Welcome to the FogBugz Knowledge Exchange

Question

2

I just found out that wildcards (*) act weird when searching for attachments.

I was searching for (cases with mails with) attachments containing some substring, say part. I started searching for attachment:part, but that didn't find anything. Apparently it doesn't look for substrings.
Then I tried attachment:"part*", as I knew the attachments' filenames started with part. That found attachments like part1.txt, but not part one.txt etc.
I was particularly interested in attachments starting with part (part plus a space). So finally I tried attachment:"part *". That did find all attachments I needed.

Now that I know about this quirk, one question remains: if I need to find part1.txt as well as part one.txt, do I really have to search for attachment:"part *" OR attachment:"part*"?!

Maybe I'm missing something...

flag	asked Sep 22 2010 at 8:41 Michel de Ruiter♦ 2,920●1●4●14

	if this is still an issue, please contact us by email. – Rich Armstrong♦ Feb 8 2011 at 20:47
	I don't remember the exact search text (too bad I anonymized it here); I can't reproduce the problem any more. :-( – Michel de Ruiter♦ Feb 8 2011 at 21:07

Rob Sobers · Answer 1 · 2010-09-22 13:24:42Z UTC

1

Which version of FogBugz are you running, Michel? On FogBugz 8, a search for attachment:"part*" yields cases with attachments called part.txt, part1.text, parta.txt, and part one.txt.

Another thing to check is that your search index is complete (Admin -> Site Configuration -> Search).

edited Sep 22 2010 at 13:24

answered Sep 22 2010 at 13:19

Rob Sobers
5,255●5●17

@Rob: we run version 7.3.5. The text indexing is complete. – Michel de Ruiter♦ Sep 22 2010 at 13:23

How to search for attachments?

1 Answer