Nancy: kerfuffle with wildcard

I'm excited that Nancy would like to post stuff on this blog. I'll tag these with her name so that all the scribers can easily find her entries.

Kerfuffle with Wildcards by Nancy

When testing 4.0.1 (we are on 7.7.2 in production) I noticed that wildcards used in scribing course numbers were not behaving correctly. I filed a service request with my example. After some discussion of what should be happening, I was told to try changing a new flag in D20 DAP13. The new flag is named "Wildcard Character Match". The flag had been set to "0" as a default, meaning a wildcard matches 0 or more characters. A wildcard has always matched 1 or more characters.

It seems to me that the default for a new flag should be the way the product has always behaved. A user wanting the new functionality should be the one to go in and set it.

After I changed the flag to "1", the audits were OK. So, make sure this flag is set to 1 if a wildcard means 1 or more characters for your scribing.