Search problem with minus sign (-) in additional system attribute.

[MatthiasBE]

hello,

I encounter following problem:
In livelink an additional system attribute "ident" is defined where the values are formatted like this: AA-123-A112 (last three nmbers are optional

When searching for example *-*-p we get also documents with a ident-value starting with a P (e.g. PP-101-F120)

When placing the search query between "" ("*-*-p*") we get only documents with the result ending on P (eg. OW-120-P but not FR-201-P011)

I tried with reg expressions but that doesn't work either. When using the - sign no results are shown.

It looks like the search index is splitting the value in 3 pieces and is ignoring the - sign.

Can I configure this somewhere that the search will index this value correctly (as complete string), not ignoring the - sign?

Livelink system 9.7.0 is used.

Thanks!

 

[appnair]

You would need to look at the search tokenization guide of OT7 search and see if the the "-" is interpreted as separator or not.If it is not then a proper regexp may help.I suggest you open ticket with OT or re-post this is the search forum of the KB where stalwarts like Raymond Tsui can better answer this qn.

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