This topic only applies when performing keyword searches with Windchill Index Search installed and enabled.

Windchill Index Search ignores the following characters:

When a special character is ignored during indexing, Windchill Index Search replaces the character with white space. For example, you create two parts and assign 123/456/789 and 123*456*789 as their number identifiers. Both values are indexed as 123, 456, and 789.

When you include any of these characters in your keyword search term, Windchill ignores the special character and treats the keyword as two separate strings joined by the AND operator.

For example, if you perform a keyword search for 123/456/789, then you are actually performing a search for 123, 456, and 789. This search would return objects with any of the following values: