users with the same name but different last name, the searchable user may not be listed at all, and incorrect users will be listed

Environment

• Confluence

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create at least 7 users with the same first name but different last names
2. Search for the 7th user using the Last name initial

Expected Results:

• User is listed because it is matches the search.
• Other users not matching the search pattern are not listed.

Actual Results:
User is not listed at all

the user "Test Jk" exists and should be listed.

The search is triggering the call:

https://site.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/prototype/1/search/user-or-group.json?max-results=6&query=test+j&_=1492998751784

that returns the same results as "query=test" and don't include "Test Jk" because it is limited to 6 results.

Notes

Searching with the first 2 letters of the last name will return the correct results

User mentions on pages and comments are not affected because they use a different rest api call to get search results.

Workaround

Search for more than 2 letters for first and last names.