I was trying to author using an extensive library, and wanted to code my items so that i can narrow the search more easily.

For example, items may have codes M02MM01, M02MM02, M02MM03, M02MM04 etc and I want to find all the M02MM items (and not M02XX items).

If I just search for M02MM it doesn't seem to find anything - it needs to be an exact match.

Can anyone advise what wildcards the library search supports, or if there is another way to achieve what I'm trying to do? 

Hi Richard,

Have you tried enclosing your search in quotes, such as "M02MM* "?  This should work, but on testing it just now, we realised the indexing for the search gadgets seems to be timing out, which may explain your problem. We'll re-index the servers over the weekend, and hopefully that will give you more success. ( If we do it during the week it will impact performance when there are many users online.)

When I first read your reply, I didn't realise you meant to encapsulate my search phrases with quotes "s.

 Yes, this works great. And if I use multiple phrases, eg. "M02*" "PC" - it uses a logical AND to find those items including beginning with M02 AND the word PC.

 I'm a very happy camper - wouldn't have worked this out otherwise - thanks for your help Roger.

Hmm, there is still something unusual going on with the searches. While the quotes do work, there seems to be a limit to using them with wildcards.

This seems to work: "M02" "PC" "03"

But this doesn't: "M02" "PC" "0*"

Can anyone shed any more light in the limits of using quotes to AND, and quotes for wildcard searches? 

There is definitely something strange happening when trying to search the Library when using quotes to achieve a boolean AND.

In my library I have items:

M01 AA S01

M01 AA S02

M01 BB S01

M01 CC S03

If I search for "M01" I get all these items.

If I search for "S01" I get the 1st and 2nd items

If I search for "M01" "AA" I get nothing (should get the first 2 items)

If search for "M01" "CC" I get the fourth item

If I search for "M01" "S03" I get nothing (should get the 4th item)

Just how is this searching supposed to work?