Given Patrons with the following names: SURNAME , FIRSTNAME ST CLAIRE , JAKE ST. AUBIN , SHELLEY P ST. CLAIRE , AUSTIN B ST. CLAIRE , BRADLEY ST. CLAIRE , CHYENNA M ST. CLAIRE , CODY R. ST. CLAIRE , HENRY ST. CLAIRE , SKYANN M. ST. JOHN , CHRISTA ST. JOHN , EMERSON D STEINBERG , CLAIRE The patron search and checkout search behave differently: Searching for st. claire Patron search returns ST. CLAIRE , AUSTIN B ST. CLAIRE , BRADLEY ST. CLAIRE , CHYENNA M ST. CLAIRE , CODY R. ST. CLAIRE , HENRY ST. CLAIRE , SKYANN M. check-out search returns nothing. --- Searching for st claire Patron search returns results for both ST CLAIRE and ST. CLAIRE: ST CLAIRE , JAKE ST. CLAIRE , AUSTIN B ST. CLAIRE , BRADLEY ST. CLAIRE , CHYENNA M ST. CLAIRE , CODY R. ST. CLAIRE , HENRY ST. CLAIRE , SKYANN M. check-out search returns STEINBERG , CLAIRE --- Searching for st. Both searches return ST. AUBIN , SHELLEY P ST. CLAIRE , AUSTIN B ST. CLAIRE , BRADLEY ST. CLAIRE , CHYENNA M ST. CLAIRE , CODY R. ST. CLAIRE , HENRY ST. CLAIRE , SKYANN M. ST. JOHN , CHRISTA ST. JOHN , EMERSON D This may be related to Bug 7397 - Patron search from Checkout tab does 'contains' instead of 'starts_with' search.
This appears to be fixed in master. Barton could you re-test?
This was caused by the "Starts With" vs. "Contains" user search -- Bug 15930. That bug is closed, and I'm marking this one as a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 15930 ***