SmartSearch with search term using starts with

You are looking for wild card functionality. Yes you can, it is built in lucene I.e smart search. So if you search for test* it should bring you testing. If it doesn't work than your tokenizer type is not the right one. You will need to experiment here.

Hi Peter,

Do you mean the field should be tokenized? Sorry, I'm not yet familiar with other terms

Sorry I meant anylizer type. I tried with standard analyzer on my default index - it seems working. Go to your index, click on preview tab and try there. it even works here: if you type in the search box on top of this site - test* you will that it is working :)

As Peter mentioned, you can use Lucene syntax out-of-the-box to search using a "starts with" functionality. This works best if you are performing a field-specific search or if your visitors know to add the "*" to the search.

You could also change the analyzer to "Starts with": https://docs.kentico.com/k11/configuring-kentico/setting-up-search-on-your-website/using-locally-stored-search-indexes/configuring-search-assistance-features-for-local-indexes#Configuringsearchassistancefeaturesforlocalindexes-Substringsearch. This will tokenize all fields marked Tokenize into substrings allowing for a "starts with" functionality for all fields without the use of the "*" character.