fulltext in query doesn't work for partial search term

[salamswapnil]

Hello 

We are not getting results for partial keywords search by query.

e.g.

It doesn't return results for below query

type=cq:Page
path=/content/mysite/us/en/resources
fulltext=Ind

But it gives results for below one.

type=cq:Page
path=/content/mysite/us/en/resources
fulltext=India

Is this an expected behavior or am I missing anything here?

Thanks

Swapnil

[Rajalakshmi]

Hi @salamswapnil, full-text field searches for the whole word that matches the search key anywhere in webpages.

If your search key is "Ind" then it searches for Ind everywhere on pages

FYR => tothenew.com/blog/full-text-search-in-aem-using-query-builder/

[kautuk_sahni]

@Rajalakshmi, Thank you for participating in the AEM community. Good to have AEM SME's like you. Looking forward to see you more into the community. Keep it up.

[Rajalakshmi]

@kautuk_sahni, Thanks for your inspiring insights, this would keep me more evolve, engaged and contribute a lot more to the community.

[Asutosh_Jena_]

Hi @salamswapnil 

The term "full-text" itself contains the answer. Whenever we use a full-text search as the predicate, AEM will internally try to look for any occurances where it can find the exact search text as a whole word.

It's exactly works in the same way as SQL2 below:
SELECT * FROM [nt:unstructured] WHERE ISDESCENDANTNODE('/jcr:root/content/mysite/us/en/resources') AND LOWER([prop]) LIKE "%Ind%" ORDER BY [cq:lastModified] desc

As you mentioned you are correct and it will always return the full text result if found any.

Hope this helps!
Thanks!

[bilal_ahmad]

Hey @salamswapnil

The results you are getting are just right, as you're making use of fulltext search. You can create synonyms(a text file) and then based on your search text(like Ind = you'd expect to fetch it the result for India). Nicely explained by @Albin_Issac on his blog: https://medium.com/tech-learnings/how-to-enable-search-synonyms-in-aem-with-lucene-ccb780375eb4 

Hope this would help!

Thanks,

Bilal.

[salamswapnil · Accepted solution]

Thank you everyone for your responses. We are able to achieve expected behavior (partial keyword search) by appending '*' in the fulltext term.

e.g. Below query gives all the results having text "Ind[xxxxx]". This is similar to wildcard character search in lucene.

type=cq:Page
path=/content/mysite/us/en/resources
fulltext=Ind*

PS : It comes with slight performance overhead.