Search by character names in Advanced Title Search

@bderoes​ 😀

Add "Find: Exact matches" ??

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Hi @bderoes​ -

In this case the current logic is "Or".  In the meantime, thanks for the feedback, I have relayed the comments to the team who will review for future improvement considerations.

@bderoes​ We will confirm with the search team, but it appears that when performing a character search, only acting credits are considered in the "Cast or crew" filter.  For proof, this works fine and as expected -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?role=nm0000148&characters=jack%20ryan 

... and to further restrict to movies in which Harrison Ford played Jack Ryan -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&role=nm0000148&characters=jack%20ryan

or movies where Roger Moore played James Bond -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&role=nm0000549&characters=James%20Bond&sort=year,desc 

@Col_Needham​ But that restriction means that ATS will not find all the actors who played a role created by a particular writer. Is that really a limitation you want? It reduces ATS to doing what a user can do with ctrl-F on the Actor's page.

@bderoes​ I did not say that is what we wanted, merely how it appears to be behaving :-)

Bummer.

@bderoes​ A quick update on this … the restriction to actors/actresses is the intended behaviour, however, we are discussing a better option which would fix things both here and in the more general case. 

@Peter_pbn​ Yes, we agree (and the same with the ATS topic searches for trivia/quotes/etc).  It is on the list, however,  we have a growing backlog of issues at the moment due to capacity constraints, so it may take a while.