Question

Sometimes, putting the whole name into the search is not convenient because it's too long. Or sometimes, the whole name of one project is a substring of several others, (e.g., searching for area:"spam" returns cases in both the Spam and Not Spam area because they both contain the substring "Spam"). How do I search on an axis, e.g. Project: for an exact match? When I search for Project:"foo" I get results for a project called "foobar". Or less abstractly, Milestone:"Widget 1.0" returns cases with the milestone "Widget 1.0.5"

Case FC1228177

Answer 1

It is not possible to tell FogBugz you want an exact match when you search on an axis like this. We have a case open for potential change to this behavior. All axes except tag: use substring matching. tag: finds exact matches. If you need a partial matched tag name, use an asterisk (*) wildcard.

A workaround is to use the little-known index syntax. You can search for the index of a field (project, area, etc) by using := after the axis name instead of : For example, Project:=54 instead of Project:"foo" if foo's ixProject is 54.

Find the ID of a project by hovering over the edit icon for it in Admin -> Projects and looking for "ixProject=" in the URL. You can do the same for a user ("ixPerson=" in the edit link in Admin -> Users) and other entities.

See the full search documentation for more details.