Asset Navigator - Wildcard search

These features are updated at AIP v7.0.3. Wildcards search with * and ? works for older versions also.

Search has special characters and a reserved word:

* : Multiple character wildcard searches
? : Single character wildcard search
" : Used for partial or exact search
NOT : Capital letter NOT excludes the following term. If you want to search for "Not" use lowercase not.

Search for Wildcard Text Searches

Text fields allow for wildcard searches.

The single character wildcard search looks for terms that match that with the single character replaced. For example, to search for "text" or "test" you can use the search

te?t

Multiple character wildcard searches look for 0 or more characters. For example, to search for test, tests or tester, you can use the search:

tes*

You can also use the wildcard searches in the middle of a term.

te*t

Escaping Special Characters for text search

Lucene supports escaping special characters that are part of the query syntax. The current list special characters are

* ? \

To escape these character use the \ before the character. For example to search for Ab*Cd\xZ use the query: ab\\cd\*xz

Example

We have following assets and their names are

Server alpha test
Alpha server test
App tester beta

When we search:

Search keyword	Result
te*	All assets match	add an asterisk at the end
test*	All assets match
te	Nothing
*est	Server alpha test Alpha sever test	Matches all words end with est. (Leading wildcard is allowed at version 7.0.3)
t*t	Server alpha test Alpha sever test	Matches all words starts with t and ends with t
es	Server alpha test Alpha sever test	Matches all words with es
test	Alpha sever test Server alpha test
server test	Alpha sever test Server alpha test
"server test"	Alpha sever test	Query between double quotes
tester	App tester beta
teste*	App tester beta
tes?	Alpha sever test Server alpha test	Only one character matches for question mark, so "tester" does not return.

if you have an asset with name ab-x1 you can search for ab-*
To search for words starting with " use query: \"*

Antoher example

We have following assets and their names are

New York one
New York two
New York two three
New York Not Here

When we search:

Search keyword	Result
New york	All assets match
"New york one"	New York one	Exact search
"new york" NOT two	New York one New York Not Here	Must include "new york" but not two
"new york" NOT t*	New York one New York Not Here	Must include "new york" but not a have word start with t
not here not	New York Not Here	Lowercase not searches for "not", it is not an exclude operation
* NOT two	New York one New York Not Here	All assets but not includes two

Exact term search

When you surround text search terms with double quotes (i.ie "pandas and monkeys"), only exact matching results will be displayed.

Search keyword

Matching attribute value

"pandas and monkeys"

pandas and monkeys

pandas and MONKEYS

Exactly must be the same. But not case sensitive

pandas and monkeys

pandas

monkeys

pandas monkeys

monkeys pandas

any tokenized word will match

Partial term search

Surround searchs term with double quotes and use it with other search terms: "new york" one matches having "new york" or one

To search only a partial search add a plus (+) sign before the terms with double quotes: +"new york". This search matches all assets with New York but not New Delhi.

Do not to escape special characters if the srach term includes them +"\"new york\"" wil matches "New york" is here