Wildcard searches of lists

[roy_walton]

This article indicates that you can use wildcards (* for multiple characters, % for single characters) when searching lists, but it doesn't seem to work.

For example, if I want to find all servers in the CMDB where the Name is pi%w001 (so pipw001, pidw001, etc.), I get no results. I've tried using ? instead of % as a single-character wildcard, but no dice. You also can't use the * wildcard anywhere but at the beginning of a string. The only way that wildcards seem to function, for list searches, is when you do a search for (for example) *pipw001, it'll find every server that includes that specific string.

I've tried doing the search in "Go to" boxes, in the filter dropdowns, and in the filter boxes at the top of the table columns, but only the * wildcard works, in the manner I described above.

Has anyone else figured out how to get this to work as it's documented? Is the documentation incorrect, or am I misinterpreting it?

[Allen Andreas]

Hi,

I just did this and it works, is this one of the methods you're referring to?

Well I guess, for that example, to an extent because the bottom entry doesn't have a 1 in the middle. So not fully reliable.

[roy_walton]

Yeah, it sort of works. But in my testing, % doesn't work at all, and it always treats * as one or more characters, not as a single character.