Hi there we have been using sharepoint 2010 for quite some time now and in the early days we decided to name our files like so:
BudgetSpreadsheet.xls
ReferenceLetter.docx
(ie Camel style (for those with a programming background).
The rationale for doing so is that there won't be any "%20" values in the document path.
Sounds great doesn't it! I'm pretty sure i might have even heard from an MVP (Dan Holme perhaps?) that this was a good practice (but maybe he was only talking about list names i can't remember exactly.
Anyways i went to do a search today for a document named something like
RoadRepairsBellamySouth.docx.
I wanted to find all of the documents that had bellamy in their name. Guess what the following search won't find it:
"*Bellamy*"
Thats because sharepoint ootb search doesn't seem to support prefix wildcards. I can find it if I do a search like "RoadRepairsBellamy*", but thats not the kind of search I want (all documents with "bellamy" in their file name)
If I had named my file like this:
Road Repairs Bellamy South.docx, then searching "Bellamy" would have found the file.
So now i'm looking at abandoning my Camel naming convention which is going to be embarassing since i finally got all my users naming files this way (yikes).
Does anyone have any comments / suggestions? Have they run accross this before? Is there anything else i can do to get search working without having to abandon my naming scheme?
krd