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Confluence Search: Wildcards at the beginning of a word do not work

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      Currently the search does not support for leading wildcards.
      Our customer would like to search a query like "?0DUMMYXY" or "*DUMMYXY" to list pages relating to terms like 10DUMMYXY, 20DUMMYXY" etc.

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            [AI-538] Confluence Search: Wildcards at the beginning of a word do not work

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            Owen Wallis added a comment -

            4ca65f6a4bda the latency would vary depending on the size of the index and the amount of customer data.

            I ran some analysis and only 0.08% of queries are using wildcards, so the risk of increasing latency for all customers was not something the team wanted.

            Happy to chat more about your specific circumstance and learn why you don't have the ability to search for words that end on a specific text: https://calendly.com/owallis

            Owen Wallis added a comment - 4ca65f6a4bda the latency would vary depending on the size of the index and the amount of customer data. I ran some analysis and only 0.08% of queries are using wildcards, so the risk of increasing latency for all customers was not something the team wanted. Happy to chat more about your specific circumstance and learn why you don't have the ability to search for words that end on a specific text: https://calendly.com/owallis

            C. Dicker added a comment -

            owallis@atlassian.com Did you test the exact impact on search latency?
            We don't have the ability to search for words that end on a specific text, as far as I know.
            So being able to search with latency is still better than no possibility at all.

            C. Dicker added a comment - owallis@atlassian.com Did you test the exact impact on search latency? We don't have the ability to search for words that end on a specific text, as far as I know. So being able to search with latency is still better than no possibility at all.
            Owen Wallis made changes -
            Assignee New: Owen Wallis [ owallis@atlassian.com ]
            Owen Wallis made changes -
            Status Original: Gathering Interest [ 11772 ] New: Not Being Considered [ 11776 ]

            Owen Wallis added a comment -

            We don’t enable leading wildcards due to high latency. This is as per recommendation from OpenSearch: Wildcard

            Thus sadly we won't be fixing this ticket

            Owen Wallis added a comment - We don’t enable leading wildcards due to high latency. This is as per recommendation from OpenSearch: Wildcard Thus sadly we won't be fixing this ticket

            Müller Miroslav added a comment - - edited

            Confluence search syntax page mentions leading wildcards in search are not supported. There was, however, a workaround as described on a very similar page here Confluence Search Syntax
            and that is by using the following pattern /.text./ to search for words including "pretext", "textpost", as also mentioned here Solved: search exact word . 

            This workaround stopped working since migration to confluence Cloud, as mentioned here Confluence Search: Why does the workaround with RegEx for leading wildcards not work? . 

            Müller Miroslav added a comment - - edited Confluence search syntax page mentions leading wildcards in search are not supported. There was, however, a workaround as described on a very similar page here Confluence Search Syntax and that is by using the following pattern /. text. / to search for words including "pretext", "textpost", as also mentioned here Solved: search exact word .  This workaround stopped working since migration to confluence Cloud, as mentioned here Confluence Search: Why does the workaround with RegEx for leading wildcards not work? . 
            pqz made changes -
            Component/s Original: Search - Core [ 46383 ]
            Component/s New: Search - Core [ 75296 ]
            Key Original: CONFCLOUD-37153 New: AI-538
            Support reference count Original: 5
            Affects Version/s Original: 5.9.5 [ 67959 ]
            Affects Version/s Original: 5.7.1 [ 67767 ]
            Affects Version/s Original: 5.6.1 [ 67747 ]
            Affects Version/s Original: 5.5.6 [ 67736 ]
            Affects Version/s Original: 5.5.3 [ 67730 ]
            Affects Version/s Original: 5.5.2 [ 67729 ]
            Affects Version/s Original: 5.5 [ 67726 ]
            Affects Version/s Original: 5.4.4 [ 67715 ]
            Affects Version/s Original: 5.4.3 [ 67714 ]
            Affects Version/s Original: 5.4.2 [ 67713 ]
            Affects Version/s Original: 5.3.4 [ 67709 ]
            Affects Version/s Original: 5.1.3 [ 67675 ]
            Project Original: Confluence Cloud [ 18513 ] New: Atlassian Intelligence [ 23110 ]

            C. Dicker added a comment -

            Is this the only ticket relating to the mentioned problem?
            Last comment in 2017 seems quite old...

            In my opinion, this is a key feature for user acceptance which is missing.
            So not a request for a new feature, but a bug which damages the user experience.

            At least, clearly mention this issue in the documentation:
            https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/confluence-search-syntax/

            C. Dicker added a comment - Is this the only ticket relating to the mentioned problem? Last comment in 2017 seems quite old... In my opinion, this is a key feature for user acceptance which is missing. So not a request for a new feature, but a bug which damages the user experience. At least, clearly mention this issue in the documentation: https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/confluence-search-syntax/
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              owallis@atlassian.com Owen Wallis
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