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Advanced Search does not highlight all "OR" search terms

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Hi forum and Tracker support team,

today I found the below problem with Advanced Search.
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Steps to reproduce: download the attached file and use Advanced Search (with proximity set to "same paragraph") for the following search term combination:
  • (processor AND voltage) AND (battery OR forcibly OR cell OR individually)
Result: on p. 3, only the words "processor", "voltage" and "battery" are highlighted, but not the words "forcibly", "cell" and "individually", although the latter terms also are there in the same text paragraph.

Expected result: all search terms that are present in the respective found paragraph should be highlighted.

Note that the same happens also if less search terms connected with "OR" are used, for example like the following search term combination:
  • (processor AND voltage) AND (battery OR cell)
Thus, it seems that generally, only one of the alternative terms (that are connected with "OR") gets highlighted, instead of all of the alternative terms, see also below screenshot from another search:
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Please try to reproduce and create a support ticket, if applicable.

Thank you
David.P
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Re: Advanced Search does not highlight all "OR" search terms

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Hi David,

Thank you for the detailed post! However, I am actually seeing the expected results when using the basic search:

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I am able to reproduce the missing results when using the same search criteria as shown in your screenshot.

It seems that removing the criteria from the "All these words" field allows the results from "Any of these words" to populate.

I agree with you that the search should be showing the results from the "Any of these words" as well as the "All of these words" search terms, only if they all are within the same paragraph.

I have created an internal development ticket to help track the status of this issue. Please reference RT#3840: Issue with advanced search criterion when requesting an update to this issue.

Thank you again for your detailed report.

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Re: Advanced Search does not highlight all "OR" search terms

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Thank you very much Patrick, for creating the support ticket. Sorry for replying late. Somehow I wasn't notified by the forum, or I missed the notification.

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Re: Advanced Search does not highlight all "OR" search terms

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