topic Searching for users, groups, or items by partial suffix in ArcGIS REST APIs and Services Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/searching-for-users-groups-or-items-by-partial/m-p/140356#M653 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This is in reference to the <A href="https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/users-groups-and-items/search-reference.htm">REST API's Users, Groups, and Items Search Reference</A>.</P><P></P><P>I am trying to find an item in ArcGIS Online using the search functionality provided by the REST API using the suffix (end) part of a particular string. Say I was looking for a tag that ends in '<STRONG>captain</STRONG>'. Looking through the API, I see there are wildcard characters for single characters (?) or multiple characters (*). So, I'm thinking I can try something like:&nbsp;</P><P></P><P style="text-align: center;"><CODE>q: {tag:captain OR tag:*captain}</CODE></P><P></P><P>and I should get back tags like "row<STRONG>captain</STRONG>" or "space<STRONG>captain</STRONG>".</P><P></P><P>Instead, I get&nbsp; "Oh <STRONG>captain</STRONG> my <STRONG>captain</STRONG>" and "<STRONG>captain</STRONG> obvious", but no words where "<STRONG>captain</STRONG>" is a suffix.</P><P>Any advice on how to get the results I'm looking for?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 21 May 2018 21:17:59 GMT KenDoman 2018-05-21T21:17:59Z Searching for users, groups, or items by partial suffix https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/searching-for-users-groups-or-items-by-partial/m-p/140356#M653 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This is in reference to the <A href="https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/users-groups-and-items/search-reference.htm">REST API's Users, Groups, and Items Search Reference</A>.</P><P></P><P>I am trying to find an item in ArcGIS Online using the search functionality provided by the REST API using the suffix (end) part of a particular string. Say I was looking for a tag that ends in '<STRONG>captain</STRONG>'. Looking through the API, I see there are wildcard characters for single characters (?) or multiple characters (*). So, I'm thinking I can try something like:&nbsp;</P><P></P><P style="text-align: center;"><CODE>q: {tag:captain OR tag:*captain}</CODE></P><P></P><P>and I should get back tags like "row<STRONG>captain</STRONG>" or "space<STRONG>captain</STRONG>".</P><P></P><P>Instead, I get&nbsp; "Oh <STRONG>captain</STRONG> my <STRONG>captain</STRONG>" and "<STRONG>captain</STRONG> obvious", but no words where "<STRONG>captain</STRONG>" is a suffix.</P><P>Any advice on how to get the results I'm looking for?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 21 May 2018 21:17:59 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/searching-for-users-groups-or-items-by-partial/m-p/140356#M653 KenDoman 2018-05-21T21:17:59Z