Answers.Body: <p>I originally wrote it that way to avoid confusion. If you want to pull up contact id <code>20</code> you'll be overwhelmed with irrelevant results (201, 202, 203, 120, 220, 320, and so on). You'll get so many results that the one you actually wanted might not even be in the list!</p>
  
  <p>That said, if someone had time and/or money for the project, I'm sure there could be something smart added to the query that made the exact match show up first in the list followed by partial matches.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Tested on dmaster. </p>
  
  <p>Give Contact external ID eg fz123456</p>
  
  <p>then set QuickSearch for External ID and enter</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>fz123 - no result</p></li>
  <li><p>fz1234 - no result</p></li>
  <li><p>fz12345 - no result</p></li>
  <li><p>fz123456 - yay</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Ah, see this applies to Internal ID too, namely</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>2 - Muller</p></li>
  <li><p>20 - ah.olsen@</p></li>
  <li><p>202 - demo@</p></li>
  <li><p>2% - Muller</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Can you reset QuickSearch so these match with wildcards?</p>
  
Tags: <quicksearch><external-id>
Title: Can Quick Search be set up so External ID does not have to be exact match to work?
ThreadText: # Can Quick Search be set up so External ID does not have to be exact match to work?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-03-16)
  
  Tested on dmaster.
  
  Give Contact external ID eg fz123456
  
  then set QuickSearch for External ID and enter
  
  * fz123 - no result
  * fz1234 - no result
  * fz12345 - no result
  * fz123456 - yay
  
  Ah, see this applies to Internal ID too, namely
  
  * 2 - Muller
  * 20 - ah.olsen@
  * 202 - demo@
  * 2% - Muller
  
  Can you reset QuickSearch so these match with wildcards?
  
  **Tags:** quicksearch, external-id
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-03-17. Score: 1
  
  I originally wrote it that way to avoid confusion. If you want to pull up contact id `20` you'll be overwhelmed with irrelevant results (201, 202, 203, 120, 220, 320, and so on). You'll get so many results that the one you actually wanted might not even be in the list!
  
  That said, if someone had time and/or money for the project, I'm sure there could be something smart added to the query that made the exact match show up first in the list followed by partial matches.
  
  
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