Tom,

I think the behaviour you described is normal, and it has nothing
with the IB_SearchPanel.
If you set the NOTRAILING attribute of the column, then it WILL
add your entries as STARTING [WITH], until you use wildcard
characters!
Try this:

SA_ACTION_NAME: emp
SA_DATASET:
SA_FORM: fEmp

It will find the records!

But if you try:

SA_ACTION_NAME: emp
SA_DATASET: q_emp
SA_FORM: fEmp

It will not find any record, because the "_" character in q_emp is a
wildcard character.
In this case a ...LIKE 'q_emp' will be added to the query.


Try also the following:

SA_ACTION_NAME: %emp
SA_DATASET:
SA_FORM:

The % character is a wildcard character, and the query cannot find
any record (...LIKE '%emp').

Hope this helps,

Regards, Zoli