Hi,

How to enable Wildcard search in sharepoint 2010

Thanks

Jaison A

Wildcard searches are already possible in SharePoint 2010 if you add the asterisk character.

Alternatively you can use something like this solution: http://dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2010/05/13/wildcard-search-web-part-for-sharepoint-2010.aspx to automatically add wildcard characters.

• CA -->Application Management-->Manage Service Applications.
• Click on Search Service Application
• On the left Nav menu, choose and click Federated Locations
• Click the Search you want to change (like Local Search Results)
• Look for and expand Location Information
• In the Query Template section, you will see {searchTerms}
• Just add an asterisk after it {searchTerms}*
• If you want, you can also add an asterisk to the end of the More Results Link Template (results.aspx?k={searchTerms}*) or, use whichever page youre using in its place
• Click the OK button

Hi Jaison,

There is a cmdlet in SharePoint 2010 called New-SPEnterpriseSearchLanguageResourcePhrase, which by looking at the existing LanguageResourcePhrases with Get-SPEnterpriseSearchLanguageResourcePhrase contained a word and an alias for a word, which will allow a Fuzzy Search returning search results based on an alias name. More information, please refer to the link below:

http://mrhodes.net/2011/02/08/enabling-fuzzy-search-for-sharepoint-server-2010/

In addition, there is a CodePlex solution for Wildcard Search web part for SharePoint 2010, please take a look at:

http://wildcardsearch2010.codeplex.com/

I hope this helps.

Thanks,

Wendy