Scenario
Configuring CQL for users who might not know about wildcard term and only want all relevant results returned
Searching for “guide”, users might expect all results returned to contain all documents / pages with “guide” term. Using $$query$$ to configure CQL, the results returned is as shown.
In actual case however, what users want might be results from “guide*” instead, which would return 2 more files (Multiple filter charts guide, Issue Archiver User guide) as shown.
In this case, page owners should use $$query*$$ when configuring CQL to allow users to retrieve all relevant results.
See Confluence Search Syntax for more information regarding wildcard.
Description
Use an asterisk (*) at the end of your word to replace multiple characters.
Examples
print* finds content containing 'printer', 'printing', 'prints' and so on.
result* finds content containing result, results, resultant, resulting, resultful, resultless and so on.