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Session search should permit searches for phrases

The current session search interface breaks phrases into words and searches for each word (DTSearch). The only search options are "Includes" or" Excludes".

For example, if you search for an exact host name "INTERNAL", sessions will be returned with host names like: "MyAppName.internal.MyCo.com"

To illustrate the problem, a search for abc.xyz.com will return sessions from xyz.abc.com... because the search engine does not support phrases and breaks the search in to words.

Searching would be improved if there was an "Equals" operator... for example, to search for an exact phrase with the exact order of words... "The brown dog jumps over the fence" is not equal to "The brown fence jumps over the dog".

Such a option might require an additional pass through session data, after the basic work search completes.

  • Eric Stamper
  • Sep 1 2021
How will this idea be used?

Session search is limited when exact phrases can not be search for.

What is your industry? Healthcare
What is the idea priority? Medium