title: Neo4J: Querying a node index (with wildcards) via the webadmin Data Browser
body: <p>Using a default index, one can do <code>nodeIndex.get("message", "Hello")</code> for exact matches, or <code>nodeIndex.query("message", "Hel*")</code> for approximate Lucene-based queries. This works correctly for me from Java.</p>
  
  <p>But how do I do approximate queries through the webadmin Data Browser interface? Exact matches work fine, such as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>node:index:nodeIndex:message:"Hello"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but I can't see how to do the wildcard queries. The syntax is shown in the pop-up help panel as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>node:index:[index]:[query]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but I don't know what to put for the <code>[query]</code> part, and can't find any examples of this in the <a href="http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/snapshot/index.html" rel="nofollow">manual</a> or the <a href="http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">wiki</a>. Have tried the following without success:</p>
  
  <pre><code>node:index:nodeIndex:"message:Hel*"
  node:index:nodeIndex:message:"Hel*"
  node:index:nodeIndex:"Hel*"
  node:index:nodeIndex:Hel*
  </code></pre>