Wildcard search on confluence

Question

Hi there,

we have the following problem:

When using the standard search field and looking for "Unterlagen" confluence will give us 312 results. When searching for "Unterla?en" we get no results. Is this the expected behaviour?

Shouldn´t "Unterlagen" deliver almost the same result as "Unterla?en"? I already rebuilt the search cache - didn´t make anything better.

Confluence Version: 6.0.7

Best regards

Simon

AnnWorley · Answer

Yes, "Unterlagen" and "Unterla?en" should produce the same search results:

Since your index is not working as expected and you already reindexed from scratch it would be worthwhile to open a support ticket to have your logs examined.

unknown · Answer

Hi,

thanks for your reply. I just went through that guide but still "Unterla?en" doesn´t show anything - its not working as supposed, am I right?

Should "Unterlagen" and "Unterla?en" deliver the same results?

Thanks a lot and best regards
Simon

AnnWorley · Answer

Your index is not working as expected with regard to the wildcard search.

When you rebuilt the cache, did you do it "from scratch" - deleting the index directories and restarting Confluence as described in How to rebuild the content indexes from scratch on Confluence server?

Your example doesn't have an umlaut but I wanted to let you know about: Search with wildcard and german umlauts fails