I just upgraded from 12.1.17 to the latest 15.3.7 release and something has changed with the Search component (V1).

My Salesforce users are having a harder time using the Search component to locate things. Before they could more liberally type partial or different names and still find what they were looking for, now things don’t show up that used to show up.

My Search component is configured to search “All Text Fields”

I did a little testing.

It looks like formula text fields are not included in the “All Text Fields” search, is that correct? Were they included before?

It also looks like the text typed here does not match unless there are exact matches. I think perhaps this is what changed. In other words if I search for “John Smith” it will not match an account that has 1 field with the value “John” and another field with the value “Smith”; I need to have a single field with the value “John Smith” for the account to be matched. I don’t believe it worked this way before.

Is there anything I can do here to enhance this to either include formula fields (short of creating a triggered flow to update a real text field…), or to get the search to operate more like it did in 12.1.17?