Search behaviour is not as described

Das Hufnagl

Dear community,

I'm a bit surprised that the search isn't working as expected. After studying these 2 pages of documentation...

• https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/confluence-search-syntax/
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/search-139528.html

....I thought the matter was clear:

When I search for occurrences of the term "Paypal", I will type pay and I already get hits.

But that's not the case. I have to specify the exact term paypal. Of course I can alternatively enter pay*, then I get the results. But the documentation says that search hits are displayed as soon as you enter a term. That means it shouldn't matter whether I enter pay or paypa. But instead there are no hits.

More: Also entering *aypal* brings no result.

So either I didn't understand something fundamentally, or the thing just doesn't work as described.

Thanks for you help! Andreas

Fabio Racobaldo _Catworkx_

Hi @Das Hufnagl and welcome,

I just tried on my confluence instance and it works as per documentation. If you write a portion of text confluence will search all pages (title or content), attachments or space that contains that text.

Fabio