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  1. Atlassian Intelligence
  2. AI-568

Support substring (partial) searches for terms used in Confluence: page title, attachment names, etc.

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      Implement a real substring search. It is not possible to place "*substring" search.
      This is very annoying not to be able to find topics only because the searched term is started with a prefix (e.g. There is no chance to find a topic about WinCVS jsut by searching for "CVS" or "*CVS".

      If it is not possible by default, why it cannot be enabled by some macro or optional plugin?

      (Related terms to help with visibility: prefixed search, suffixed search, starts with)

            [AI-568] Support substring (partial) searches for terms used in Confluence: page title, attachment names, etc.

            Owen Wallis made changes -
            Resolution New: Fixed [ 1 ]
            Status Original: Gathering Interest [ 11772 ] New: Closed [ 6 ]

            Owen Wallis added a comment -

            Hi all, as a result of the improvements we've made to Confluence search over the past year (including semantic search) we've tested and believe this ticket is now fixed

            Owen Wallis added a comment - Hi all, as a result of the improvements we've made to Confluence search over the past year (including semantic search) we've tested and believe this ticket is now fixed
            Owen Wallis made changes -
            Assignee New: Owen Wallis [ owallis@atlassian.com ]
            Alex W (Inactive) made changes -
            Labels Original: affects-cloud affects-server cc-findability search wildcard New: affects-cloud affects-server cc-findability search solved-by-ai-rovo wildcard
            pqz made changes -
            Component/s Original: Search - Core [ 46383 ]
            Component/s New: Search - Core [ 75296 ]
            Key Original: CONFCLOUD-10412 New: AI-568
            Support reference count Original: 10
            Project Original: Confluence Cloud [ 18513 ] New: Atlassian Intelligence [ 23110 ]

            Jonathan Minville added a comment -

            Having the possibility to search partial strings and have accurate results is absolutely essential in a documentation tool. Our company is currently migrating a large documentation base in Confluence and our teams are deeply concerned with the loss of search capability. For example, it should be possible to do a search for 'inventory' and have the page containing the term 'warehouse.inventory' appear in the search results. Currently there is no way of doing that, which is basically crippling our capacity to search technical terms over a large number of pages. Please address this issue as this could (and should) make customers reconsider using Confluence as a reliable document management solution.

            Jonathan Minville added a comment - Having the possibility to search partial strings and have accurate results is absolutely essential in a documentation tool. Our company is currently migrating a large documentation base in Confluence and our teams are deeply concerned with the loss of search capability. For example, it should be possible to do a search for 'inventory' and have the page containing the term 'warehouse.inventory' appear in the search results. Currently there is no way of doing that, which is basically crippling our capacity to search technical terms over a large number of pages. Please address this issue as this could (and should) make customers reconsider using Confluence as a reliable document management solution.
            Owen Wallis made changes -
            Remote Link New: This issue links to "Page (Confluence)" [ 804798 ]

            Kim Miesse added a comment -

            Correcting this would help user avoid being misinformed by search results that are not correct.

            Kim Miesse added a comment - Correcting this would help user avoid being misinformed by search results that are not correct.
            Aniket Bhosale made changes -
            Remote Link New: This issue links to "Page (Confluence)" [ 632655 ]
            Andrew Dildy (Inactive) made changes -
            Remote Link New: This issue links to "Page (Confluence)" [ 507958 ]

              owallis@atlassian.com Owen Wallis
              30c2f0f7e73b Petr Kohutek
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