0001878: Search capability needs more flexibility.

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0001878	mantisbt	bugtracker	public	2002-04-23 08:59	2008-07-24 16:50

Reporter	~~rep~~	Assigned To	vboctor
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	duplicate
Product Version	0.17.1

Summary	0001878: Search capability needs more flexibility.
Description	The current search method searches on phrases in the description and summary fields. This is typically not what I try to do. Usually I think of the search box just like I do any other search box (e.g. google). I expect a search on velocity speed overshoot to hit on the OR of these terms, not the phrase. Also searching bug notes would be useful. (Indexing may be required to accompish this in a reasonable search time).
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dan_vatca 2004-04-09 06:18 reporter ~0005358	More flexibility may be achieved by considering the search box a perl regular expression, so you can enter something like "velocity\|speed\|overshoot" to OR the terms. ... and it is fairly simple to implement, too.

vboctor 2004-04-09 18:15 manager ~0005361	Do search engines usually use the OR or the AND? I thought the AND. I think using regular expressions in the search box can provided flexibility but can be confusing to the user.

morganparry 2004-04-14 11:00 reporter ~0005382	Most applications and sites I've used just have a separate "advanced search" page.

TomR 2004-12-23 07:58 reporter ~0008781	I would like to have the ability to use regular expressions in the search box. Is this planned in the near future. Wat are other posibilities for easy searching on more than 1 word in Mantis?