Enable Partial Search for Metadata Containing Dot and Hyphen in AEM Assets SearchInvestigating
Request for Feature Enhancement (RFE) Summary:
Enhance the AEM Assets Search to support partial and full-text search functionality for metadata properties containing special characters, such as dot (.) and hyphen (-), as part of their values.
Use-case:
The customer has integrated a custom property (jcr:content/metadata/dc:suffix) into the filter search form and enabled partial search for this property. This property stores metadata values, such as product SKUs, which frequently include dots (.) and hyphens (-) as part of their structure (e.g., OLED48B46LA.AEUQLHX or OLED48B46-LA-AEUQLHX).
However, the current search functionality treats these special characters as delimiters, breaking the search query into tokens and failing to retrieve relevant assets.
For example, search for OLED48B46-LA.AEU* is not working where property value is OLED48B46-LA.AEUQLHX. This issue significantly impacts the customer’s ability to locate assets efficiently, disrupting workflows that depend on
