If a wiki page has the word adrecordset, a search on recordset should include the page. Currently only a search on adrecordset or a search with wildcards returns the page.
Wait..this seems unreasonable?
Isn't this how it works with elasticsearch or solr? or even google for that matter..a search for green won't return evergreen..
I wouldn't pay to fix it, Confluence isn't free. There are a lot of Open Source alternatives that provide such features out of the box. It's the only feature that shouldn't be broken.
I really hate Confluence nowadays (and I really liked in the past, when I was using it randomly):
- Counter productive syntax that is not even equal to the one of Jira
- Search functionality that cannot find anything (I spend HOURS trying to find my content, let alone somebody else's). Some days I just wish I had the DB at hand / a folder with the whole pages exported to grep it myself.
- Proprietary file format - good luck migrating away from it
I'm really sad to say these things, I like Atlassian as a company but the more I use Atlassian products, the more I realize they're bloated and have _broken_ features that were implemented quickly just to tick some more boxes on their features sheet.
Not around text field searches.
Something as simple as searching for exact fragment with punctuation (think function header) often does not work at all.