ES - is this a bug?

[Jja]

I have an issue, which can be replicated here as well.

Will take existing topic from here to show what I mean, for example: Migration from Invision 4.7.22 Cloud, not self-hosted
In some cases i would like to search all versions for 4.7, when i type in the search 4.7 it shows in suggestions:


But when you list all results, existing topic is not visible which was in suggestions:


Why suggestion results are better in given case but full results are not ?
Seems like adding 4.7* at the end solves it, but majority of userbase don't know about it and they leaves without given results.

 

[Jja]

 

[ES Dev Team]

What version are you running?

I'm in 2.2.x and the search is inconsistent everywhere.

 

[MySiteGuy]

It's supposed to work that way. The suggestions are "as you type" results, so they use a wildcard search, whereas the final result will not have the * unless the user specifies in their search. With words, that's not an issue, because there's word stemming. If you want to match 4.7 that is not only 4.7, but includes 4.7., 4.7.2, 4.70, etc. then use 4.7*

 

[Jja]

then use 4.7*

Yes, but cant explain that to every user and they end up without search results (I even logged what users are searching).

 

[MySiteGuy]

If Xenforo didn't use the wildcard, it would make quick results pretty much non-functional because it would have to wait for a space before searching, or a long pause to indicate it is only going to be a one word search.