I have multiple emails in my inbox that have words that begin with “aa” and I’m trying to determine how to use an advanced search of the inbox to find them. For this example, I am looking just for one email with the word “aaxxx00” in it. Here are the results:
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“aa” in the advanced search. Only email with the word “AA-BB” are returned. Not correct.
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“aaxx” in the advanced search. No emails are returned.
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“aaxxx” in the advanced search. The correct emails are returned.
Shouldn’t have searching on “aa” also returned the same emails that “aaxxx” returned?
I want to know how I can get all emails that have any word that begins with “aa” returned. The inbox is server based and indexed. I have ‘use word variants’ or ‘fuzzy search’ checked and tried various wildcard characters.
Thank you for any assistance.
Subject: Searching using operators
Consider reviewing the Notes Help article:“Refining a search query using operators”
The search term “aa” is not really a wild card in a Notes search. The term “aa*”, “*” for any alphabetic character after “aa” is considered a wild card. But note it would only return any word that starts with “aa” so it would not return a result for “baab”. If you searched for “aa” then you would get a result of “baab”.
In your first example “AA-BB” is return because it is not case sensitive and it sees the return as two words.
In your second example you searched specifically for “aaxx” not “aaxxx” which Notes does not know that “aaxxx” is a variant of the search term. If you search for “aaxx*” then it should find that result.
For your third example you find “aaxxx00” (assuming zeros). In the help file it states:
“A wildcard that can represent any extension of letters. It does not work with dates or numbers.” The would be interpreted as that numbers are not words so your word stopped at the last “x”.
Subject: Thanks
Thanks Rene. I think my search is failing since I am looking for words that have numbers in them.