A wildcard is a character that may be used in a search term to represent one or more other characters. The wildcard character used in Fluid Topics is the asterisk ("*").
When using wildcard search, results are optimal in the following situations:
- The keyword is relatively short when fully expanded.
- For longer keywords, many characters precede the wildcard character.
- Fluid Topics only triggers wildcard search when an asterisk is present at the end (as the last character) of a keyword. Fluid Topics interprets an asterisk that is at the beginning or in the middle of a word as a whitespace character and does not trigger wildcard search in this case.
- Wildcard search does not return synonyms. For example, the query foo does not return soccer even if an administrator has defined football and soccer as synonyms.
- It is recommended to not use wildcard search with AFS Taruqa.
Example
Searching for foo* returns results for fool, food, football, football stadium, etc.
Enable wildcard search
To enable wildcard search, contact a Fluid Topics representative via the Fluid Topics Help Desk.