RS v10.7 Private Collections search wildcard?

[Douglas Thompson]

So, the way that we're using RS currently is that, each time we get a set of photos from a particular event, those photos get uploaded as their own collection...with "YYYYMMDD" at the beginning of the collection name so that if anyone needs to see all of the photos from a particular event, they can easily do so. This also makes it so that just that collection can be shared outside of our RS users (say, if an academic department here wants to see photos from one of their awards events or whatever).

Which is all well and good...it works for our purposes exactly as we need it to.

Fast-forward, however, to several years of doing this, and there are some older collections that we want to purge from the system (which we can do by deleting the original files, so that their previews and metadata and whatnot are kept in the system, but the part that takes up the most filespace goes away...we have all of our photos backed up on multiple USB drives.

So today I was looking through our 83-page Collections list and noticed that, when I do a search on there for, say, "2017", it only returns the collections that have "2017" as a standalone word in their names...not any of the YYYYMMDD ones. So I tried doing the standard "add * to the end to make it a wildcard search" and it basically just spit out all collection names...all 83 pages of them. I tried a few things and could not get it to search for anything other than "standalone '2017'" collection names. Am I missing something? Maybe there's a config setting that can change this behavior or something? Because it makes it really hard to try to find 49 collections that have "2017" in their names (which is what phpMyAdmin lets me do as a wildcard search)

[Douglas Thompson]

So, any way of doing wildcard searches on collection names within RS? I just figured out how to accomplish what I want via phpMyAdmin and a RegEx search, but there will be a whole lot of manual work finding the collections and exporting their resources' ResourceIDs and whatnot.

Far better would be if I could do a collection search for, say, "2017", and have it come back with a list of all collections with "2017" in their titles...whether standalone or 2017MMDD, as mentioned above...