topic Single Field Locator with wildcard text in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/single-field-locator-with-wildcard-text/m-p/249660#M14203 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am using a 9.3 Single Field Locator type with a table of point features in a GDB. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The table contains a Name field (text data type). My customer wants to be able to search by Name. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This works, however, the name has to be exact. For example Starbucks rather than Starbuck or Star, to return any results. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have the Spelling Sensitivity cranked way down, as well as candidate and match score but still need to have an exact spelling. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When I do the search interactively and choose 'Show All Candidates' I seem to get more results but I'm not sure how to make that the default when I call the locator from my custom application. I have an ArcEngine 9.3 application so 10.x is not an option.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there a way to specify a wildcard or otherwise search for substrings of the text field??</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Rick</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:55:26 GMT RickPowell 2012-09-07T16:55:26Z Single Field Locator with wildcard text https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/single-field-locator-with-wildcard-text/m-p/249660#M14203 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am using a 9.3 Single Field Locator type with a table of point features in a GDB. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The table contains a Name field (text data type). My customer wants to be able to search by Name. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This works, however, the name has to be exact. For example Starbucks rather than Starbuck or Star, to return any results. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have the Spelling Sensitivity cranked way down, as well as candidate and match score but still need to have an exact spelling. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When I do the search interactively and choose 'Show All Candidates' I seem to get more results but I'm not sure how to make that the default when I call the locator from my custom application. I have an ArcEngine 9.3 application so 10.x is not an option.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there a way to specify a wildcard or otherwise search for substrings of the text field??</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Rick</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:55:26 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/single-field-locator-with-wildcard-text/m-p/249660#M14203 RickPowell 2012-09-07T16:55:26Z