No wildcard in boundary match queries?

Question

In SharePoint 2013, when I try to submit the following FQL query:
QUERYTEXT = managedproperty:STARTS-WITH("n*")
I get this error:
Microsoft.Ceres.SearchCore.Services.Query.QueryServiceId error: Microsoft.Ceres.SearchCore.FastServer.FastServerException: IndexComponent1-f5d8be27-3653-41ea-8f40-f37341a6d9b3-SP8a064cb15f50.I.0.0: WILDCARD not allowed in boundary operation
Is this a known, and expected behavior?  The same query works fine in FS4SP.  And I know, they are completely different products and a "Best of both" approach was taken when merging SPSearch and FAST Search.  But I keep running
into undocumented limitations of search in SP2013 and it's getting annoying and looking more like a "some of both" approach was taken.

Answer 1

Hi tatersnacks,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to create a scope to match all items which have a managed property starting with “n” in SharePoint 2013.
From the MSDN article for SharePoint 2013:
More information:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/office/ff394606(v=office.15).aspx
so, for your issue, please remove the “*” from the query, like: QUERYTEXT = managedproperty:STARTS-WITH("n").
And, the query is also for SharePoint 2010, more information about SharePoint 2010 FAST query START-WITH, please refer to the link:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/office/ff394462(v=office.14).aspx#fqloperator_starts_with
Best Regards,
Wendy
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